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It will be hard to leave a 31-1 team out of the NCAA's but their SOS was like 330 and the MAC has some really bad teams so it will be a toss up. You really can't lose to a horrible UMASS team in the first round. I will say they are left out by the committee. 
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They go 31-0 and then get beat in the first round of their conference tournament.
I could tell it was coming because their last three wins were all by 2 points each - a sign of a team struggling to maintain a streak - and of teams which had learned much about them and placed a target on their backs for being undefeated.
This and several other conference tournament upsets are why I am in general, opposed to conference tournaments because of the massive possibility that a conference will not send it's season tested best to the NCAAT. Send the regular season champion to the NCAAT. IF a conference MUST have a conference tournament, only invite the top 4 teams; no 9 seeds who catch fire and finish with a 12-22 overall record and get 16 seed or PIG in the NCAAT.
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