First off, sorry for the football picture. For whatever reason, the AP doesn’t send a lot of photographers to Central Michigan basketball games.
That reason isn’t actually that tough to discern: they’ve been bad at basketball for some time now. They’ve got the NCAA tournament once in the KenPom Era, and that was as an 11-seed in 2013 (though they did make good by knocking off the Big East’s own Creighton that year). They’ve made the top 100 in the KenPom just once since then, a weird blip in 2015 where they went from 286th the year before to 80th, then right back to 158th.