Cats will be in NIT
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I agree! Not in terms of openings in the field, but in terms of conference pecking order.
Committee made some bizarre decisions for the NCAA bracket....let's see what the NIT has in store.
Michigan State can't get a top seed, surprising several commentators. Indiana wins the B1G regular season and gets put on the five line, possibly meeting Kentucky in the second round. Not a lot of respect there.
One region with no BIG team and one with three of the top 4 BIG teams and even Michigan in a play in. Pretty much a screw job. two 9-9 teams teams out of PAC and represented in every region and an 11-7 team out of the BIG out?
LSU has announced they will not participate in the offseason. They were projected as a #5 seed or so in the NIT by some services.
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Will help, but I don't know if it's enough. My instinct is no, but I also just saw Tulsa get into the NCAA tournament so who knows.
How weird. LSU seems to be implying that anything but the ncaa tournament is below them. Maybe I'm wrong, but that can't help with recruiting.
We will see shortly. It looks like there's about 15 automatic bids for the NIT this year if my math is correct. That means there are slots for 17 at-large teams. I'm guessing about 12 to 13 or so teams will come from the top 8 conferences, which could include Northwestern. The rest would come from mid-major conferences that will come from a pool of a few non first place teams such as Evansville, BYU, maybe a couple teams from the mid-American conference, and maybe a couple more that I am missing. So the chances are still pretty good that Northwestern can make the NIT, especially if the NIT selection committee favors power conference teams like what happened with the NCAA tournament.
Well, if that happens, that means teams like Kansas State, Creighton, and Clemson will be in ahead of Northwestern. These are teams with records barely above 500, or with very high RPI's.
But I don't care about all the NIT bracketology out there. No one had Tulsa and Syracuse in the NCAA Tournament either.
Quite possibly the most drama ever wrought on the Internet (or anywhere) over a potential NIT bid in the history of mankind.
Yes...two people in one thread. It's really crazy in here, so much drama and tension.
Ohio State is going to the NIT, so unfortunately no on that front. There is no conference pecking order to selection. If the Buckeyes got into the NCAAs then NU could have had claimed to be the only qualified team from the BIG.
LSU withdrawing certainly helps though
Posted in the wrong thread. Intended for the the thread that has a play-by-play account of Tweeters and a board expert on this subject. Riveting stuff.
When Michigan State got jobbed out of a number one seed the handwriting was on the wall. The NIT spokesman was sure smug in his response refusing to identify Northwestern as a snubbed team.
I agree that there has not been anywhere near the "drama" that you think there has been. And again, I'll clarify something that I wrote on the other thread. The NIT would have been a nice reward THIS YEAR for the improvements this team made. If the NIT was the "tournament of choice" in year 5 or 6, then I would agree. Plus the NIT is still far and away the highest quality tournament not named NCAA. But, since Northwestern did not get invited to the NIT, you and a few others can now enjoy the offseason and relax.
I noticed that too Alaska. The head of the committee had zero interest in mentioning what teams just missed the cut. His explanation was "the NCAA does a 1st four out because those teams have somewhere to go".
Weird.
I agree that there has not been anywhere near the "drama" that you think there has been. And again, I'll clarify something that I wrote on the other thread. The NIT would have been a nice reward THIS YEAR for the improvements this team made. If the NIT was the "tournament of choice" in year 5 or 6, then I would agree. Plus the NIT is still far and away the highest quality tournament not named NCAA. But, since Northwestern did not get invited to the NIT, you and a few others can now enjoy the offseason and relax.
I was hoping for an NIT bid, so you can drop the passive aggressive remark at the end. Frankly, I've always like the format of the NIT better than the NCAA Tournament.
Intended or not it was also a snub to the Vegas 16 post season tournament. NIT might not be so thrilled about other alternatives actually being available for the teams they snub to go somewhere else and prove they were wrong.
