After all, the Missouri Valley Conference doesn’t tend to earn many at-large bids.

In fact, UNLV has now gone 13 straight years without even making the NCAA tournament, last season barely finishing with a winning record.

Two years ago, the Syracuse Orange went 14-19, its worst mark since the late ’60s. They made modest progress last season (15-17), but their streak of missing the NCAA tournament reached five years, the school’s longest drought in over half a century.

Since bottoming out in 2021-22 with a 6-26 mark, the Georgia Bulldogs have steadily built the program back into a tournament team, making it to the big dance in each of the last two seasons.

Speaking of the Providence Friars, since winning 27 games and going to the regional semifinal in 2021-22, it’s been a tough slog. They got back to the tourney the following season, but have been shut out since, bottoming out with 20 losses in 2024-25.

In today’s college basketball program, we look at a pair of programs that suffered some key losses in the transfer portal this offseason.

The Texas Christian Horned Frogs suffered through a down season in 2024-25, finishing just .500 and breaking a streak of three straight appearances in the NCAA tourney. Last season, however, they enjoyed their best winning percentage since 1997-98, and made it to the second round of March Madness. Much of that success can be attributed to 11 conference wins, the school’s highest total since moving to the Big 12 in 2012-13.