2019 NCAA Tournament: TCU, Indiana, Alabama among top snubs

2019 NCAA Tournament: TCU, Indiana, Alabama among top Selection Sunday snubs

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI - MARCH 13: Desmond Bane #1 of the TCU Horned Frogs celebrates with Kouat Noi #12 as the Horned Frogs defeat the Oklahoma State Cowboys during the first round game of the Big 12 Basketball Tournament at the Sprint Center on March 13, 2019 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images) /

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BLOOMINGTON, IN – MARCH 02: Aaron Henry #11 of the Michigan State Spartans and Aljami Durham #1 of the Indiana Hoosiers scramble for the loose ball during the game at Assembly Hall on March 2, 2019 in Bloomington, Indiana. (Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images) /

No. 4 Indiana Hoosiers

Indiana is another team to pick up quite a few quality wins, but couldn’t quite snap a losing streak mid-season which led to a ton of overall losses. The Hoosiers looked to be in excellent shape when they destroyed Marquette in November. Especially after the Golden Eagles would come near the top-10 later on. Same goes with Louisville who they beat as the Cardinals went on a big time run in the middle of the season.

There was a loss to Arkansas and then they got torn apart by Zion and Duke. But this team was 12-2 at one point, ranked for six weeks while peaking at 21. Then came the losing streak. It did start off with Michigan and Maryland on the road which is just really unfortunate. But the losses kept coming. It tallied all the way up to seven games.

The Hoosiers went on the road to play Michigan State. It was not looking pretty for Indiana, but somehow they forced overtime and won. But then came a five-game losing streak. Indiana again knocked off a top-25 Big Ten team in Wisconsin, beat the Spartans for a second time and entered the Big Ten Tournament on a four-game winning streak.

Their record at the time was 17-14. The Hoosiers fought really hard to get above .500 and played Ohio State in what seemed to be an elimination game. The Buckeyes came out on top by four. But Indiana hung around. Every time you looked at all those great wins, it just seemed hard to leave them out. Lukas had them as his fourth team out on Selection Sunday. Indiana was in 16 brackets on the Matrix. Their NET was just outside the top-50, but were inside with an average of websites. That still wasn’t enough for Archie Miller to take Indiana dancing in his second season.

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