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Disappointed but not done. The Rams fall short of NCAA Tournament goal, but head to Dallas as #1 seed in NIT

The Colorado State Men’s Basketball team fell short of their goal.

Making the 2021 NCAA tournament was the focus of Niko Medved’s group from the jump this year. The next step for a program on hyper speed since Medved took over. Unfortunately, this core of promising young talent will have to wait to take that next step. As the “second team out,” there’s a small chance that CSU could replace a team having to back out of the tournament due to COVID restrictions, but this doesn’t seem likely. For fans yet again disappointed in what is starting to feel like a personal vendetta against the Rams by the NCAA Selection Committee (the NCAA selection committee chair Mitch Barnhart all but admitted his bias when talking about Michigan State vs.