2007-03-07 10:32:45 · 5 answers · asked by Patrick W 2 in Sports ➔ Basketball
I believe this happened five or six years ago when there was a new conference created. I don't know which conference it was, but their champion had to get an automatic berth, and I'm guessing the committee didn't want to take away a spot from a more deserving at-large team, so they just made it a play-in game.
On a slight tangent, the play-in game is crap. Two small schools win their conference tournament for the right to go to the Big Dance, but only one school actually gets there. The other school gets to say they were eliminated in the play-in game by East Western South Central Northeastern State Tech. Some reward for a great conference tournament run...
2007-03-07 10:40:03 · answer #1 · answered by D-Low 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
At one point there were 33 conferences, only for a year or two. Now that the number of conferences as gone down, they still kept the extra team. The pig-tail game (normally between the 64th/65th ranked teams) decides who plays against the best number one. The game is normally played at a smaller location like Dayton, Ohio.
2007-03-07 10:58:12 · answer #2 · answered by miggity182 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
whilst the Mountain West and Western Athletic conferences chop up (after the two 3 hundred and sixty 5 days probationary era), the MWC replaced into granted the thirty first vehicle bid. somewhat than decrease the form of at-large bids to 33 like the ladies did, the boys purely stored the at-large pool at 34 and threw communities sixty 4 and sixty 5 interior the play-in. form of a dumb concept, yet they gets stomped by using the a million-seed besides...i'm somewhat unbiased in direction of the belief because it extremely basically concerns to the communities playing in it.
2016-10-17 12:37:18 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They opened it up to one more team a few years ago but usually they lose and the tourney continues
2007-03-07 10:36:36 · answer #4 · answered by badazz_51 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they have a game on weds to to determine the 64th team.
injoy the madness
2007-03-07 10:38:13 · answer #5 · answered by Michael B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋