The Deacs season included a fourth-place finish in the ACC, a program-record tying 13 ACC wins during the regular season, and another 20-plus win campaign.

With the new rules in place, the two highest-ranked SEC teams - or in this case the only two - to not make the NCAA Tournament automatically received an invitation to the NIT. It appears the Tigers have already declined there's just a couple hours after the March Madness bracket was announced.

Despite finishing with a 12-20 record — and dead last in the SEC with two conference victories — the Gamecocks men’s basketball team was in line for a postseason berth in the National Invitational Tournament. In fact, they earned an automatic exemption into the NIT Tournament.

Some Longhorns like Tramon Mark and Kadin Shedrick are back in the NCAA Tournment. For others such as Tre Johnson and Jordan Pope, it's a new experience.

Kadin Shedrick admitted he wasn’t very positive. In fact, the Texas graduate transfer was all but sure he and his Longhorn basketball teammates were going to be left out of the NCAA Tournament. But more than halfway through the CBS Selection Show late Sunday afternoon,

The Texas Longhorns will have a decision to make when it comes to the NIT if they are left out of March Madness.