Look at the basketball tourney, those questions still come up. Does
Southwest Missouri State at 23-2 or Michigan at 17-13 deserve to be in.
 
Looking at last year, I think that a team like QU deserves that spot for
their play over an at-large like Denver.
 
Eric Burton wrote:
>
> >
> > I'd oppose expanding to 14, if it just meant that the two slots went to
> > autobids from the MAAC and CHA.  All that would do would make the byes
> more
> > controversial, but would not allow in any arguably deserving teams that
> > didn't make it under the field of 12.
> >
> > I think that the NCAA should either allow a larger ratio for sports with
> > fewer sponsoring institutions or forget the autobids and just go for the
> > best teams.
>
>     This is going to open a can of worms, because you are going to have
> teams from the MACC and the CHA getting into the tourney would not if they
> were in the other leagues and you are also are going have teams staying home
> that would have been in the tourney otherwise if it wasn't for the auto
> tourney bid for winning the league title, which will bring you back to the
> argument some had last year does QU deserved to be in the tourney over a
> Denver or OSU or a team like RPI. So I believe they are going to have to
> expand to the 16 team tourney.
>
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