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Originally Posted by wade moore
That's not the difficulty.
The difficulty is that when a mid-major does "everything they were asked to do" they still don't get in.
I'll take one specific case -
the 2006-2007 Drexel Dragons:
23-9. They beat Vermont, St. Joes, Villanova, Syracuse, Temple, and Creighton out of conference. Lost to Rider and Penn out of conference. 7 losses in-conference, only 1 of which I'd call a "bad loss".
Their RPI was somewhere around 30.
No dice.
This team scheduled a VERY strong OOC schedule for a mid-major and delivered. Yet there they were - NIT bound.
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That was a bad snub. I remember they put in an SEC school that went 7-9. Couple others I remember were:
Appalachian State - Won at Virginia and Vanderbilt (who was a 6 seed). Also won at Wichita State, VCU, UCF, and Stephen Curry's Davidson team.
Missouri State - Don't remember if it was 2006 or 2007, but they had an RPI of 21 and a win at a top 10 school.