"St. John's Shockingly Snubbed from March Madness 2024"
St. John’s University's men's basketball team was left out of the NCAA Tournament despite a late-season surge and a No. 32 NET ranking, with coach Rick Pitino criticizing the selection process. The team's exclusion was due to a weekend of automatic-bid-stealing, setting a record for the highest-ranked team to miss the tournament. Pitino aimed to lead St. John’s to its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2019, but the team declined an invitation to the NIT after the snub.