According to CBS college basketball analyst Seth Davis, the decision this evening to leave out Indiana from the NCAA tournament wasn't a good choice by the committee this season.
On the CBS selection show earlier today CBB analyst Seth Davis disagreed with Indiana being left on the bubble.
"I had Indiana and West Virginia in over North Carolina and Xavier," Davis said. "I gotta say, Indiana is the one that sticks out to me. They had a win at Michigan State, home against Purdue, 4-13 in Quad 1. So more than Carolina, and unlike Carolina – North Carolina also had a Quad 3 loss at home to Stanford. Indiana did not have any losses outside of Quad 1, so I'm curious to hear the reasoning. I mean, North Carolina had a great non-conference strength of schedule, terrific in the metrics, but the bottom line is only one Quad 1 win to Indiana's four. Carolina had a Quad 3 loss. Indiana didn't have any losses outside Quad 1."
Davis asked Bubba Cunningham, who is the athletic director at North Carolina and the chairman of the NCAA men's basketball selection sommittee, if North Carolina got an advantage because its AD is the chairman.
"Obviously I'm going to defer that to Keith [Gill], but all the policies and procedures were followed," Cunningham said. "And Keith can address exactly how North Carolina was discussed because I was not in the room for any of that."
"As the vice chair," Keith Gill said. "I managed all the conversations that we had about North Carolina, and we had quite a few. Our policies require the AD of any school to recuse themselves and actually leave the room for any of those discussions, and they're not allowed to participate in any vote as well. So we follow those, had lots of discussions about North Carolina."
"Saturday night, we took our final vote and we voted four teams in the field on Saturday night, and we had a contingency vote. The contingency vote, that was the last team in the field, and it was based on Memphis and UAB. If Memphis won that game, then that was going to free up a spot in the tournament, and that was going to be North Carolina. If UAB had won, then Memphis was gonna be in the tournament, UAB would have been in the tournament and North Carolina would have been the first team out. So that process played out today, Memphis won, and that put North Carolina in the field."
Agree with Seth Davis: West Virginia and Indiana should have been in over North Carolina and Xavier.
— Pat Forde (@ByPatForde) March 16, 2025
In four years, Woodson finished with an 82-53 record, this season he went 19-13 overall. Indiana made two NCAA Tournaments – in 2022 and 2023 – under Woodson. Indiana was 19-14 and 19-13 in the last two seasons and were turned away by the committee two seasons in a row.
The Hoosiers will lose Oumar Ballo, Trey Galloway, Langdon Hatton, Anthony Leal and Luke Goode in the next season, not including the 2025 transfers that will take place.