If you cut it down to size, one can make a very compelling argument that A&M should’ve gotten a National Seed, thus giving the State of Texas two of them. Maybe this is the committee subtweeting the notion of conference tournaments: that the regular season is damn important. TCU won their Power 5 conference; a conference that put 3, nearly 4, teams into Omaha last year. But even that is a similar trap that the SEC uses. The bottom line is that if you want to secure a place, rely on winning your conference, not its reputation.
This isn’t Pepperdine from last year.