NIT no Big East teams. Why?

[todbo]

I'm just wondering why not.

 

[Fishy]

Google “The Crown.”

 

[todbo]

Google “The Crown.”

Aha. Thanks.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

What a perfectly polite thread. Preserve it with a lock.

 

[storrsroars]

Kinda surprised Georgia Tech is in there. Figured The Crown would take care of all ACC, B12 & BE teams worth a damn.

 

[BugsyCT]

Bizarre scheduling. These teams will have not played a game since their conference tourneys nearly 3 weeks earlier - they're playing this tourney the week between the NCAA regional finals & Final Four (Mon-Thu), with the Crown semifinals the afternoon of Sat, April 5th (NCAA FF semis later that night) and the final on Sunday.

Interesting to see if this will actually have success with casual viewers in the midst of the big dance FF.

 

[Kolumbo]

 

[GampelGladiator]

NCAA

Creighton
Marquette
St. John's
UConn
Xavier

CROWN

Butler
DePaul
Georgetown
Villanova

NIT

n/a

Why was DePaul selected instead of Providence?

• 13 - St. John's Red Storm
• 26 - Marquette Golden Eagles
• 32 - UConn Huskies
• 38 - Creighton Bluejays
• 45 - Xavier Musketeers
• 55 - Villanova Wildcats
• 83 - Butler Bulldogs
• 88 - Georgetown Hoyas
• 100 - Providence Friars
• 119 - DePaul Blue Demons
• 211 - Seton Hall Pirates

 

[BuffaloHusky]

How is a team without a coach like Nova going to participate in this?

 

[Kathy]

How is a team without a coach like Nova going to participate in this?

Assistant coach has been named interim coach

 

[ucp990411]

How is a team without a coach like Nova going to participate in this?

Continue the status quo established by 3 years of little or no coaching

 

[Travelman6]

What's the appeal or point of this? Some pretty dreadful teams, 19 loss team...

 

[djct1999]

Maybe it’s for the best. Imagine this? The NIT messed up big time!

 

[StllH8L8ner]

How is a team without a coach like Nova going to participate in this?

Ed Pinkney and Dwayne McClain are going to return 40 years after their magical NCAA run to coach them to Crown Tourney glory.

 

[mike012]

I believe the winner of the crown gets 300k.

 

[UCTitleTown]

LOL. Colorado made it.

 

[WrenchFan69]

The Crown promised to be a tournament with only schools from the best conferences. Too good for the mid majors. Then they invite the 8th best team from the A-10? They should be clowned for that

 

[Ha Who]

Kinda surprised Georgia Tech is in there. Figured The Crown would take care of all ACC, B12 & BE teams worth a damn.

Isn’t the ACC an ESPN property?

 

[Greathusky]

Surprised Central CT got no bids to either the Crown or NIT.

 

[Tyler2Rings]

Surely a Power team like Cincinnati should have no problem with the 10th best team in our little conference.

 

[cullaville]

Surprised Central CT got no bids to either the Crown or NIT.

Used to be regular season conference champs that di not win their conference tourney automatically got an invite to the NIT.

This should be reinstated especially "The Crown" has scooped up 16 teams.

 

[Alum86]

And CCSU? Did they get snubbed altogether? NIT/CBI. It used to be conference regular season champs who did not win their tourney and did not get a NCAA at large got auto bids to the NIT. However, I believe the NCAA owned NIT changed it to a ”formula.”

 

[BugsyCT]

CCSU's conference is painfully weak, even weaker than it used to be since some of the NEC's teams have jumped and were replaced with some schools that just recently upgraded to Division I sports. That cripples their chances of any at-large bid for anything.

 

[SwingDog]

I don't believe the CBI or CIT have yet announced which teams are participating so I suppose there's a chance CCSU gets an invite to one of them.

 

[champs99and04]

And CCSU? Did they get snubbed altogether? NIT/CBI. It used to be conference regular season champs who did not win their tourney and did not get a NCAA at large got auto bids to the NIT. However, I believe the NCAA owned NIT changed it to a ”formula.”

It did. Unfortunately, the NIT has been on borrowed time ever since teams started declining invitations. And we're now seeing it become the CBI in real time. It simply cannot survive the NIL/portal era.

As for "The Crown," not only do I think it's going to succeed, but I think it will eventually replace the NCAA Tournament. The writing is all over the wall.