[Austroturf]

Sadly, I was relieved to see we got more than 1 bid. THAT is how bad it has gotten. I thought a worse case scenario would be ASU or UW winning the conference tourney and everyone else getting locked out. 3 bids only is embarrassing. But only 1 bid would be historically bad and perhaps put the Pac12 on a difficult to get out of negative feedback loop.

Good point.  What is doubly embarrassing (even considering that the Pac-12 did manage to get three teams into the tournament) is the seeding: nothing higher than a #9.  If I take the top three of each Power 5 conference, here is how they compare:

ACC: #1, #1, #1
B1G: #2, #2, #3
SEC: #2, #2, #3
Big 12: #3, #4, #4
Pac 12: #9, #11, #12

And our top three constitute our only three.  Even the AAC fared better:
Houston #3, Cincinnati #7 and UCF #9 (Yes, that's Johnny Dawkins' team), with Temple getting a play-in game at #11.

[Austroturf]

Sadly, I was relieved to see we got more than 1 bid. THAT is how bad it has gotten. I thought a worse case scenario would be ASU or UW winning the conference tourney and everyone else getting locked out. 3 bids only is embarrassing. But only 1 bid would be historically bad and perhaps put the Pac12 on a difficult to get out of negative feedback loop.

Good point.  What is doubly embarrassing (even considering that the Pac-12 did manage to get three teams into the tournament) is the seeding: nothing higher than a #9.  If I take the top three of each Power 5 conference, here is how they compare:

ACC: #1, #1, #1
B1G: #2, #2, #3
SEC: #2, #2, #3
Big 12: #3, #4, #4
Pac 12: #9, #11, #12

And our top three constitute our only three.  Even the AAC fared better:
Houston #3, Cincinnati #7 and UCF #9 (Yes, that's Johnny Dawkins' team), with Temple getting a play-in game at #11.