Every bracket I've seen has had them easily in the tourney this year. They're in a bad run right now and have fallen to a likely 8/9 seed, but how are they not a bubble team right now?
45th RPI
77th SOS
Basically no marquee wins with their best win over Stanford on a neutral floor.
Yea I know they almost beat Syracuse but the fact is they didn't and they haven't beaten any of their toughest opponents. Not one.
You can make the argument that they should be in the tourney but how can anyone make the argument that they shouldn't at least be on the bubble?