Many teams miss out on the NCAA Tournament every year. Some are very close to getting in. Some are agonizingly close. Here is a list of 16 of the very nearest misses for the NCAA Tournament since the tourney’s expansion to 64 teams in 1985.
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2018-19 Conference USA Post-Mortem
Old Dominion won the regular season and tournament titles in Conference USA, which was actually an improved conference again but whose razor-thin difference between many squads mean it didn’t always show.
2017-18 Conference USA Post-Mortem
Middle Tennessee State, Old Dominion and Marshall led a vastly improved Conference USA this year, one that yet again pulled a surprise in the NCAA Tournament.
2016-17 Conference USA Post-Mortem
Middle Tennessee State followed up its stunning 2016 NCAA Tournament victory with a thoroughly dominant season, easily the class of Conference USA in 2016-17.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Tuesday marks the 39th day of the college basketball season. Incredibly, almost every NCAA Division I team has either played one-third of its regular season schedule, or is coming up on the mark in the next few days.
The Morning Dish – Friday, November 4, 2016
As we’ve steadfastly pointed out in the past (and probably will again sometime before the season starts), the college basketball season starts too early, and the sport really has a poorly planned way to start the year, opening with a host of guarantee games in what is still the heart […]
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, November 24, 2015
With the Maui Invitational, Kris Dunn, Ben Simmons and a renewal of an old Big 8 rivalry, Monday night saw a number of heavy hitters in action. Incredibly, though, a school that has never been a household name just keeps forcing itself into the national conversation, too.
2014-15 Conference USA Post-Mortem
Under coach Jerod Haase, UAB put together a terrific in-season turnaround this year and showed Conference USA what it can be capable of on the national stage.
The Morning Dish – Friday, January 30, 2015
It’s rare when we see TV networks do something even remotely outside the box when it comes to scheduling, so yesterday’s announcement of the Big 12/SEC Challenge moving to January qualifies as big news.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Some will call it a masterpiece; others may still think of the game more as an eye sore. Either way, what Wisconsin did Tuesday night is something extraordinary, even by its own lofty standards. The Badgers pounded Iowa 82-50 Tuesday night in as ruthlessly efficient an offensive performance as you’ll […]
