Last year North Texas won Conference USA but was robbed of a chance to cause some damage in the NCAA Tournament. This year they bring a senior-laden team to the Dance looking to upset Purdue. Here is what Adam from the site Mean Green Nation had to say about North Texas:
T-Mill: I am completely unfamiliar with North Texas and Purdue hasn’t played them since the only meeting way back in 1970. What is the history of your basketball program?
Adam: The short and sweet version is that NT basketball in the last 20 years has had two good eras: The Johnny Jones one (five 20-win seasons, two tournament appearances, two conference tournament titles) and the current era under McCasland (three 20-win seasons 3+seasons, one regular season title [last year’s pandemic cancelled one] and one conference tournament win)
The in-between years under Tony Benford saw NT severely underperform and waste some talent.