Left out of the NCAA Tournament: Indiana, Boise State, West Virginia, Ohio State and more

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Indiana won’t play another game with retiring coach Mike Woodson after being left out of the NCAA Tournament.

The Hoosiers (19-13) have no plans to play elsewhere this season after being one of the first four teams left out of the 68-team NCAA field revealed Sunday, along with 24-win Boise State, West Virginia and fellow Big Ten team Ohio State.

After Indiana won five of its last seven games in the regular season to get in the mix, the bubble burst after losing to Oregon in its only Big Ten Tournament game.

The 66-year-old Woodson, who has been under fire most of the past two years, announced in February that he was stepping down at his alma mater at the end of the season. The Hoosiers missed the NCAAs last season after making it in his first two seasons, then ending their first stretch of four missed NCAAs in a row since 1968-72.

Boise State (24-10) made it to the Mountain West Conference Tournament championship game, but wasn’t one of the league’s four teams that moved on to the NCAA Tournament. Colorado State got the league’s automatic berth with 69-56 win over the Broncos in the title game.

The Broncos had been to the NCAA Tournament the past three seasons, and 15th-season coach Leon Rice spoke after the MWC title game about his team’s continued aggressive scheduling and “great wins” this season over Clemson and Saint Mary’s. He also lamented how the selection committee might look at a single loss in November at the end of an early-season tournament.

“So because, on the third day of a tournament, Boston College hits a step-back 3 to beat us, does that mean we’re not tournament-worthy? I mean when you’re breaking it down, ‘Well, they’ve got this one (bad loss).’ That happened in November with a different team basically than what we are now,” Rice said. “So when you’re on the bubble … it’s a fine line that you’re on, and one shot can say you’re good enough to be in it, or you’re not good enough to be in it.”

West Virginia (19-13) had six…

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Author : STEPHEN HAWKINS

Publish date : 2025-03-17 02:01:00

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