NIT Possibility?
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??? Huh? Asking if a win today clinches an NIT bid no matter what happens with the big ten tourney. We did make the NIT at .500 before with Duncan and Hughes.
A win today. And a win first round of big ten tourney against MD or PSU, I think gets them a regional trip to a top seed like Providence or Pitt
How would anyone know ? And also irrelevant at this point
No. We will not make the NIT. You actually have to have a decent record plus a quality high net. We have neither.
Why anyone would root for this torturous season to continue is beyond me
Exactly.. make it stop. Let’s start preparing for next year.
There is no way I’d be convinced this team even wants to play Wednesday.
Take this thing out back and shoot it.
I have no desire to see this basketball product again it’s painful.
Put it out of its misery.
I have no desire to see this basketball product again it’s painful.
Put it out of its misery.
RU has to win 2 in the BTT. One win gets them to .500, but a loss in the second game drops them back below.
I was still rooting for NIT at 2pm today. But even I'm over it.
Anthony,.....Wish it into the cornfield!!!
I wish we had last year’s Simpson instead of this year’s
Lou
The answer is the criteria has changed for the NIT bids since those early Wenzel yesrs
Back then …the NIT was privately owned and they invited who they thought was the next best 32 teams , but there was a emphasis on getting Intersting match ups for getting ticket sales , and they tried to get local match ups in the early rounds….
Once the NCAA purchased the NIT, they made it a criteria for the small league regular season champ to be taken if they didn’t make the NCAA through their tournment,(they changed the rule this year, not sure to what ) and they went to ncaa style seeding and brackets to reallt take the next best 32 teams by the same criteria as selecting the ncaa
So…getting to .500 gives us a chance , but most of the NIT field is approx teams number 50 thorough 80 …and I think , even if we won 2 big ten tourney games to get to 17-17, we would be short in getting invited to the NIT….
We probably needed to finish 17-14, and won one in the BTN tourney and we would have solidly be in at 18-15
Maybe at 17-15
Hope this helps …..don’t shoot the messenger
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I think the NIT would try to feed us easier home games to get us to the garden, as long as we had a .500 record to get in
That was long ago with previous ownership
If RU got to .500% would we have received NIT bid?
I see a team RU defeated, Seton Hall, blowing out north Texas right now in the 2nd round.
3 Big Ten teams are still playing in it too.
-vic
I see a team RU defeated, Seton Hall, blowing out north Texas right now in the 2nd round.
3 Big Ten teams are still playing in it too.
-vic
We should all be grateful we didn't get a bid. All we would have done was embarrassed ourselves like we did the last two weeks of the season and like we did last year. The team quit on the season.
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