The top seeds in the NCAA Tournament are generally heavy favorites in their first-round games.
Frustrated coaches in men's and women's college basketball haven't been holding back in publicly criticizing their teams in recent weeks.
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The football team won't be allowed to participate in the 2020 postseason, the men's basketball team can't participate in the 2021-22 postseason and the baseball team will be prohibited from participating in the postseason in the spring of 2021. Stephen F. Austin also agreed to return 50% of its financial share earned from participating in the 2016 NCAA Tournament and forfeited 289 victories in four sports where ineligible student-athletes participated. By vacating those wins, the men's basketball team forfeits three conference championships and its victory in the first round of the 2016 NCAA Tournament. The men's basketball team will lose one scholarship in either the 2020-21 or 2021-22 season. ___This story has been corrected to show that Stephen F. Austin did get postseason bans.
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