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[QUOTE="domestu, post: 4988151, member: 1089"]
Thirty-two conference tournament champs make the Big Dance now. The tourney might expand to 96 in the future, but allowing multiple schools from the Southland, SWAC, Patriot, MEAC, Horizon, Summit and other small conferences is the last thing most college hoops fans want to see, and the major conferences would never go for it. The Atlantic 10 has far better teams than those leagues but often only gets one school into the NCAAs. The third or fourth best team in the Atlantic 10 would dominate the schools in the Big Sky.

Bids to the Big Dance should always be based around getting the best teams in any given year. Additional bids to conferences that have had past success in the NCAAs might result in the PAC-12 receiving 5 bids next month. Florida Atlantic, Memphis, Wichita State, Temple and Charlotte have had Final Four runs, but that doesn't mean the American Athletic Conference deserves any extra bids this year.

The NCAA Tournament is discussing future expansion, but it's hard to see that leading to a lot more teams from the mid-majors and minor conferences getting in. The overriding target of the power conferences is to get a bigger slice of the pie and expanding the NCAA field will result in most of those additional bids going to the majors.
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