Meet the five teams who are 0-75 in NCAA tournament appearances
The Terriers of Brooklyn Heights have been playing intercollegiate basketball since 1901 and have been a Division I program since the 1947-48 season, when the NCAA established divisions. And, in the 1940s and '50s, St. Francis was a hoops hotbed, with a national ranking and 18 straight wins in 1955-56.
Yet St. Francis is one of only five of those original 160 Division I schools that has never gone to the tournament.
As the tourney prepares for its 75th tip-off this month, the Terriers and their four mates -- Northwestern, Army, The Citadel and William & Mary -- have had 75 chances, but are a combined 0-for-375.
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NORTHWESTERN
When the NCAA tournament was born, it seemed the 'Cats were destined for it. Northwestern was a basketball school. It won a Big Ten title in 1933 and its 1930-31 team went 16-1 and was named retroactive national champion years later by the Helms Foundation. Plus, Northwestern hosted the first NCAA championship game. So far, that's its only link to it.
http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/fandom/post/_/id/19449/ncaa-tournaments-un-fab-five-are-0-for-75
Army could have got in 1967-68 but coach Bobby Knight declined to play in the NIT instead. Coach K was a player on that team.
