What a team does one season often has no bearing on how it fares the following year.
Notre Dame showed that by advancing to a regional final in 2015 after posting a losing record the year before. As the college basketball season gets ready to start Friday, here are six teams that have reason to believe they could make a similar surge by advancing to the NCAA Tournament after failing to earn a bid last season:
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2014-15 record: 18-15
The 14th-ranked Golden Bears are the highest-ranked team in the preseason AP Top 25 that failed to make the NCAA Tournament last season.