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I hate this.
The NIT can be a highlight for a mid-major team and an embarrassing for a high-major team. All this does is prevent mid-majors from playing.
I hate this.
The NIT can be a highlight for a mid-major team and an embarrassing for a high-major team. All this does is prevent mid-majors from playing.
That's the speculation. Still this blows. No teams get screwed more than regular season champs from small conferences who don't win the tournament. Regular season should >> conf tournaments.This must be a response to the Fox thing, but not sure in what way. Maybe it was a compromise with the Fox conferences to keep them from agreeing to the Fox deal (so maybe that's dead now).
It’s good to be a UConn fan - where this doesn’t apply to us!
And it still hurts.Lindsey Hunter lit us up in the NIT
Ehhh. That team never came together.And it still hurts.
I mean... I'd be more likely to tune into that trainwreck than a Jacksonville State vs Southeast Missouri State game...Remember the 2011 Big East? The BE with 11 bids. The NIT auto-bids in this case would’ve been a 13-18 Seton Hall and a 15-17 Rutgers, both getting home games. Because everyone wants to see a 13-18 Seton Hall and 15-17 Rutgers in mid March...(never mind 18-14 Minnesota). This change is trash.
Wow! Cooley has an entirely new look since he's moved down to DC.
Don't be arrogant and jinx it! We've been in the NIT plenty of times since Calhoun started in 1986.
that might be true but the night UConn basketball changed forever is when we won the NIT.It’s good to be a UConn fan - where this doesn’t apply to us!
And don't forget the 1997 NIT. I know a bunch of grumps at the time said that UConn shouldn't even have played in it. As it turned out it formed the bond that took us to the Elite 8 the next season.that might be true but the night UConn basketball changed forever is when we won the NIT.
i was there and it was one of the greatest and least talked about moments of UConn men's basketball history!
7 of them will probably decline the invite anyways.Nobody watches the NIT anyway, but guaranteeing 12 host teams per year being teams that fans won't show up or watch is obviously a great business decision
It's run by the NCAAIMO they should have limited the NIT to 1 team per P6 conference not given them 12 of the 32 spots guaranteed… who even owns the NIT? It’s not run by the NCAA, right? Is it like the CFP where it’s owned by the conferences?