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FYI, Conference USA picked up one at-large bid last year, and that was the team that finished #1 in the regular season conference standings. FIU isn't getting into anything without winning the conference.

They’re not wrong. A poor conference finish will trump a good RPI. And FIU’s midweek schedule sucks. Winning a couple of games against Miami (FL) won’t help if they blow Sunday games and finish 8th in the conference.

I guess they have to measure the impact of conference tournament seeding vs. chances of an at-large bid. If their only prayer is to get in with a strong conference finish, then that Sunday game becomes more important. I'll bet we see Macdonald back on the weekends once they play Charlotte.

He got a weekend start against Missouri. I wonder if they slid him to midweek specifically to line him up for this game.