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Message: [QUOTE="eebmg, post: 2631498, member: 7548"] And a better insight into fairness What Auriemma would like to see from the one-bid conferences is have their regular season champion, not the tournament winner, receive the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Three years ago, Bryant University from Rhode Island and Central Connecticut State shared the NEC regular season but it was St. Francis-Brooklyn, which was 12-18 and the No. 5 seed for the league tournament, that won three games to earn the NEC automatic bid. The Terriers would lose to UConn. "So for every celebration that you see when there's an upset in one of those conferences, there's a devastated bunch of kids who go, 'Those last five months meant nothing. Now we can't play in the NCAA tournament,' " Auriemma said. "We've been in that situation where we've played a team from a one-bid conference that had a losing record or 15-14 or whatever. It hurts the conference. It hurts those kids who spent five months proving they were the best team in the league. If you're going to get seven or eight teams from your league, that's one thing. If you're going to get one, you'd better send your best team. And your best team isn't always the one that had three good days. Sometimes it is." [/QUOTE]