It shouldn't be but conference reputation ends up influencing rankings and ratings of teams.maybe I'm not following, but IMO, conference performance in the 2022 tournament should not be a factor in determining whether a given member of that conference makes the 2023 tourney.
You end up with X team from that conference who gets raised for beating a bunch of "tourney teams" and some losses excused for the same reason. Self-perpetuating more teams then end up in the tourney again the next year.