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(05-01-2026, 09:18 AM)82lsju Wrote: how long until a "deserving team" with a losing record gets an at-large bid for the NCAA tournament?
Not quite the same, but the SMU men's team made the tournament this year with an 8-10 conference record (20-13 overall) as an at-large 11-seed. They lost to Miami (OH) in the first-four round.
(On a related note, Stanford finished with a 9-9 conference record and defeated SMU 95-75 in February.)
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)