March Madness 2025 snubs: Which teams got burned on Selection Sunday

It didn’t take long for controversy to brew on Selection Sunday when North Carolina made the March Madness 2025 bracket, getting sent to Dayton for a First Four game despite possessing a 1-12 record in Quad 1 games this season.Texas, Xavier and San Diego State were the other three teams who cracked the tournament committee’s “Last Four In” list, with the Longhorns’ appearance adding to the SEC’s record-setting year where they sent 14 teams into the March Madness field.The Post breaks down the major snubs from the NCAA Tournament, including West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio State and Boise State — which appeared on the committee’s “First Four Out” list.Guard Bruce Thornton emerged as one of the best in the country, averaging 17.5 points and 4.5 assists per game in the regular season. As a team, the Buckeyes shot 37.2 percent from 3-point range — third-best in the conference.But they’re soft inside defensively and collected a 6-11 record in Quad I games this season, and their final game before Selection Sunday was a brutal loss to Iowa in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament. The Hawkeyes fired head coach Fran McCaffrey days later after their season-ending loss, but his final win with the program popped the Buckeyes’ bubble case.The Post has you covered with a printable NCAA bracket featuring the full 68-team March Madness 2025 field.Mike Woodson and the Hoosiers are parting ways after the season, and earlier this month, it appeared that he might be leaving too soon — as he expressed on Senior Day. After a five-game midseason losing streak, the Hoosiers won five of their last seven regular-season games yet fell short of reaching the Tournament for the third time under Woodson.They lost to Oregon in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament and went just 4-13 in Quad I games.There weren’t many expectations for the Mountaineers and first-year head coach Darian DeVries this season — as they were picked 13th in the Big 12 preseason poll...