Decades ago, theNational Invitational Tournament(NIT) was the tournament that college basketball teams wanted to participate in and the championship everyone wanted to win — so much so that teams often turned down bids to theNCAA Tournamentin order to play in the NIT, whose Final Four was hel...
early-season counterpart to the postseason NIT, the inaugural NIT Season Tip-Off, boasting an impressive field, set the stage for what was to come. The original field included three teams – Louisville, Duke and Kansas – that went on to the NCAA tournament and the Final Four in the ...
Pitt finished their season 22-11 overall and 12-8 in ACC play. It concluded its season with a 72-65 loss to North Carolina in the ACC Tournament semifinals. They were named one of the first four teams to be left out of the NCAA Tournament, the selection committee revealed. ...
After the first-ever NIT cancellation last year because of COVID-19, this year's tournament was reduced from 32 to 16 teams and played entirely in North Texas, more than 1,500 miles from its usual home of New York City. The semifinals and championship game were played ou...
43 left in the second half for UAB's first lead, 47-45, since it was 15-14. The Mean Green scored 22 of the first 30 second-half points.It was the fourth meeting of the season between the teams, with North Texas winning two regular-season meetings before UAB won their m...
IIRC they proposed a post-season tournament that would air on Fox that had the best left out teams of the Big12, B1G, and Big East. Ultimately it fell through, but I think this scared the NIT, as such a move would remove any type of importance it has. They are seeing that profitab...
All soon-to-be-EX-CUSA teams. Great job Judy! 7 Quote CMJ Members 24.7k 72,470 Posted March 21, 2023 Perfect record goes poof with Rice losing by two in the CBI. Charlotte won though! 2 Quote Matt from A700 Members 5.7k 86,860...
one of the more bizarre places to serve as a home court for a Division I basketball team in the modern era of college basketball. McAlister would eventually reopen, but Nesbit’s final two teams would lose a combined 40 games anyway. Nesbit is now the head basketball coach at Roane State...
in that. There are so many good teams in college basketball, VCU proved that last year. They were one of the last teams in the NCAA Tournament, yet they go to the Final Four and there's a lot of NCAA Tournament quality teams right here in the NIT. So we are in with good company...
After finishing 17th out of 18 teams at the Arizona N.I.T., the Frogs know they need to make some adjustments. The good news is that they started to make those changes in the final round on Jan. 30. The team shot ten strokes under par 278 in its final round to finish the two-...