I'm sort of with you on this. But we've lost pretty much every "measuring stick" OOC game we've played dating back to the Huggins days. We've shown well in a few, but never win.
A few of the many examples -
Huggins lost to Pitt twice. One being at the Coliseum.
Dambrot lost all the challenging Bracket Buster games (VCU multiple times, Nevada, Gonzaga etc)
Groce has done the same. St Bonaventure last year is a good example...a chance to move up in weight class, and we fell short for the umpteenth time.
The Zips annually float in the netherworld between the Horizon and the Missouri Valley. Good mid-major basketball. But not at-large-worthy. I've had season tickets for almost 30 years. I wish it would change. But we are who we are (can we add that to the ongoing cliche list?)