Well, We Would Have Been in the First Round of the NCAA Basketball Tournament.. BUT!!: It's All Gone to the Dogs-- Part 1

From DogO'Day  "Dogs in Sports:  The Complete List of NCAA Canine Mascots" by Wesley Coburn.

Just in case you're going through withdrawal symptoms like me, we could have been seeing some of these out there on the hardwood court right now.

I came across this while doing some research for Civil War mascots for my Saw the Elephant:  Civil War blog.

A whole lot of NCAA programs use  avian or feline mascot names, dogs are pretty well represented.

By far the most popular Division One canine is the BULLDOG.

There are 15 of them, though all do not play football.  Here they are:

Alabama A&M
Bryant
Butler
The Citadel
Drake

Fresno-State
Gardner-Webb
Georgia
Gonzaga
Louisiana Tech

Mississippi State
UNC-Asheville
Samford
South Carolina State
Yale

Who Is Second?  --RoadDog