ESPN, Yahoo Sports, CBS sports and Fox Sports have, to this point, kept the BYU Basketball team out of the NCAA Tournament discussion.
Although it is a committee that makes the final decision of who makes and misses the tournament, the computer based ranking systems RPI, BPI play a role in how they vote. And they are giving the Cougars a lot more respect than you may think.
Every year there are 32 Conference Champions that receive automatic births into the NCAA Tournament. After that there are 36 at-large bids given to teams who do not win their Conference Tournaments but still show a strong resume.