Didn't know this was a thing. 1990 Long Beach St lost out on an at-large bid due to the Big West title game playing concurrently with the Selection Show.

https://www.hoopville.com/2020/03/03/bub...2-1990-94/

Quote:Somehow, the committee needed to find room for Long Beach State. The 49ers were victimized by their conference playing its championship game during the time selections were announced, and the selection committee feeling the need to punish them significantly for it.

It’s hard to imagine nowadays with so many national television options, but at the time conferences were sometimes at the mercy of networks if they wanted their championship games televised. ESPN asked for the Big West Tournament final to be played at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 p.m. Pacific on Selection Sunday, half an hour before the brackets were announced, and the league obliged, as other leagues had done before them.

Selection committees in the past had complained about leagues not having their games finished before the pairings were announced, and this time the committee took action against the Big West. The bracket revealed on CBS showed the No. 9 seed in the Southeast as either UC Santa Barbara or Long Beach State-the 49ers if they defeated third-ranked UNLV in the Big West tourney final going that moment, or the Gauchos if they didn’t. Selection committee chairman Jim Delany’s words on CBS were stinging: “The committee has been really concerned about the lateness of the (championship games). It is wreaking havoc with the selection and seeding process…(with Long Beach State and UCSB) the question was, if Long Beach State should upset UNLV, who should bear the burden. The committee felt that the Big West should bear that burden, if there indeed is a burden.”