History of teams who get left out for teams with WORSE RPI rankings
2022
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43 Texas State left out
44 Colorado, 45 Pepperdine, 48 LSU, 49 LMU, 50 Auburn, 51 Ball State and 56 Tennessee were given an at-large bids
2021
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41 Syracuse, 44 Arkansas, 46 Southern California were left out
42 South Carolina, 43 West Virginia, 47 Kansas State, 48 Iowa State, and 54 Ole Miss got at-large bids
2019
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38 South Dakota (0-T50 wins), 45 Green Bay, and 48 California were left out
47 VCU and 50 Illinois got at-large bids
2018
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48 Kansas and 51 Kansas State were left out
50 Colorado, 53 San Diego, and 57 Loyola Marymount all got at-large bids.
2017
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47 North Texas was left out for 49 North Carolina State
2016
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47 Temple was left out for 48 Southern California.
2015
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42 Baylor, 43 Boise State, 44 Wyoming, 47 Pittsburgh all left out of the tournament.
45 Northern Iowa, 46 Arizona, 48 Oregon, 49 TCU, 51 Kansas State, 54 Michigan State all made it into the tournament.
2014
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42 SMU, 44 Ohio, and 45 CSUN were left out of the tournament.
46 Santa Clara, 47 Seton Hall, and 48 Michigan State got in.
2013
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37 Tulsa (0-top 50 victories) was left out of the tournament.
43 Butler, 47 UCLA were also left out of the tournament.
48 Colorado, 49 Arizona State, 51 Miami-Florida all got at-large bids.
2012
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NCAA committee went straight by RPI. All had significant victories.
46 LMU as the cut.
2011
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48 Ohio State and 49 Arizona jumped 47 Kansas with better victories.
All other at-larges had good victories.
2010
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The committee went straight by RPI, but it made sense.
47 SMU didn't get in (0 top 50 wins) but everybody above them did, and all those teams had top 50 wins.
2009
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46 Delaware/ 47 North Dakota State didn't get in (0 top-50 victories)
55 Washington State got in, 58 Clemson got in
(3 T50 victories)
2008
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45 Creighton (1-top 50 win) didn't get in.
50 Tennessee and 51 Iowa State both got in.
2007
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37 Tulane was left out with just 1 top 50 victory.
51 Santa Clara and 52 Illinois State both got in.
2006
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Straight RPI Cut-off
2005
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40 Albany only had one top 50 victory, and got left out.
53 LMU, 59 Texas A&M, 62 Kentucky all made it into the tournament. (with better wins)
2004
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41 Marquette and 44 Alabama were left out of the tournament. 0 top 50 wins
54 Kansas 56 Loyola Marymount, 58 UC Irvine made it into the tournament.
(LMU had 3 T50 wins, UC Irvine had just two T-50 WINS)
2003
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43 Wisconsin-Mliwaukee was left out of the tournament. 0 top 50 wins
50 Saint Mary's, 53 San Francisco, 63 Northwestern got at-large bids.
2002
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The strange thing that occured this year was the biggest blunder probably in NCAA history. Eastern Washington, 27 RPI, left out of the tournament with 3 top 50 wins. Other teams got in with worse RPI's and just 1 or 2 top 50 wins.