The Men's Basketball teams were announced for 2017 March Madness Tournament. Everyone already had an idea about who would be bubbled in and who will be snubbed away. Syracuse, Iowa, Illinois State, Monmouth, and Texas-Arlington are among those teams that were snubbed away from NCAA's Men's Basketball Tournament.

There was no surprise to see teams like Kansas, Kentucky, Villanova, Gonzaga and North Carolina making in for 2017 March Madness Tournament. The fan-followers were really shocked and disturbed equally for they could find their team been invited for this tournament. 2017 March Madness is a colloquial term used for NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament which involves only 68 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament to trace out the national champion. The 79th edition of the tournament began on March 14, 2017, which will conclude on April 3 at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Arizona with the championship game. To see Syracuse first in the snubbed squad was a matter of surprise.

The tournament's selection committee snubbed away few teams that had strong cases, in particular. There are always questionable omissions in the selections every year and so we can expect the same in 2017 March Madness too. The Murray State Racers went 16-0 in the Ohio Valley Conference but they weren't included in the 2016 tournament. Similarly, the Temple University Owls also defeated Kansas by 25 points the same year and had eight top-100 victories, but then it wants enough to spot them. As mentioned in Hollywood Life, last year Vanderbilt and Syracuse got it with a mediocre 19-13 record. Oregon State also managed to get it even though they were not that much better.

SB Nation mentions the list of ignored team for 2017 March Madness where a matter of surprise was for Syracuse as they mentioned it's no more an enjoyable Jim Boeheim team and it doesn't seem that the team would last long in this March run. Even their 10-8 conference record in the ACC was misleading them. Reports made few things very clear about the selection committee that when things are close to equal then the committee members are more interested in. In many cases, their decisions align with efficiency numbers that suggest the power teams really were better than the ones they beat out. In the cases Of Illinois state, they would have made the field but since they didn't beat down any power conference they were snubbed away. Similarly, SB Nations has mentioned their find outs for other snubbed teams also.

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