Teams Declining NIT
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I’ll say this….the NIT (and its owner - the NCAA) can go f themselves. The big schools don’t want play in it and yet it used to be that the conference regular season champ of smaller conferences automatically could get a NIT bid if they didn’t win the conference playoff. This has been revoked. Also schools like Bellarmine were under the idea that even if they were ineligible for ncaa tourney they could still play in NIT. This also was not the case. So these stupid mf’ers actually could have schools that want in and they won’t give them auto bids.
Remember when the NIT was bigger than the NCAA!!! The schools n New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New England, Maryland and east coast considered the NIT as the crown jewel of college basketball.
Louisville won the NIT in 1956. Back then it was just as glossy as winning the NCAA.
At one time the NIT was more prestigious than the NCAA and the power teams would play for the NIT championship over the NCAA championship. That also helped sUcK win a NCAA title or 2 when the better teams played in the NIT.
they should turn it into a pre-season tourney using the last 16 or 32 teams standing from previous march madness. make it thru the first week in march and you're in the pre-season NIT in the fall. teams play first two rounds regionally to save travel then final four somewhere big. would say MSG but they can get way more people in football stadium so Indy makes sense. would make tons of money and be better than that dumb thing cbs puts on to start the season
Pre-Season tourneys will all be "Pay for Play" moving forward. $1m to the winning team to be evenly distributed as NIL amongst the players.
I mean, I know it was, but do I remember it? No. I’m old, but not that old.
But we could've been a contendah!
We already got our invitation to the NIT (Not Invited Tournament)
All I know is that there is this show getting ready to start on CBS, NCAA selection show or something… not sure what it is but it sounds cool.
too many teams, would take too long. and in bball there is no power 5 per se, defending champion UConn doesn't come from one. just take the 32 teams, maybe even based on tourney seeding but 8 teams from march madness second round would get jammed, but take the top 24 remaining seeds, to make tourney shorter,from March tourney and it's basically a second chance for all teams, but knowing they have different players. you just run it back in the pre-season and consider them " exhibition" games. plus gives a great way to sort out the first top 25 rankings.
St. Johns was robbed not being selected. It has to be an anti-Pitino thing. I for one look forward to the day when there's no longer a NCAA tournament.
The sooner the power conference schools leave the NCAA the better.
Do it in December. Have enough teams to be done before Christmas or 3 weekends. College football is in transition to bowl season. You could still have a Monday Tuesday game at home. It would be great way to kick off the year.
Yes, I think a few of KY's early NCAA Championships were won when the NIT was actually the better tournament.
IIRC the NIT was where the point shaving scandal occurred.
pre-season exhibition start early november, has to be a pre-season so they can sorta say the games don't count. uk and ul wouldn't play anymore if chance they were in tourney racking up their alloted non-con sched. you want it done before dec starts and finals before xmas. you'd actually want the finals before thanksgivign otherwise football bowl season and nfl playoffs start and then no one will watch. so start 1st week of nov and end the weekend before thanksgiving
This is equivalent to the football players skipping to play bowl games. Except in basketball, if 2-3 players opt out the whole team skips...
You don't have a seat at the B10/SEC table so not sure you are thinking this one through.
Until Lou Carnesca was coach, St John's could be counted on to turn down the NCAA for the NIT.
I think the last very highly ranked team to turn down the NCAA for the NIT was Marquette in 1970, because Al McGuire was certain UCLA would win the NCAA and he wanted his team to finish as champs of something (Marquette was independent then).
City College of New York basketball was 'owned' by the Jewish mobsters in NYC, for gambling purposes. A very good film could be made about it, showing CCNY players specializing with well known mobsters and their prize prostitutes, taking huge payoffs to play for CCNY, but you could not tell those truths very openly even in 1950.
While I am on the general subject, there is now way in Hell that Kansas ever could have become what it did without wide and deep connections to the Kansas City mob, which until well after WW2, until Las Vegas became huge, was easily THE most important organized crime center between Los Angeles and Chicago. Kansas City was also the home of what was then semi-pro AAU basketball. The mobsters used it to groom players for KU.
