In the 64-team NCAA Tournament era of college basketball — which dates back to 1985 — only seven teams have won their first 28 games of a season.
The first six of those — 1990-91 UNLV, 2004-05 Illinois, 2013-14 Wichita State, 2014-15 Kentucky, 2016-17 Gonzaga and 2020-21 Gonzaga and —all earned No.1 seeds from the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee.
The seventh member of that elite group is this year’s Miami University Redhawks. They will not be receiving a No. 1 seed on Selection Sunday, and there are more than a few people who believe Travis Steele’s team doesn’t deserve to see its name included in the tournament field at all.
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