major conferences vs mid-major (week 10)

I'm in the mood to talk about the big dance. With the NCAA basketball tournament the question has raised again do you put the 65 best teams in the tournament or do you award the mid-major conference champions. This year that question was bigger than ever with the Big East being as competitive as it was this year it is had to explain why some of the teams didn't make it when they were better than some of the teams that did because they won their little conference championship. A example of this would be Notre Dame they play in the Big East and beat the number 1 overall seed Louisville by 32 points this year, and didn't make it while a team who plays in the WCC and was 19-13 did. This doesn't make sense, just because a no name team won a no name conference championship doesn't mean they are good enough to with the big dogs in the big dance.

So with all the teams that are good enough to play in the big dance but get left out because of the smaller conference teams are in the tournament insted. The NIT tournament was created for a reason. I think that