Big Dance Officials

[Mark Dexter]

Originally posted by johnSandlin

I can say that all of the officials that worked a conference championship game get an automatic invite to the tournament.

Are you sure about this?

I know each automatic bid conference is guaranteed at least one official from their regular staff to work the tourney, but does it extend to conference championships, too? (32 auto-bid conferences x 3 officials = 96 officials. Even with some overlap, that means there would be very few 'at-large' ref bids.)