Title: Cinderella (sports)
Content:  team played inconsistently throughout the season and were not selected to enter the 2010 NCAA Tournament due to them finishing with a losing record in conference play. UNC were instead invited to play in the 2010 National Invitation Tournament; they won four straight games to advance to the NIT championship game, where they would lose to the Dayton Flyers. ; Virginia Commonwealth University (2011) — The 11th-seeded Rams, who had to play in the First Four, made it to the Final Four for the first time in school history, losing narrowly to the 8th-seeded Butler in the semifinals. ; Wichita State University (2013) — The 
Title: NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
Content:  tournament. ; 2009 champion North Carolina went 20–17 in 2010. The Tar Heels accepted an invitation to the National Invitation Tournament, and reached the finals, losing to Dayton. ; 2012 champion Kentucky went 21–11 in 2013 and failed to make that tournament. The Wildcats were invited to the National Invitation Tournament, where they lost to Robert Morris in the first round of the tournament. ; 2014 champion UConn went 20–14 in 2015 and failed to make that tournament. The Huskies were invited to the National Invitation Tournament and lost to Arizona State in the first round. There have been nine times in which the tournament did not include the reigning champion (the previous year's winner):
Title: UNC Wilmington Seahawks
Content:  appearance in post-season play came in 1998 when they were selected for the NIT. They played again in the NIT in 2001. UNCW has made six appearances in the NCAA Tournament (2000, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2016, 2017), two in the NIT (1998, 2001), and one in the CIT (2015). Their first trip in 2000 they lost to the #2 seed Cincinnati, 64-47. In their second appearance in 2002, the 13th seeded Seahawks shocked the 4th seeded University of Southern California Trojans with a 93-89 overtime win. They were defeated by Indiana in the second round, 76-66. In 2003, they lost to Maryland on a last-second basket. In 2006 the Seahawks earned a ninth seed and lost to #8 seed George Washington in overtime, 88-85. The Seahawks lost to Duke (93-85) in 2016. In 2017 Virginia beat UNCW in the first round.
Title: UNC Wilmington Seahawks men's soccer
Content:  UNCW has appeared in three NCAA Tournaments. Its first appearance came in 2009. Their most recent came in 2018.
Title: 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
Content:  Kentucky entered the tournament unbeaten. After 22 years without an unbeaten team in the tournament, following UNLV in 1991, this is the second consecutive tournament with an unbeaten team (after Wichita State in the previous). The Wildcats, by beating Cincinnati in the third round, set an NCAA men's record with 36 straight wins to start a season. They would win two more before Wisconsin upset them in the Final Four. Defending national champion UConn did not qualify. Kansas extended its streak of consecutive tournament appearances to 26 in a row. They have made each NCAA Tournament dating back to 1990. Kansas 
Title: NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament
Content:  8th team to end the season unbeaten. ; In 2015, Princeton entered the tournament 30–0, but lost in the second round to Maryland. ; In 2016, UConn entered the tournament 32–0, beat Syracuse for the national title, ending the season 38–0. ; In 2017, UConn entered the tournament 32–0, but lost in the Final Four to Mississippi State, ending their 111-game winning streak to finish 36–1. ; In 2018, UConn entered the tournament 32–0, but lost in the Final Four to Notre Dame, ending their 36-game winning streak to finish 36–1. Of the 18 teams who have entered the tournament unbeaten, 9 went on to win the National Championship. One exception is Cal Baptist, who was excluded from the 2021 tournament as a transitional Division I member, despite a 24–0 record.
Title: UNC Wilmington Seahawks
Content:  The UNC Wilmington women's basketball program completed its 37th season of competition in 2010-11, including the last 25 as a member of the NCAA Division I ranks. The Seahawks began as a member of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women in 1973-74 and spent 10 years as a member until the association's disbandment following the 1982-83 season. UNCW joined the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for one season, recording a program best mark of 22-6 that year before joining the NCAA Division I ranks as a member of the ECAC-South Conference in 1984 (the league changed its name to the Colonial Athletic Association in 1985). The Seahawks have made two appearances in the Colonial Athletic Association championship game, falling both times to Old Dominion (92-49 in 2000 and 76-48 in 2002). UNCW's best regular-season finish came in 2010-11, when the Seahawks finished in a tie for second place with Old Dominion University, one game behind regular season champion James Madison.
Title: NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
Content:  undefeated since 1980. Other possibilities for an undefeated team to fail to qualify: the team is independent; the conference does not yet have an automatic bid; or the team is transitioning from a lower NCAA division or the NAIA, during which time it is barred from NCAA-sponsored postseason play (currently, the NCAA Tournament or NIT). No men's team from a transitional D-I member has been unbeaten after its conference tournament, but one such women's team has been—California Baptist in 2021. (CBU was able to play in the women's NIT, which has never been operated by the NCAA.) Before 1980, there were occasions on which a team achieved perfection in the regular season, yet did not appear in the NCAA tournament.
Title: List of NCAA Division I men's basketball champions
Content:  of those that did so—Utah in 1944, Kentucky in 1949, and City College of New York (CCNY) in 1950—won the NCAA Tournament. The 1949–50 CCNY team won both tournaments (defeating Bradley in both finals), and is the only college basketball team to accomplish this feat. By the mid-1950s, the NCAA Tournament became the more prestigious of the two events, and in 1971 the NCAA barred universities from playing in other tournaments, such as the NIT, if they were invited to the NCAA Tournament. The 2013 championship won by Louisville was the first men's basketball national title to ever be vacated by the NCAA after the school and its coach at the time, Rick Pitino, were implicated in a 2015 sex scandal involving recruits. The 
Title: UNC Greensboro Spartans
Content:  On March 2, 1996, men's basketball knocked off Liberty, 79-53, to claim the Big South Tournament Championship and advance to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in Division I. The Spartans lost to Cincinnati in the NCAA Tournament, 66-61. The five seniors from the team had their numbers honored. Scott Hartzell finished his career as the men's basketball's all-time leading scorer with 1,539. On March 4, 2001, the men's basketball team won its first Southern Conference championship on David Schuck's buzzer-beating layup. The team went on to play top-ranked Stanford in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, its second trip to the "Big Dance" in five years. Guard Nathan Jameson was named first-team Verizon Academic All-America. On December 31, 2005, UNCG hosted top-ranked Duke at the Greensboro Coliseum in front of a record crowd of 21,124. The near capacity crowd was the largest to ever see a UNCG athletic event. On December 5, 2008, it was announced that UNCG would be moving their home games to the Greensboro Coliseum for the 2009–2010 season.

Question: when was the last time unc did not make the ncaa tournament?
Answer: 2003.