How does this happen?
Mizzou’s women’s soccer team became the first regular-season champion in the Big 12 Conference to be excluded from the NCAA Division I tournament.Mizzou failed to secure one of the 34 at-large bids in the 64-team field.
The Tigers (13-6-3, 7-1-2) won the regular-season title but missed out on the conference’s automatic bid Saturday when they lost to Oklahoma State 3-2 in a Big 12 tournament semifinal.
How does the regular season champion of a major conference get snubbed?