With no hope of gaining an at-large bid and no conference tournament to play in, James Madison is guaranteed to miss out on March Madness this year. The Colonial has been strictly a one-bid league dating back to 2011. The conference has only sent multiple teams to the Big Dance five times in 43 years of existence. Thanks to the petty pricks at the helm of the CAA, the Dukes have no realistic path into the 2022 NCAA Tournament. Thus, the 2022 Colonial Athletic Association tournament will not include JMU. James Madison submitted a waiver request hoping to receive legibility which the conference was quick to deny last fall. Well, that maneuver didn’t please the CAA and its decision-makers.Īs a result of JMU’s decision to switch leagues next season, the CAA banned the Dukes from any and all athletic championships for the 2021-22 season. The school announced its intention to leave the decrepit Colonial Athletic Association for the Sun Belt Conference after the conclusion of the 2021-22 academic year. So, the reasons why all of the above teams are ineligible for the 2022 NCAA Tournament make sense, right? Well, such is not the case in this last tier, which starts with James Madison. Tier III - Ineligible Due to the Bogus Rules of Petty Conferences James Madison | CAA
Considering they have just a 2-12 record in the Summit League, perhaps the wait is for the better. This marks the Tommies’ first transition year from Division II up to the D-I level. Thomas has the longest wait before they will be able eligible for the NCAA Tournament. Here’s hoping we get to see the incredible “Tritons” nickname in the NCAA Tournament in 2025 when they first become eligible or shortly thereafter! St. Not only will UCSD not be able to participate in the conference tournament this season, but the Big West doesn’t even both to keep a conference record for the Tritons during the regular season. The Big West Conference takes things a step further with its lone transition program, UC San Diego. The soonest Tarleton could qualify for the NCAA Tournament would be in 2025. Despite holding their own in the WAC this season, the Texans will not be eligible to compete in the conference tournament in Las Vegas. The Tarleton State basketball program finds itself in the exact same situation as Dixie State. As this is only the school’s second transition season, they are ineligible for the conference tournament anyways. The Trailblazers brought up the rear in the WAC last season and are again below. Dixie State | WACĭixie State has yet to experience quite the degree of success as some of its fellow Division I transition schools. Bellarmine is 10-3 in league play again so far in the 2021-22 campaign. Like North Alabama, the ASUN allowed the Knights to participate in the conference tournament last year. The first year that Bellarmine will be eligible for the NCAA Tournament is 2025. 500 team in conference play again this year. Perhaps it’s for the better as the Warriors won the 2019-20 NEC regular-season title and is a. Unlike the ASUN, the NEC hasn’t let Merrimack compete in the conference tournament while they are in the midst of transitioning to D-I.
Even had UNA won the conference title, they would not have been able to play in March Madness. The Lions already made some noise in the ASUN Tournament when they finished runner-up to Liberty last year. North Alabama is also going through its final year of NCAA Tournament purgatory. The Lancers will be eligible for the dance starting next season. Tier II – Ineligible Due to Division I Transition Rules California Baptist | WACĪfter making the transition to Division I starting with the 2018 academic season, this is the final year that California Baptist must sit out the NCAA Tournament. Thus, the Pokes cannot qualify for March Madness by either an automatic or at-large bid this year. Included among those penalties is a one-year postseason ban. BREAKING-The NCAA rejected Oklahoma State’s appeal and has banned the MBB program from the 2022 postseason, sources told This is the first postseason ban handed down by the NCAA in relation to the 2017 FBI investigation into bribery/fraud in CBB recruiting.- Matt Norlander November 3, 2021Īs a result, Oklahoma State must pay reparations stemming from an FBI investigation into program corruption.
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