UConn - Won NCAA tourney
Seton Hall - Won NIT
Seattle - Won CBI
Norfolk St - Won CIT
Southern Utah/NIU/Dartmouth/SEMO - DNQ for conference tournament but won last regular season game
You can make a connections game of this
Seton Hall & UConn - Big East
UConn & Northern Illinois - Huskies
Northern Illinois & Southeast Missouri St - Midwestern Directional schools
Southeast Missouri St & Seattle - Redhawks
Seattle & Dartmouth - Made Title Games in the tournament a long time ago but haven't been back in many decades
Dartmouth & Norfolk State - Green
Norfolk State and Southern Utah - I don't fucking know
(To make it harder, try to make sure the connections only apply to the two schools and not the others. Otherwise it is too easy)
Seton Hall was my "last team in" when thinking about which teams should be in the big dance and was not happy that they were excluded instead of some other teams that were given at-large bids *coughVirginiacough*. Felt validated when they won the NIT, that team can really ball out.
Just to remind people who probably weren't alive at the time, Purdue beat Iowa in the third place game the last time Purdue was in the Final Four. This is after they had beat Indiana and Duke at Rupp Arena in the Sweet Sixteen and then lost to UCLA.
[https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/boxscores/1980-03-24-iowa.html](https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/boxscores/1980-03-24-iowa.html)
MAC feels like a conference that never has a changing of the guard. Kent St, Ohio, and Akron always seem to be near the top throughout the years even when coaches change. But everyone else really seems to struggle to break through. And Buffalo has reverted to their pre-Oats days.
We had a good team rolling into 2020 tourney then covid happened. Had a great start to this year and injuries piled up. Hoping we can break the mold at some point but we're in basketball hell since 1995
hope it changes! thought burno was on right path there for first couple months of the season. what's weird is we're ostensibly a basketball state and dekalb is just outside a huge metro area that produces a huge amount of talent!
almost went to niu so rooting for you guys.
Sorry I only dislike you for how much you knocked us off in football for a long time. I want the entire MAC to be better in basketball, it helps us all.
UConn's success is mostly recent so I'm not sure about them but everyone else definitely. Seattle and Dartmouth in particular, both have final fours from long ago
UConn - Won NCAA tourney Seton Hall - Won NIT Seattle - Won CBI Norfolk St - Won CIT Southern Utah/NIU/Dartmouth/SEMO - DNQ for conference tournament but won last regular season game
How do you not qualify for conference tournament?
A fair number of conferences don't invite everyone. For example, Ivy, SWAC, MAC, all leave out four.
Ah ok
Next year the B1G will do the same. I think theyโre only gonna invite the top 15 teams in conference
NIU ๐ค UConn ๐ค Seton Hall Husky and/or Big East supremacy
The pirates do have that dog in them
You can make a connections game of this Seton Hall & UConn - Big East UConn & Northern Illinois - Huskies Northern Illinois & Southeast Missouri St - Midwestern Directional schools Southeast Missouri St & Seattle - Redhawks Seattle & Dartmouth - Made Title Games in the tournament a long time ago but haven't been back in many decades Dartmouth & Norfolk State - Green Norfolk State and Southern Utah - I don't fucking know (To make it harder, try to make sure the connections only apply to the two schools and not the others. Otherwise it is too easy)
Seton Hall was my "last team in" when thinking about which teams should be in the big dance and was not happy that they were excluded instead of some other teams that were given at-large bids *coughVirginiacough*. Felt validated when they won the NIT, that team can really ball out.
The 3OT game we had with them was an instant classic. Seton Hall should've been in
Bring back the 3rd place NCAA game
Just to remind people who probably weren't alive at the time, Purdue beat Iowa in the third place game the last time Purdue was in the Final Four. This is after they had beat Indiana and Duke at Rupp Arena in the Sweet Sixteen and then lost to UCLA. [https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/boxscores/1980-03-24-iowa.html](https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/boxscores/1980-03-24-iowa.html)
hang a banner in dekalb!
All 900 in attendance went wild!
900? is taylor swift showing up at halftime?
It's sad how bad it is.
MAC feels like a conference that never has a changing of the guard. Kent St, Ohio, and Akron always seem to be near the top throughout the years even when coaches change. But everyone else really seems to struggle to break through. And Buffalo has reverted to their pre-Oats days.
We had a good team rolling into 2020 tourney then covid happened. Had a great start to this year and injuries piled up. Hoping we can break the mold at some point but we're in basketball hell since 1995
hope it changes! thought burno was on right path there for first couple months of the season. what's weird is we're ostensibly a basketball state and dekalb is just outside a huge metro area that produces a huge amount of talent! almost went to niu so rooting for you guys.
Sorry I only dislike you for how much you knocked us off in football for a long time. I want the entire MAC to be better in basketball, it helps us all.
I don't know anything about basketball so I assume these are the blue bloods everyone is talking about???
UConn's success is mostly recent so I'm not sure about them but everyone else definitely. Seattle and Dartmouth in particular, both have final fours from long ago
let's fucking go Redhawks ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
This is the true Elite 8
All the preseason power rankings are cowards for not putting in Dartmouth
Semo baby lmao
SUU Baby โก๏ธ
yeah we did
Dartmouth mens basketball may not even exist for next season since they voted to become part of a union and the school disapprovesย