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C'mon Dave! Me, ....trolling......??? Never have, Never will. I would have thought you'd know me by now😇 A bball fan and critic but never a troller. 🙂At first I thought this post was trolling but I read up on it. It’s true but not exactly how it’s worded..
What this actually is, is the creation of an official womens NIT - the NCAA owns and operated the mens NIT, but the current “WNIT” is owned by a private company - a gender equality firm did a study and said the NCAA must provide equal opportunity to both the men and womens teams, so that’s why they are creating their own 32-team WNIT, so they pay for and support the same number of teams in the postseason on both mens and womens sides.
Sadly, what this probably means is the current “WNIT” goes bankrupt in a few years if not right away. They are a private company and would basically be relegated to now not even the next 32 teams out, but the ones after that (the CBI basically, on the mens side).
So basically, all this is doing is taking the womens NIT and bringing it under the NCAA banner - which will probably be a good thing because it will hopefully mean more money to the schools, and potentially a TV deal as well for the tournament.
Here is the link
DI board endorses modernization recommendations - NCAA.org
The Division I Board of Directors on Thursday endorsed the Division I Transformation Committee's final report and recommendations and referred concepts to respective
The current WNIT was a 64 team field, featuring a guaranteed team from every conference, the team not in the NCAA's with the best record IIRC. To me there is no way there is enough teams to fill 2 WNIT's under any name. Incidentally, there is a women's CBI - the WBI. An 8 team 3 round tourney currently being played at a single location to almost no fans. Won by St. Mary's last year. All mid-majors.At first I thought this post was trolling but I read up on it. It’s true but not exactly how it’s worded..
What this actually is, is the creation of an official womens NIT - the NCAA owns and operated the mens NIT, but the current “WNIT” is owned by a private company - a gender equality firm did a study and said the NCAA must provide equal opportunity to both the men and womens teams, so that’s why they are creating their own 32-team WNIT, so they pay for and support the same number of teams in the postseason on both mens and womens sides.
Sadly, what this probably means is the current “WNIT” goes bankrupt in a few years if not right away. They are a private company and would basically be relegated to now not even the next 32 teams out, but the ones after that (the CBI basically, on the mens side).
So basically, all this is doing is taking the womens NIT and bringing it under the NCAA banner - which will probably be a good thing because it will hopefully mean more money to the schools, and potentially a TV deal as well for the tournament.
Here is the link
DI board endorses modernization recommendations - NCAA.org
The Division I Board of Directors on Thursday endorsed the Division I Transformation Committee's final report and recommendations and referred concepts to respective
Nobody "has" to do anything The NCAA made this decision of its own volition. I have no idea how it will do financially. If a private company could make it work financially, I assume the NCAA can.
