NIT Selection Show

[whaler11]

Gampel orXL?

Would be shocked if game wasn't at Gampel. Costs tens of thousands to open XL for a game.

 

[MattMang23]

Always Gampel. Campus sites

 

[CTBasketball]

Bringing you along slowly. When the game is over you get the hell out of there. Hell has nothing on the 1:30 local to New Haven.

Haha I'd get off in Fairfield - but I've been dumped off on the late train to New Haven at 2:30am. Never again.

 

[UConn990411]

We'll be playing with an experimental 30-second shot clock in this tournament. Imagine if we had 5 less seconds today..

That's not a small thing. We'll be seeing this team play with a little more zip, which is probably how they should've played all season.

 

[whaler11]

Haha I'd get off in Fairfield - but I've been dumped off on the late train to New Haven at 2:30am. Never again.

Yeah I usually park in Fairfield. Doesn't matter the stop you don't want the 1:30 train.

 

[Tenspro2002]

We'll be playing with an experimental 30-second shot clock in this tournament. Imagine if we had 5 less seconds today..

They're going to drag us kicking and screaming to score 50 points in a game.

 

[Sky ball]

The NIT Championship game vs West Virginia in 1989 was a big deal.

 

[CTBasketball]

The NIT Championship game vs West Virginia in 1989 was a big deal.

That was before we knew what kind of a drug the NCAA Tournament was.

 

[UConnDan97]

The Old Dominion "quadrant" is a joke. Tulsa should walk through that. Not much consolation for their snub, but...

 

[UConn_Top_Dog]

Look at it this way. Boat gets to play in Gampel again. I'm stoked to have the opportunity to watch this kid maybe a couple more times.

 

[Eskapeesto]

In all likelihood the ASU game will be our last at home.* If we advance we're most likely going to Richmond (1) and Miami (2). Not an easy road.

*Until we reach Storrs-South aka MSG

 

[UConn_Top_Dog]

When will we get ticket info. Seriously considering buying tickets if we play at Gampel.

 

[storrsroars]

I would not be surprised if the NIT becomes the tournament for the non-P5/Big East at some point. Until tonight I did not think that a split was coming, but after what happened with the Selection Committee, there is no doubt. The only question is what happens to the Big East. Everyone else's fate is sealed.

I've never put those two things together, but you might be onto something.

However, if the P5 can get a revenue split for its 60 teams, why dilute the pot with the Big East?

 

[ctchamps]

Schools hang banners for NIT appearances. I would hang one for championships. An ode to a one time prestigious tournament. Besides, it would be neat to win the NIT the years they do not make the ncaa's.

How many NIT banners make a Helms banner?

 

[CTBasketball]

How many NIT banners make a Helms banner?

Helm's Banner? Whats that?

 

[UConnDan97]

Helm's Banner? Whats that?

It's a mythical creature that lives in the woods of central New York state...

 

[ctchamps]

Helm's Banner? Whats that?

It's a melted down Helm's trophy sprayed on cloth!

 

[UConnDan97]

Jesus! Tulsa can't catch a break. If I'm not mistaken, their first game of the NIT can only be seen on the internet...

 

[whaler11]

Jesus! Tulsa can't catch a break. If I'm not mistaken, their first game of the NIT can only be seen on the internet...

Their season should have been cancelled when they lost to a D-2.

 

[UConn_Top_Dog]

Yale did not make the NIT LMAO

 

[UConnDan97]

Yale did not make the NIT LMAO

That's a tough deal. You lose two buzzer-beater games where either one would have secured your trip to the NCAA tourney, and then you aren't even invited into the NIT. Yikes...

 

[minidarren]

That's a tough deal. You lose two buzzer-beater games where either one would have secured your trip to the NCAA tourney, and then you aren't even invited into the NIT. Yikes...

We know what that feels like. Only difference was getting the NIT invite. UCONN>Yale. Yay!

 

[Eskapeesto]

Here it is, in all its flawed beauty.
https://cdn1.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/3507200/2015-nit-bracket.0.pdf

 

[The Funster]

Players play. That's the point.

Damn it's good to see you.

 

[UConnDan97]

We know what that feels like. Only difference was getting the NIT invite. UCONN>Yale. Yay!

What the selection committee showed us today was that we needed more than one game to have flipped the outcome. We likely needed at least 2 more wins, and maybe even a third. Of course, that could have come from any of our tough last-minute losses, like Texas, Yale, Temple (OT), Houston, etc...