Originally Posted by
Chris4UNC
In my mind if anything should be changed it should be that regular season champs should get the automatic bids. Yes, I know, they go to the NCAA anyway...at least that is what you think. The smaller conferences often see their conference regular season champs sitting at home while a cellar dweller that ran off 3 games or so in row in three days ends up in the NCAA field. That my friend is totally unfair!
I think conference tournament games should simply be seen as games on the schedule and taken into consideration as part of a teams total body of work. In other words a team that is, say, 7-23 should not go to the NCAA just because 3 of those wins brought them a conference tourny title. If UNC would have rattled off 4 wins they would have finished the season at 20-15. In my opinion they still would have been hard pressed to get in the NCAA unless those 4 wins would have come against the highest seeded opponents possible.