With San Diego State and Florida Atlantic meeting in the semifinals, we are guaranteed to have a mid-major playing for the national championship Monday night. 1 seeds that are out of the field, and I wouldn’t take anything away from them.” So, I don’t think not advancing out of the first round is a testament that we’ve not been strong by any means.
“One of our commentators on one of our games said, ‘you know what it takes to lose a game in the NCAA Tournament, getting into the NCAA Tournament,’” Mountain West Commissioner Gloria Nevarez said. The conference had four teams in the NCAA Tournament in each of the last two years, and this year’s Aztecs are the only ones to win even a single game. San Diego State, meanwhile, is helping to rewrite the postseason narrative around the Mountain West. Additionally, Charlotte won the CBI last week. On top of FAU’s run to the Final Four, Conference USA has both teams in the NIT championship with UAB and North Texas squaring off Thursday night. Some of the biggest improvement has come from the middle and the bottom half of the league… It just validates everything we’ve been working towards.
Internally, we believed, and we saw that we were improving. “We’ve worked really hard to build our basketball programs. “For us, it is a perception thing that’s the most important ,” Conference USA Commissioner Judy MacLeod said. None of the conference’s current members have been to the final weekend. Florida Atlantic is also in the Final Four for the first time and is the first Conference USA team to reach the sport’s biggest stage since Memphis lost in the title game in 2008. San Diego State is the first Mountain West team to ever reach the Final Four.
Not only does a Final Four run mean a school receives added publicity by playing on college basketball’s biggest stage, but its conference sees similar gains as well.
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