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Message: [QUOTE="Gurleyman, post: 3864208, member: 175"] UConn’s men have a similar counterpoint. They won the national championship after a 9-9 conference season. They won the BE Tournament anyway, but before they got an auto bid they won a tournament in Maui over Michigan State and Kentucky and won at Texas, all of which were in the top 10. The Big East was exceptionally strong that year, so 9-9 wasn’t so bad (although diappointing), but one more close loss making them 8-10 wouldn‘t make them less capable of a championship. The NCAA does have a rule for most sports that you can’t be below .500 [U]overall[/U] and get an at large bid. This comes up in softball from time to time, when the SEC is really tough and a team that is, say, 24-26 will squeeze in a doubleheader late in the year with some local low major to get up to .500. But a rule like that for just a team’s conference record would punish only teams from the very strongest conferences in the country arbitrarily, so it almost certainly wouldn’t pass the ncaa legislative bodies. [/QUOTE]