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[QUOTE="Hoo's That, post: 2117481, member: 3609"]
There's very little new under the sun.

The ACC was the first conference to have a tournament.  Every other conference (probably until the formation of the BE) gave their autobid to their regular season champion.  The other conferences that were always D-1 started to come around to liking the idea when they saw how much money came to the conferences and the schools ("You honestly think you're getting ACC tournament tickets for a $25 donation to the scholarship fund?  Best think again!"). When the CBS money started pouring in, a LOT of schools that couldn't spell "Division 1" before suddenly wanted to move up.  The price of allowing Monmouth, Siena, et al., to move up to D-1 from D-3 was to have a conference tournament.  When the NCAA took over the NIT, they decided to invite any regular season winner of the one-bid conferences to the NIT if they lost in their tournament.  Since the expansion of D-1 to include all these former D-3 teams, there has been an on-going debate over whether it's better to invite the regular season champions or the 8th-place team (just to throw out a number) from a P5 conference.  IMO, people love to see these former D-3 teams humiliate a power in the first round (Here's looking at you, dook!), but want them all gone after the first weekend is over.  At one time there was a debate about instituting a "50% Rule".  One version was "No team with a less than .500 record in-conference could get a bid until all regular season champions were accommodated with bids ."  The other version was "No more than 50% of the teams in a conference could get bids."
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