[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by Jordan

So the way the tournament works is their are automatic bids for conference tournament winners (31), and then their are teams who did not win their tournaments but their "resume" get them in (37), making a field of 68. The weakest of the weak automatic bids get placed in play in games. Then, the last 4 "at large", the ones who didn't win conference tournaments but their resume got them in, are placed in play in games as well. They aren't always seeded as 11 seeds necessarily, but moreso the last few years. Presumptively, even though they are in play in games, they're power ranked higher than, say, a 14 seed, for example.

Ah, I see. Thanks.