(03-04-2018 12:52 AM)Wedge Wrote:  The NCAA has it backwards.

NCAA tournament autobids should go to regular season conference champs, and NIT autobids should go to conference tournament winners who don't get invited to the NCAA tournament.

It can't logically be that way, because otherwise the conference tournaments would have no point - a tournament played after the season must mean that by winning in it you are progressing "towards" something, and if there's no auto-bid at the end of the rainbow, there's nothing being progressed towards, and there's no reason to have a format that eliminates losers and advances winners. The winner of the conference tournament has to 'advance' to something more advanced than itself, that being the NCAA tournament.

The conference regular season logically feeds into a tournament, because it provides the seedings for it. But there would be no progressively logical basis for a conference tourney played after the season if it didn't result in a bid to a bigger tournament.

The only way your scenario would make sense is if the conference tournament was played before the regular season, and somehow fed in to the regular season, gave the winner a regular season advantage of some kind.