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[QUOTE="FireballPhil, post: 5012194, member: 553"]
I would venture to say your point two is the reason point three exists. As teams get better throughout the season, it makes sense that the team with the best conference record may not be the best come post season. But in a one game format for a championship game, can that really be determined?

So as far as the NIT, how about this for a stupid idea? Hold the NIT before brackets are released for the NCAA. Yes you would have to push back the NCAA a couple weeks. Using your idea that all conference and tourney champs are auto qualifiers, the best of the rest is invited to the NIT. The NIT can be expanded to whatever size you want, but the end result is say the top 16 teams join the auto qualifiers in the big dance. Use the NIT as a sort of large play in game system. Since they would only be narrowing it down to the top 16 or 32 teams-however many was deemed necessary- a full tournament isn't needed. This gives all the rest one final chance to prove they are one of the best teams regardless of what the net, rpi, whatever metric you want to use says about you.
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