The question comes down to something like this: If you were to allow UTA to play, say, a Big East conference schedule, could they do well enough that even after accumulating a bunch of losses, they could make the tourney because they wouldn't be disqualified by any "bad losses" (since the committee is going to view just about any conference loss as okay to take)? Conversely, if you were to put a team like Providence into the Sun Belt, would they run the table (or come close enough) so that no one could disqualify them due to too many of those bad losses?