Brown Men's Basketball to Miss NCAA Tournament for 40th Straight Year
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Brown Men's Basketball to Miss NCAA Tournament for 40th Straight Year
The winner of the tournament will receive an automatic bid to March Madness.
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While Brown is hosting, they are not playing.
On Saturday afternoon, Brown lost to Yale 70-61 at home leaving them on the outside looking in. The Bears finished the season 14-13, but just 6-8 in the Ivy League, finishing a disappointing 6th in the eight-team conference.
The Bears lost three of their final four league games, allowing Cornell and Princeton to secure the final two slots.
Brown, in the pre-season Ivy League coaches poll, was selected for third.
Next weekend, while Brown is hosting the tournament, it will be Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton, and Cornell playing on College Hill.
40 Years of Frustration
The Bears will be on the outside for the 40th consecutive season - Brown has no path to the NCAA tournament yet again.
The Bears have appeared in the NCAA Tournament twice, including the inaugural tournament in 1939 and then again in 1986, when they lost to Syracuse 52-101. Their combined record is 0–2.
Graduating from the program this year is Kino Lilly, Jr. — one of the most accomplished players in the program's history, as well as the injured former second-team All-Ivy player Nana Owusu-Anane and Aaron Cooley.
The Future
With the Bears graduating three of the top five scorers including the loss of one of the all-time greats in Lilly, the future is, at best, cloudy.
In an era of the transfer portal, the Ivy League has been being raided of its stars — Danny Wolf left Yale for Michigan, Kalu Anya left Brown for St. Louis and Malik Mack left Harvard for Georgetown.