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Message: [QUOTE="businesslawyer, post: 3466298, member: 55"] O.K., let me spell it out for you. The Valley's tourney champion gets an automatic bid, no matter who it is (hence, my use of the word "automatic"). Any team that doesn't win the tourney is in the pool of teams that might be considered for an at-large selection. If Northern Iowa won the tournament, the Valley was a one-bid league as no one else would be considered for an at large. Because Northern Iowa did not win the Valley, it will be considered for an at large and there is thus one more school that the selection committee needs to determine is not as deserving as us. This was really necessary? Where a small conference has one team that is clearly the best, and the only team in the league good enough to compete for an at-large selection, you want it to win its conference tournament, not lose it. [/QUOTE]