The mid majors are all getting robbed of their talent year after year with big money and no rules around transfers. This is a collection of decent dudes who stuck around and had a crazy good season. Absolutely insane to not reward that.
And what’s the NCAA tourney without solid mid majors that can pull an upset? The tournaments have been super chalky the last couple years because all the talent has been raided from the lower level teams. I really don’t want to turn the TOTTM into the top 12 teams from each of the top 4 conferences then some auto bids. IU had lots of chances to not be on the bubble. Fuck em, do better next year. Maybe try beating 14-15 Northwestern when you have to in order to punch a ticket.
“Go join another conference” lol. It’s not that easy. What conference wants them? Certainly no P4 conference. They’ve been good (in the MAC) for what, 2 years? That doesn’t parlay itself into a big time conference invite when you don’t bring anything else to the table.