This gives us even less hope then because it just proves these people don't know basketball.
This is the NIT every year. It means nothing. It's no more meaningful than losing a bowl game that's out of the playoffs. Better football teams get upset all the time in those Gasparilla Bowls. Last yr Nova lost to Liberty, SHall lost to Colorado in the NIT, but that didn't stop Creighton & UConn from going deep into the NCAAs.
In '86 when 3 BE teams made the F4 & BC almost did, PC lost to La Tech & Pitt lost to SW Mizzou St. So it's the same as it ever was.
I look at UVa and Boise St as the real tells. We'll see how the bubble teams and the MWC do when they're playing for all the marbles.
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