If the West Division winner didn't get an automatic #2 seed, it sounds to me like all teams were seeded based on their league records. So why did we have divisions this year?
We didn't want to play 22 league games?
You don't have to play every other team in the league twice. None of the 12+-team conferences without divisions play more than a 16 or 18-game schedule. Under this year's tourney seeding, divisions are meaningless except for scheduling purposes, so why not do away with the divisions and keep on scheduling the way they have or let some teams drop a home-and-home against a distant team in favor of a closer team. Toledo-BG and Fiami-BSU come to mind first.