The conference got a record 6 NCAA Tournament bids, but everyone except San Diego State received lower seeds than projected
Two minutes into the second half of the Atlantic 10 championship game Saturday in Brooklyn, streamers and confetti began tumbling from the Barclay Center rafters onto the court. The Mountain West knows the feeling. It spent Saturday night and Sunday morning celebrating a record six teams expected to make the NCAA Tournament. Then the bracket and seeds were released. San Diego State, which finished fifth in the conference and is ranked No.
It becomes a statistical echo chamber, then, beating each other in a down year for West Coast basketball with just one team — Arizona — consistently ranked in the top 20. With little basis of comparison east of the Mississippi, the selection committee likely defaulted to the conference’s dismal record in the NCAA Tournament.
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