I wrote:
>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?
 
What I should have realized was that Dave's answer was very clear.
His final sentence:
 
d>... If the two are one in the same, the committee will revert back to
d>the criteria to pick the second guaranteed league berth.
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
So each conference is still guaranteed 2 teams.  It's just that the
second team would be chosen by the same criteria that are used to
select any of the at-large teams - same as before.
 
Thanks, Dave, for pointing this out.
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Mike Machnik                                            [log in to unmask]
Cabletron Systems, Inc.                                    *HMM* 11/13/93
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