#86/341 - SMU Mustangs

I guess the flash didn't go off for this picture but oh well. The SMU Mustangs, also known as the team everyone considered the biggest snub from this year's NCAA Tournament, but they ended up proving their worth by making the NIT Final. Here's a fun fact.

If SMU had held on to win the NIT Championship, we would have had a season in which the NIT Champions beat the NCAA Champions twice during the regular season. The Mustangs beat UConn at home by 9 in January and then travelled to Connecticut a month later and beat the Huskies by 9 again.

A lot of people felt the brand new American Athletic Conference got shafted by the tournament selection but I don't think that was the case. I thought that on paper the conference didn't look as good aside from beating each other up. But the tournament(s) made fools of us all.