If you are a basketball coach or fan going to the NCAA is what it is all about. I can enjoy the NIT. I'll go and cheer as loud as if we were in the NCAA, but to say we are satisfied with being in the NIT is just wrong. We may be satisfied with being in the NIT as opposed to not playing anywhere. This year we can win some games in the NIT to rub the noses of the NCAA Selection Committee for leaving us on the outside looking in.
NCAA is starting to put teams in the NIT out of place...
By now I'm sure that many are starting to understand that the NIT is sprinkling its field teams that should have gone to the NCAA. That's what happens when you have a monopoly. Alabama is near and dear to my heart but don't think that Wichita State, New Mexico, Miami, and Virginia Tech aren't complaining either. It is still difficult to know exactly when you will play, but at least we have a better idea of where we will play. By putting the Alabama game on Monday night the NIT is making a marquee game between the Tide and the Lobos. To me, it is like an open admission by the NCAA of saying "here are two NCAA teams" playing in the NIT. Mark Gottfried is correct on this one. Only delusional thinkers could begin to imagine that the going to the NIT is as important as going to the NCAA. If it makes you feel better to think so then go right ahead. Ask the Alabama players if they are the same. And by the way Mark seems to have found a niche in broadcasting. Good for him.
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