Mike sez:
 
>It does raise another question, though.  Does the new practice of
>insuring bids to the reg season and tourney winners mean that the
>previous requirement for each conference to have two teams receive
>bids, is no longer there?  In other words, a conference could now
>receive only one bid if the same team wins both the reg season and
>tourney, and no other team earns an at-large bid?
 
I doubt it would happen more than once.  If a conference received only
one bid out of twelve, the ensuing outrage would be sufficient to
guarantee that the rules would be changed the next year.  I need only
point to last year's playoffs, and Colorado College's absence, as an
example.
 
-- Erik