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Small-School MCBB Teams You Need to Watch at Least Once Before the NCAA Tournament

Florida Atlantic Owls

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The Florida Atlantic Owls have appeared in the NCAA tournament just once since joining the Division I ranks during the 1993-94 season, going one-and-done as a No. 15 seed in the 2002 tournament.

With a 26-3 record this year, they have already secured their second 20-win season in team history, and they have the best chance of receiving an at-large bid of any of the teams highlighted in this article.

The Owls rank in the top 50 nationally in both KenPom's adjusted offensive efficiency (35th) and adjusted defensive efficiency (43rd), and they have a pair of Quadrant 1 road wins against Florida and North Texas. Equally important, they have taken care of business against lesser opponents with a 21-0 record against Quadrant 3 and 4 opponents.

FAU does not have one go-to scorer, but it's one of the nation's best three-point shooting teams with 9.9 made threes per game (12th in NCAA) and a 37.4 percent clip from beyond the arc (36th in NCAA).

North Texas (51st in NCAA Evaluation Tool) and UAB (57th in NET) both potentially pose a tough test in the Conference USA tournament.

 

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1 hour ago, Cougar King said:

All 1-bid conferences are considered small.

There are better, more appropriate descriptors.  IMO, this is either lazy reporting, or trolling.

2 of these listed have 30K+ enrollment.

The author himself is a graduate of a community college.  Come on, dude!  Stop being lazy.

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3 hours ago, Cougar King said:

All 1-bid conferences are considered small.

A "Small-School" Conference is not literally correct.  In fact, the size of a school has no relevance at all to Conference membership or the basketball team's ability.  How large is Gonzaga, Marquette, Xavier...?

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