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Teams that can't get a bid continue to make these little, no-account conferences to get an auto bid. New ones seem to form every year. Each new conference takes away an at-large bid from a good team and adds another 16-seed level team into the tournament. I don't know what the total at-large bids was ten years ago, but it was probably closer to 40. I think that the NCAA finally just said enough is enough.
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