
At NCAA tournament time, some mid-majors break contain and write themselves into the history of American sports: 2011 VCU, 2013 Florida Gulf Coast and 2022 St. Peter’s for example. Some, as we recently explored, break contain only temporarily—Bradley, for instance, made news in 2006, but isn’t well remembered today outside of Peoria, Ill.
And then there are those that never break contain at all.