I don't think we look at it in terms of how many teams qualify from one league. We made our selections based on teams, not conferences. And I also I think this selection disproves the myth that (the process is exclusively) RPI driven.

The discussion about any one league will not go into our discussions when it comes time to select the at-larges. We are going to look strictly at teams, what teams have done.

If a situation is tight, if we're comparing six to eight teams, and two of those six to eight teams have put together a schedule with rigor, and they've been balanced in terms of playing games both home and away from home, the tiebreaker in that kind of situation is going to go with the teams that have scheduled and have challenged themselves.

You have to face the reality that teams have conference records. So our job is to dig beneath the surface, even among teams that have the same conference records in some conferences.

The R.P.I. is one of those tools that we have at our disposal.

For us to qualify three teams for our country is huge. I'm extremely proud of ourselves and of them right now.