(07-13-2018 08:26 AM)squeak Wrote:  I'd love to see the NCAA create a play-in game for those schools who've won their conference but not their tournament.

Way too many variables from year to year to make it work. Since we’re again primarily talking about mid and low majors, these conferences can protect themselves & boost their chances for additional revenue via a win(s) in the Dance by giving the reg season champ the auto bid. The conf tourney can still be meaningful by sending that winner to the NIT (if it’s not the reg season champ). Likewise a really good runner-up team - like Western Ky last year - has a chance to boost its at large prospects by winning the conf tourney and the reg season champ could influence its seeding. But the P7s have to have a limit on their bids before much really happens for the little guys.