Question is would it have been NIT or the new Crown. If the latter pretty easy to understand, If the former, getting tourney experience might have helped for the futureNor does it make sense to me, unless Collins wants to flex that NU is now among the basketball elites that can brag about turning down the NIT.
Or it might be that Collins would accept an invitation to play in the NIT, but due to contractual obligations between the Big Ten and Fox, he would have to play in the Crown instead, and he doesn't want to play in the Crown.
I don't know.