No Division I men’s basketball team has ever missed the NCAA Tournament in the modern era after finishing its regular season undefeated.<\/p>\n
So that should do it.<\/p>\n
Yes, Miami University will be in the 2026 NCAA Tournament regardless of what the RedHawks do in next week’s MAC Tournament. Put another way, Travis Steele’s 31-0 team can lose its quarterfinal game in Cleveland to UMass by a billion points, and if Miami isn’t still in the NCAA Tournament, every member of the selection committee should resign on the spot.<\/p>\n
I’ll keep this simple: Anybody in favor of giving an at-large bid to a power-conference school with 14 or 15 or 16 losses at the expense of group of dudes who just went 31-0 in the regular season, if Miami were to need an at-large bid, either works for a power conference or has strong ties to somebody running a bubble team.<\/p>\n
The rest of us know what’s right.<\/p>\n
As you surely understand by now, the RedHawks tried to schedule a whole bunch of quality opponents to increase the difficulty of their schedule — but most were reluctant to agree to a game for a variety of reasons, with the primary one being that Miami was returning four of the top five scorers from a team that won 25 games last season. In an era when roster-continuity from one successful season to another at the MAC-level is rare, Miami had it. Other programs knew it. And that is more or less how the RedHawks ended up with a strength of schedule that ranks 344th nationally, according to the NET.<\/p>\n
That’s not good, obviously.<\/p>\n
But, again, it’s also not entirely the fault of the RedHawks. And, either way, and I can’t emphasize this enough, THEY’RE 31-0! And, again no team has ever missed the NCAA Tournament in the modern era after finishing its regular season undefeated.<\/p>\n
Miami won’t be the first.<\/p>\n
The RedHawks remain No. 19 in Saturday morning’s updated CBS Sports Top 25 And 1 daily college basketball rankings, where Duke is No. 1 for the 14th straight day. Duke, Michigan and Arizona have already locked-up No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament, according to CBS Sports Bracketology. The fourth No. 1 seed will likely end up attached to either Florida or UConn, though Houston and Michigan are also technically in play.<\/p>\n
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