Here is a coach with 27 years in the business, and not a single appearance (as a head coach or an assistant) in the NCAA Tournament to show for it.
Here’s a program that has had one — exactly — one postseason game in its history and that, too, was not in the NCAA Tournament.
Here’s a team that dove into conference play with a five-game losing skid that extended into a seven-loss-in-eight-games slide.
And here’s an improbable eight-seed becoming the lowest seed to ever reach the finals of the Mid-American Conference Tournament.
“You lose 87 percent of your offense from last year.