NCAA Basketball: 5 teams most likely to go winless in league play in 2019

Only truly bad NCAA Basketball teams can go winless all throughout conference play. Which ones are the most likely to do so this season?

When it comes to conference play in NCAA Basketball, every game is difficult to with. That’s because of the intensity, pressure, and amount of familiarity teams and coaches have with one another in the same respective conference. This is why upsets occur on a nearly nightly basis on the road and at home.

That’s why it’s so hard for teams to go unbeaten through the entire league schedule. The same goes the other way, with it being just as hard as teams to not win a single game, regardless of how good – or bad they are.

It’s rare, but teams have gone winless through conference play before in recent history. Last season, the Pittsburgh Panthers went 0-18 in the ACC, with just a couple of games having a margin of defeat below double-digits. Three other D-I teams had just one conference win (San Jose State, Northwestern State, and Chicago) in 2017-18.

Now midway through the 2018-19 season, 16 remain out of 353 D-I teams without a conference win to this point. There are obvious ones such as Vanderbilt in the SEC and Penn State in the Big Ten that will eventually win, as well as a pair of teams in the Atlantic Sun who both haven’t won yet either in Stetson and Kennesaw State who’ll automatically eliminate one.

But there are some who’ll be underdogs from here on out and will have to fight and claw for just a single win. Here are the five teams likeliest to not get another win this season.