NCAA Tournament 2017: Who was snubbed on Selection Sunday?

Every year, there are teams that people point to as missing out on an NCAA Tournament bid that they deserved. Who were this year’s “snubbed” teams?

When the brackets were revealed yesterday, there were mixed reactions.

Fans of teams that received at-large bids were excited, while fans of teams who missed the tournament voiced their anger.

With very few mid-major bubble teams losing in their conference tournaments, there was more room for the major-conference bubble teams. The only mid-major team that seemed to steal a bid was Rhode Island, who won the A-10 Championship.

What most analysts will agree on is that, for the most part, the Selection Committee got the field correct. They will argue that the seeding was wrong, but few analysts will argue that an undeserving team received a bid.

This is much different from last season, when the decision to invite Syracuse over Saint Mary’s and Monmouth raised many eyebrows.

The few teams that had questionably poor records had extremely tough schedules that lifted them into the NCAA Tournament. The at-large teams with poor schedules had fantastic wins, great records, and very few bad losses.

There are, however, a few teams that seemed to deserve a bid but were left out in favor of other teams. These teams will argue that they deserved to get into the tournament, but they each had a flaw that was understandably held against them.

We will discuss the three obvious “snubbed” teams and try to identify the reason they did not make the field of 68. These teams will each be a top seed in the NIT, giving them a chance to show they deserved a bid.