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Message: [QUOTE="TDTOrange, post: 1687134, member: 509"] Not necessarily. Depends on how good those auto-bid teams are. Just as an example, I'll use Syracuse an Monmouth. Since both of these teams are considered on the bubble, they're relatively similar in profile. Had Monmouth won their tournament and gotten an auto-bid, they may be ranked in the 1-68 seed list right around where the last of the at larges appear. So they could get slotted at about a 11 or 12 seed, and the last of the at-larges would also fall around the 11 or 12 seed line. All 32 conferences get an auto-bid. When UVa or UNC wins tonight, they get the ACC auto-bid and will be ranked somewhere in the top 4, just because that's how good those teams are. The loser will go in as an at-large and likely be slotted no lower than 6-8th overall. Once you're in the field of 68, it doesn't matter how you got there (except the bottom 4 of each category are slotted for the extra game in Dayton). [/QUOTE]