It depends. In the past, there was no conference tournament
Posted on: May 22, 2017 at 15:35:58 CT
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and thus, by default, the best regular-season record earned you an NCAA tournament bid.
In those days, the titles were meaningful.
However, conference tournaments are what now decide who the conference champion is, and thus who receives the automatic NCAA tournament bid.