If you want an example of how bizarre this 2016 college basketball has been, here's a good one: a team that was bounced out of its conference tournament in the semifinals could somehow score the Atlantic Sun's automatic NCAA Tournament bid.
Are you with us? A team that lost in a one-bid league could swing its way into the Big Dance after all.
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Here's how.
Friday's Atlantic Sun Tournament championship game features No. 4-seeded Florida Gulf Coast against No. 7-seeded Stetson. But Stetson is ineligible for NCAA Tournament play because the team did not meet the NCAA's APR eligibility standards.