Assuming the A10 announcement is forthcoming the conference would look like this.
Richmond 10-4: Conference Champs 4 NCAA Tourneys
St. Joes 13-3: playing Hobart today for conference title.
Hobart 7-5: playing St. Joes for conference title. 5 NCAA Appearances, Former D3 Mt. Union of LAX
High Point 7-8: SOCON semis, 1 NCAA Appearance
UMASS 8-6: 20 NCAA appearances, 3 final 4s. 2006 Runner-Up
St. Bonaventure 11-3: New program but improving in wins each season.
UMASS played in the best conference while id argue the rest of these teams wouldn't win the SOCON but are clearly better programs than the bottom half of the SOCON.
Id say this is a better conference and it'll be us and UMASS jockeying for the title in the beginning. I don't know how good HPU is going to be with Nolting finally graduating. I hope that this lights a fire and encourages one or two other schools in the A10 to add it since they would have a conference home. Namely Davidson, VCU, GW, Duquense, or Forhdam. Its not like it takes forever to become a good program. Several ranked programs in the lax poll that didn't even exist 10 years ago.