pafan wrote:I believe the NIT permits the conferences to use their own tie-breaker rules to determine the auto-bid.
In which case, it should be the #1 seed into Arch Madness (using the head-to-head-to-head record tie breaker) has the auto bid to the NIT. But I doubt we would know for sure until it happened.
Whoever is the No.1 seed at Arch Madness would get the NIT auto-bid. This happened a few years ago when Wichita State and Illinois State tied for first. The Redbirds got the No.1 seed due to RPI and the Shox were the No.2.
The seeding this year for whatever ties, and I'm sure there will be several of them, is head to head competition then if that doesn't solve it, they go to NET. So when three teams are tied for fourth, there will be round robin to see how they did against each other. Then look at NET.