GBN and WWS were the only teams that took "sizeable" steps backward and to be honest, GBN is usually up and down year to year anyways. There were three teams bunched at the top, Geneva and then everyone else. If you look at non-cons, the conference went 10-6, if you remove Lake Park, 10-4. In those non-cons, they went 8-4 against playoff qualifiers, 8-3 if you remove LP. The conference is fine. SCN & WN have good paths to the semis, Geneva/SR can potentially give us a look into the strength of the conference early on. If Batavia and Hersey meet in round two we will have a really good idea of the strength of the conference. Batavia's three losses came to opponents with a combined record of 23-2. Just like last year when WWS was 5-4 and gave BR all they can handle, I expect all the Dukane teams to be tough in the playoffs.