Can the selection committee just release a statement that says - unless you were outside looking in and steal a bid, the conference tournament has no bearing on your seeding.
Auburn entered the SEC as a boarderline 4/5 seed. They beat three NCAA tourney Teams (South Carolina, Miss. State and Florida) to win the SEC tourney and they are the lowest rated 4 seed in the tourney. No change at all. Got to beat the top seeds anyway if you want to advance so the seeding isn’t as important to me as the impression that is given that the tournaments impact seeding at all. They simply don’t.
Which makes you wonder if the pundits saying the were last 4 in or last 4 byes were missing something. It looks like the committee is really a fan of the quad system. A&M had a 7 & 7 quad 1 and 6-3 Quad 2. The problem I have with the quad system is the numbers are arbitrary.
The ding on Auburn was their poor Q1 3-7. They were on the unlucky end of the rankings. They had a a home win against #31 (Q1 is top 30) and a nutral win against #51 (Q1 is 50). So very close to being 5-7. Auburn had no losses outside of Q1