If I were president, I would issue an executive order dictating that if your conference is too large to have a tournament with all its members, it's too large and needs to kick out some schools posthaste. That's an executive order I think we all can get behind.
My thought is just go full Indiana and let all 356+ in. Only takes a partial opening round and then 2 rounds after that to get to 64. Most of the one-bid tourneys are over after tonight and we still have a week to Selection Sunday.
The Big East, which had THREE Final Four teams in 1985, says hold my beer. Let's see if the SEC crashes and burns again in the NCAA tournament before anointing them.
And how many times did the Pac-6-8-10-12 send multiple teams to the Final Four? That would be zero. And between 2001 and 2024, only one non-UCLA Pac-12 team made a Final Four. Thanks for playing, 2017 Oregon. That's some seriously consistently "shit the bed in the NCAA Tournament" basketball for a conference that touted itself as the "conference of champions."