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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. --- --- Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] Cabletron Systems, Inc. *HMM* 11/13/93 <<<<< Color Voice of the Merrimack Warriors (station TBA for 94-95) >>>>>