The Boise State team waits to learn their NCAA college basketball tournament assignment during a Selection Sunday viewing party, Sunday, March 17, 2013, in Boise, Idaho. Boise State is scheduled to face La Salle in a play-in on Tuesday in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/The Idaho Statesman, Joe Jaszewski) LOCAL TV OUT (KTVB 7)
The Boise State team waits to learn their NCAA college basketball tournament assignment during a Selection Sunday viewing party, Sunday, March 17, 2013, in Boise, Idaho. Boise State is scheduled to face La Salle in a play-in on Tuesday in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/The Idaho Statesman, Joe Jaszewski) LOCAL TV OUT (KTVB 7)
Gonzaga players from left, Kevin Pangos (4), Gary Bell Jr. (5), Kelly Olynyk (13) and Elias Harris (20) react as they come off the court near the end of the game against Saint Mary's during the West Coast Conference tournament championship NCAA college basketball game, Monday, March 11, 2013, in Las Vegas. Gonzaga won 65-51. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
The little guys are getting some big respect in the NCAA tournament.
The selection committee handed out 11 at-large bids to teams from outside what are often called the power conferences. Some worried when the tournament expanded to 68 teams that it would just mean a few more mediocre teams from those leagues ? in football, they're the BCS conferences ? would get chosen over smaller schools that did not win their conference tournaments.
But 22 of those small school teams have made it over the last two years now.
The budding trend was most noticeable with the last four teams chosen for the field on Sunday. The committee chose La Salle, Boise State, St. Mary's and Middle Tennessee State over the likes of Tennessee, Kentucky and Iowa, all 20-win teams from bigger conferences.
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