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Message: [QUOTE="WBBTakeover, post: 5224119, member: 13257"] Congrats to those who made it, but I'm not sure how big a deal it is. If you win the tournament, then people will say that you underachieved all season. See Illinois 2023-24--they clearly shouldn't have been in the WBIT based on where they were the year before and what they were able to do during that tournament. If you lose (especially in the Final Four), then it could lead to complete decimation of your program heading into the next season. See Penn State and Villanova (both teams lost major pieces after their WBIT runs in 2024). The WBIT will sell itself as the preferred second-rate postseason tournament for the young women to compete for something tangible and for coaches to use as a "launch pad" (yeah, right) for an NCAA bid the following season. The problem is that it's so horrendously organized (if you can call it "organization") that everyone involved gets the sense that they really shouldn't (and don't want to) be there. I guess the appeal of it (lowered financial losses due to the NCAA's financial backing) makes it tolerable, but I can't imagine that the players or the coaches like it. The fans clearly don't. Nobody's going to watch this mess. As for the ACC teams: I think UVA was right to decline their bid (and that's the one thing that I will applaud Mox for regarding this season). I think BC, Stanford, and especially Virginia Tech were so incredibly stupid to accept theirs. It won't help them next year, as they're all likely to end up as bottom-half ACC teams in 2025-26. I am facepalming hard. [/QUOTE]

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