I believe that FGCU, Farleigh Dickenson, Holy Cross and a few others in the play in games are conference tournament champions.
I'm looking for other opinions on this, but it has always been my feeling that automatic qualifiers should never have to play in the play-in games. I just feel like they did exactly what they had to do to get into the tournament and are being punished for it.
I understand that many (if not most) of the automatic qualifiers are worse teams than just about all of the at-large teams, but it seems to me they were given a task of winning their conference tourney and accomplished the goal. They should not be forced to play-in to the tournament. I feel that the lowest rated at-large teams should be in the play-ins. Just my opinion though.