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Post by tastylicks on Feb 25, 2020 13:34:57 GMT -5
I think the NIT is very unlikely, even though we obviously are at the level. The bubble is just too big in general. And they have that stupid rule whereby if you finish in 1st place in the Cupcake Conference or the Paddycake Conference you get an autobid to the NIT that takes spots. The A10 already has teams like VCU, Richmond (thanks to us) and St. Louis that are outside the gate of the Dance and likely headed to the NIT. 32 spots, they aren't gonna take 4 from the A10. -- I think our chances of winning in Brooklyn, where we always play well, and stamping the dance card, is the same or better than our chances of getting an NIT invite. Especially if we end up with the 2 or 3 seed. That would mean evening games in front of half or more the living alumni base and not meeting Dayton until the finals. Get there and see what happens. But you gotta finish strong here to get there If these three teams end up behind us, we still won't get in? idk it was just my guess. I hope I'm wrong
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Post by Jive36 on Feb 25, 2020 13:46:40 GMT -5
The final conference standings have very little to do with post season invitations. It has more to do with who you beat and who you lost to than just number of wins and losses. Take UCLA for example they might finish tied for first in the Pac 12 but pretty much have to win the P12 tourney to make the dance because they lost to Hofstra and Cal St. Fullerton at home early in the year. They will probably get an NIT invite easily but Arizona, USC and Stanford could finish the regular season multiple games back in conference but because they dont have bad losses they will get at large bids.
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Post by bbb on Feb 25, 2020 15:29:57 GMT -5
The final conference standings have very little to do with post season invitations. It has more to do with who you beat and who you lost to than just number of wins and losses. Take UCLA for example they might finish tied for first in the Pac 12 but pretty much have to win the P12 tourney to make the dance because they lost to Hofstra and Cal St. Fullerton at home early in the year. They will probably get an NIT invite easily but Arizona, USC and Stanford could finish the regular season multiple games back in conference but because they dont have bad losses they will get at large bids. Whatever happened to the "last ten games" metric?!?
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Post by Jive36 on Feb 25, 2020 15:34:55 GMT -5
That is long gone - my guess is 10ish years ago that went away
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Post by ohs73 on Feb 25, 2020 16:04:03 GMT -5
bbb, Richmond should be in the NIT. Maybe SLU as well.
Interesting, 23-5 after a 1-4 start? Impressive by any measure. One would think Bona merits consideration. But committee members aren't always great thinkers, are they?
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Post by jjjacks17 on Feb 26, 2020 9:10:29 GMT -5
Our NIT stock has to be on the rise while VCUs is falling off a cliff lately, no?
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