[BOKC Wildcat]

I agree with you about a 25-1 finish being good enough. Murray State can not sue the NCAA because it is a member of the NCAA. It would be akin to suing yourself, can't be done. Murray State will not be the first team wronged: Alcorn State in 1978-79 was 28-0 and not given an at-large berth because their conference was supposedly in "transition" to D-1. Yet they played in the NIT! In 1977-78, the University of New Orleans won the Sun Belt Conference, beat LSU at LSU and had a 21-6 record but was left out for mysterious reasons. UNO had future NBA center Wayne Cooper, Nate Mills, Ardith Wearren, Mike Edwards and was considered one of the best teams, but somehow they were left out. A great book on this team is titled "Room of Corruption" and focuses on the seeding of 1978 - the first year the NCAA did such - and an intern for the NCAA who was asked to tape the conversation of the committee in Shawnee Mission, Kansas. The intern forgets to give the tape to Wayne Duke (the NCAA chair and Big 10 commish) and takes it home. He discovers the tape 25 years later, and the ensuing conversations are mind-blowing why UNO did not get a bid. Great read!