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[QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4742678, member: 71"]
Presenting this as an opportunity to give a school and their players a leg up on potential NIL money is a bold marketing maneuver that may make this far more attractive than the other also ran post season tournaments.

That it is the two conferences that are outside the inevitable [B][I]Power Two[/I][/B] speaks volumes.

There currently is an NCAA rule (which they likely will not consider rescinding) where if you turn down an invitation to an NCAA run postseason tournament (NCAA had owned the NIT for more than a decade now) you cannot participate in another postseason tournament.

Risking what the result of testing the NCAA's resolve on this may well be worth the risk for the BE & B-12, the B1G may be far more cautious as they are playing a long game that still had more than a decade remaining before all of the pieces fall into place.  They aren't going to benefit from this anywhere near as much as the other two conferences and making waves may not be in their best interests for a while.
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