This will be an interesting change

Anything that makes the WAC regular season carry additional weight seems fair and is fine with us:

WAC proposes top seeds be placed into semifinals
Ferd Lewis
Honolulu Advertiser

The Western Athletic Conference is studying a proposal that would give its top two seeded men's and women's basketball teams byes into the semifinals of the conference tournament.

The plan, which was discussed at the annual WAC Council spring meetings that concluded yesterday in Phoenix, could be voted on as early as next month by the Board of Directors and enacted in time for the tournament in March in Las Vegas...

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