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VolsSportsFan said:
He could technically be correct. His original post said no conference championships. Tyndall won 2 conference tournaments. I don't know if they won the regular season conference championship or not, or if the OVC recognizes the regular season or the tournament champion as the conference champion. The SEC recognizes the regular season champion as the conference champion.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Valley_Conference#Basketball

If Wikipedia is correct, they have a Regular Season and a Tournament Champion, and Morehead did not win the regular season championship either year they won the tournament championship.
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The SEC tourney champs receive the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
 
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IndianapolisVol said:
Tournament Champ means more than regular season championship IMO
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Really never have understood that reasoning.
You can go undefeated for 30 games then have an off day and be defeated by a 500 team and miss the NCAA.

Don't make much sense to me. always been such tho.
 
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IndianapolisVol said:
Tournament Champ means more than regular season championship IMO
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Depends on the conference to me.

For the lower conferences, yeah obviously because that gets you in the NCAAT. But for the bigger conferences like the SEC, give me the regular season any day. If you win the regular season I really don't care what happens over a 4 day tournament.
 
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calban said:
Really never have understood that reasoning.
You can go undefeated for 30 games then have an off day and be defeated by a 500 team and miss the NCAA.

Don't make much sense to me. always been such tho.
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This.

Although I get that you can sort of make the same argument about the NCAAT. You can be great all season and then lose to a team that 9 times out of 10 you beat. It's the nature of the beast.

It's more the problem of expanding the field too much.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
This.

Although I get that you can sort of make the same argument about the NCAAT. You can be great all season and then lose to a team that 9 times out of 10 you beat. It's the nature of the beast.

It's more the problem of expanding the field too much.
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Especially for a sub mid-major. It would really suck if your team was undefeated all year, got sick from bad burritos and blew one game therefore missing an invite.
 
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BruinVol said:
Did we split the 2 regular season games?


Head to head is plenty fair to break a tie if it's 2 teams
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I think they did... haven't looked it up though. Had KY swept I think they would have taken the NIT bid. There wasn't a tie breaker in place. It was at the NCAAT's discretion which team to invite. They only took one per conference. TN's NCAAT history would look totally different if they took 2 when TN was the perennial runner up to KY.

Edit: I'm combining the 70-71 season and the 71-72 season. At the end of 71-72 TN lost to KY in the last game by one point. They were swept by KY, tied them as conference champs, and then turned down the NIT bid disappointed that had they won that last game, they would have been outright SEC champions. KY split with TN in 70-71 and TN went to the NIT as SEC runner up.
 
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Sometimes a break is well needed. I will not respond to any comments that I feel no need to. No personal stuff, just straight basketball.

Ohio State transfer Austin Grandstaff told ESPN that Butler, St. John's, Oregon, Tennessee, Nebraska, SMU, others have already reached out.
 
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Dallasbowlin said:
Sometimes a break is well needed. I will not respond to any comments that I feel no need to. No personal stuff, just straight basketball.

Ohio State transfer Austin Grandstaff told ESPN that Butler, St. John's, Oregon, Tennessee, Nebraska, SMU, others have already reached out.
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Welcome back bro. You have my respect for coming back!
 
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