The NCAA has decided for the fourth time in the last three years that the ACU Wildcats just aren't good enough for an invitation to their post-season party.
The volleyball team is the latest Wildcat athletic program to get left out when it comes time for NCAA post-season play, joining a 47-win baseball team in 2007, an 18-win women's basketball team last spring and last year's 20-win men's basketball team.
If you're a Wildcat fan, it's been an extremely frustrating run of bad luck for some teams who were more-than-deserving of NCAA post-season bids. The ACU volleyball team won 12 straight matches to reach the LSC Post-Season Tournament championshp match where they lost an epic five-set match against West Texas A&M.
But it wasn't enough to offset what was probably a better strength of schedule by Nebraska-Omaha, which took the final at-large bid.
What's worse is that an average Texas-Permian Basin team reached the tournament as the No. 8 seed after it earned the Heartland Conference's automatic bid with a win in the tournament championship. If Wildcat fans want something to be angry about, this is it: the eight teams in the Heartland Conference combined for a pathetic 101-146 record (.409 winning percentage), including a 23-63 record against teams from the LSC and Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA), the other two conferences in the South Central Region.
UTPB will draw the No. 1 seed in the tournament, Emporia State, in a first-round match later this week in Emporia, Kan. Call me stunned if the Lady Falcons are on the floor longer than 60 minutes.
Nice job, NCAA.
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This is Abilene Christian University? Not much Christ like attitude shown. Who wrote this hateful note?
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