A university basketball team found a way to qualify for Mars madness while he did not win until the basketball championship championship at its conference.
There is a base that helped a group to overcome the condition of earning a journey to the big dance.
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A total of 68 Schools Make NCAA Championship as 37 of them “offers” at the hot time, while 31 won the conferences of each of them – which gives them the opportunity to make the bow.
However, the University of Nebraska in Omaha is the only team that is not a big team or a conference champion and is still part of the men basketball The tournament.
The team can be the champion of the conference.
And that I did not do.
They beat the University of Saint Thomas from Minnesota on Sunday evening to demand the summit league conference championship victory.
Saint Thomas had entered the game as it is not eligible I am crazy They are also in the last year of moving from the second section program to section 1.
The teams that are promoted to D-1 should wait in a four-year transition before allowing them to madness in March, even if the team concerned wins the conference championship, according to NCAA rules.
Therefore, as soon as the top league is reached championship The game, Omaha was automatically participating in the NCAA championship, even if he lost to St. Thomas.
It's the first time in date From the MARCHA program they will be part of March Madness.
This is not the first time that this rule has been used in modern memory.
In 2021, the Merrimack College won the Northeast Conference in its last year of the process of being the first section program.
Thanks to the rules, they did not participate in March Madness and the team that ended in second place, which was Fairleight DickensonThey took their place.
It only happened that the FDU knights defeated the first place in boilermers.
This was the third time that the 16th work was done in date From NCAA, getting rid of the number 1.
Nebraska University in Omaha will discover its offspring this week.
The madness of March 2025, which is also called the selection of Sunday, will be fully unveiled at 5:00 pm East.
March Madness starts on Thursday 20 March.
