BOWLING GREEN — If Bowling Green fans have heard it twice, they have heard it a thousand times.
The Falcons are entering Year 54 of their NCAA tournament drought. Among teams that have reached the tournament at least once, it’s tied for the third-longest dry spell in the country behind only Dartmouth and Tennessee Tech. With the departure of All-MAC talent Daeqwon Plowden, yet another decorated star has come and gone from Wood County without reaching the Big Dance.
Their problems go deeper than that, though.
Coach Michael Huger has led Bowling Green to just one postseason appearance in his seven-year tenure, a pit stop in the 2021 CBI that ended in a 53-52 loss to Stetson (the Falcons did go 22-12 in 2019, and 21-10 during a 2020 season cut short by the coronavirus pandemic).