Quote Originally Posted by dawg80 View Post
NSU used to reach the NCAAs with some regularity. That's when they were sending coaches all over the nation: Bama, Nebraska, etc.. It's been a recent slump for them, actually. Yeah, maybe successful baseball has left them behind for good now. But, seems to me it's easier to reach the NCAAs....well, the auto-bid, in a weaker league. Heck! every year the SWAC has a representative in the NCAAs and that league sucks.

To be fair, last year NSU was on the bubble. I posted elsewhere that UNO, SLU, and NSU all entered the SLC tourney with fairly high RPIs but they were grouped together on one side of the bracket and proceeded to beat up on each other. Only UNO got a bid, as I recall.
NWST was never on the bubble last year. NWST had an inflated RPI because of whom they lost to, not whom they beat. The Demons were never in the at-large discussion.