March Madness 2022: Texas A&M and the 5 biggest NCAA Tournament snubs

The Field of 68 has been set but not everyone can go dancing. These five teams were the biggest March Madness snubs in the NCAA Tournament.

Trying to pick the 68 best teams in the country is never an easy assignment for the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee.

With the reveal of the official March Madness bracket today, the committee came close to matching most late Bracketology reports but there are always going to be disappointed teams left at the alter.

Which teams had the biggest gripes with being left out of the field?

Let’s break down the five biggest snubs from the field of 68 by starting with a team that played itself out of the bracket in Xavier.

5. Biggest March Madness snubs – Xavier Musketeers

If you told a Xavier fan in mid-January that the Musketeers would miss the tournament they would look at you like you had four heads. At that point, the Musketeers were 14-3 with a win over Ohio State and looked like they would sail to a single-digit seed in the NCAA Tournament.

That all came undone as the Musketeers went 4-10 down the stretch, a pitiful performance that included a loss to DePaul and a sweep at the hands of St. John’s. The final nail in the coffin for Xavier came in the Big East Tournament, where they lost their first game to Butler to ultimately play themselves out of the field.

Despite having a respectable NET of 41 the selection committee didn’t even have Xavier as one of the first four teams out of the field. The Musketeers will be an example of how important it is to finish the season strong if you want to earn an at-large bid.