IMO....
7 SR appearances total in 11 years (5 of them by 2 teams) by these Conferences tells the real sad story.
If you took the Shockers out of the MVC and put them in the Big 10 you would have to put OSU, Minnesota and Michigan in the MVC to compensate.
Wichita States program is so much better than any in the Big 10 that there IS NO comparison.
CPLZ, using your own "generation" theory, the Big 10 has been D1 irrelevant since at least 1970.
Wichita has barely missed a beat by comparison while Creighton has had much more to brag about since 1970 than the entire Big Ten.
In the end both conferences are middle muddles that have been blown by in recent years by Conferences from the south and west and even lately, the East! They both depend heavily on their top 2 or 3 teams to get any recognition at all. The one team with recognition that does come to the fore is the Shocker's.
The only way either conference (outside of WSU) will ever get back in the D1 limelight is if they move the season to summer. That would be fair but it's not going to happen.