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Middle Tennessee may not get a chance at a third straight year with an NCAA Tournament win after a shocking 71-68 overtime loss to eighth-seeded Southern Miss in the Conference USA Tournament. That is easily the worst loss of the season for the Blue Raiders because the Golden Eagles RPI is below 200. They also have two home, Quadrant 3 losses to Belmont and Marshall. The latter was on the final day of the regular season, meaning that MTSU ended the year with its two worst losses of the season. They do not have a win over an at-large quality team.  The Blue Raiders are now my first team out, but they could move back in.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/bracketology-update-alabama-moves-into-field-of-68-middle-tennessee-falls-out/

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9 hours ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:

I'm normally all about the underdog, but . . .

MUTS would have had a shot at a decent seed in the Dance if they would have won the C-USA Tourney.  Which means they would have had a better shot at an upset win.  Which means more credibility for the conference and $$ for all of us.

Exactly

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9 hours ago, outoftown said:

This is unfortunate for the conference.

That said, C-USA really needs to improve its OOC game to the point of where a tournament upset does not reduce the number of bids to one.

My beef is this:

CUSA has had upsets in 3 or 4 straight ncaa tournaments. THAT is what should garner your conference more bids. When some major conferences consistently get 4 or 5 bids and only 1 team advances past the second round, that's when you know the system is flawed. 

In the fifa world cup, confederation allocation is determined by strength of each confederations (generally continents or continent groupings) teams. Perform well, get more spots.

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Joe Lunardi listed MTSU a week or so ago as one of the few mid-major programs that does not have to win their conference tourney to make it into the field. This COULD be a monetary blessing in disguise for CUSA.

 

Edit: And to solidify this a bit, he still has Middle in the tournament as an 11 seed in one of the play in games as of this morning. He has ODU winning the CUSA tournament and making it in as a 13 seed.  

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3 minutes ago, Ben Gooding said:

Joe Lunardi listed MTSU a week or so ago as one of the few mid-major programs that does not have to win their conference tourney to make it into the field. This COULD be a monetary blessing in disguise for CUSA. 

He still had them in his last four in this morning on ESPN. He said MTSU and Oklahoma are essential locks only leaving 2 more spots open and one may go to Bama.

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2 minutes ago, MeanGreenTexan said:

If they don't get into the NCAA's, they stand a very good chance of winning the NIT.

Only if they get up for it.  That's always the thing with teams that just miss the NCAA's....do they get excited for the NIT?

 

 Some do, many don't.

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