(02-06-2015 10:25 AM)hktribefan Wrote:  Fortunately I don't think the committee has time to look over the resume of every AQ team, so they go based off of RPI.

Not altogether true. Each committee member is assigned 3-4 conferences to be "experts" for. The committee member has to attend or watch as many games as possible. To the committee, RPI is a handy tool but the eye test weighs pretty heavily also, even for the conference champ. Sometimes that's how mistakes happen too in seeding for AQ's and at-large bids, of course. If the loudest person in the room advocates for a particular team from his conference, sometimes that team gets a more favorable seed than another team.

The "expert" for the CAA definitely notices the strong level of overall play in the league, and the conference has been rewarded in the past for that.