NIT-ology (get familiar with New Mexico State)

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Might as well start looking at this. This was prior to last night's game, but Gophers projected as a #6 seed in NIT with a trip to Las Cruces, New Mexico. This tells me Gophers need to win 2 or maybe 3 more games if we wanna' avoid having to beg for a CBI or CIT invitation.

Note the potential 2nd-round matchup vs. South Dakota State, on the road.

http://nitology.com/bracket022112.html
 

Would the NIT seriously send the Gophers to Las Cruces or SD State? I thought they rigged home courts for the teams that they thought would draw better, from bigger markets. Then again...those teams might draw better...

Two or three more wins? Vomit.
 

The NIT has a true, seeded bracket now. The higher seeds get to play at home, which is the way it should be.

I suspect a Gopher rematch with South Dakota Dakota State would draw more fans in Brookings than it would in Minneapolis. Pretty sure Jackrabbit fans would be jacked to host a B1G program, much like a couple years ago when Stony Brook got to host Illinois because Illinois' Assembly Hall wasn't available.
 

SelectionSunday said:
The NIT has a true, seeded bracket now. The higher seeds get to play at home, which is the way it should be.

I suspect a Gopher rematch with South Dakota Dakota State would draw more fans in Brookings than it would in Minneapolis. Pretty sure Jackrabbit fans would be jacked to host a B1G program, much like a couple years ago when Stony Brook got to host Illinois because Illinois' Assembly Hall wasn't available.
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Agree Selection, If they played the Jacks at the barn you wouldn't have 4,500 people there.
 

ruppertflywheel said:
Agree Selection, If they played the Jacks at the barn you wouldn't have 4,500 people there.
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Maybe even closer to 3,000? For what it's worth we had 3,882 at our last NIT home game (Maryland 2008), and that was after we made a nice run in Indy and there was excitement surrounding the program after Tubby's first season.
 


We need to win another couple of games to make the NIT. We are close to being shut out altogether again. We were a three-seed hosting Stanford in his NIT-ology last week. Now, we've sunk to a six-seed playing a road game. Losses to IU and Wis would likely push MN out of the NIT projections heading into the BTT. Yikes.
 


Nice! 3 B1G teams in.

Ugh.

And, SS, are you serious about that Maryland '08 attendance? I didn't think it would be THAT bad.
 

Did we play the 2008 NIT game in the Sports Pavillion?
 





Does anyone remember why Lawrence Mackenzie only played 3 minutes in that game?
 

Pretty sure he had a bum wheel from the Big Ten Tournament. Spencer was banged up, too.
 



And, presto, we are now officially on the NIT BUBBLE!

In four weeks we have gone from:

--in NCAA tourney
--NIT #3 seed hosting Stanford
--NIT #6 seed playing at New Mexico State
--NIT #7 seed playing at VCU

As I said last week. Yikes!
 

Will the CBI take us?

Any more efforts like yesterday and we'll be fortunate if the CBI invites us. I think the CBI usually only has a couple teams from the major conferences? Oregon was the only one last year and they won it.
 

SelectionSunday said:
Any more efforts like yesterday and we'll be fortunate if the CBI invites us. I think the CBI usually only has a couple teams from the major conferences? Oregon was the only one last year and they won it.
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Is that the tournament we turned down last year?
 

If we win the CBI would that be considered a successful season?
 

Not sure, but that sounds right.

I think we're nuts if we turn down any postseason invitation this year. Put ego (of playing in a 3rd-tier tournament) and disappointment aside and play more basketball. It's that simple. Most of our team is coming back, presumably. Any extra games could be beneficial.

Anything that possibly could turn this season-ending trainwreck ending into "less of a trainwreck" would be welcome, I would think.
 


SelectionSunday said:
Any more efforts like yesterday and we'll be fortunate if the CBI invites us. I think the CBI usually only has a couple teams from the major conferences? Oregon was the only one last year and they won it.
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I don't think we would accept the invite. We turned it down last year.

The reason the CBI only has a small number of major teams is because most of them decline to invite. It is a BIG losing $$$ proposition with little return on investment (and some would say even some egg on face) for major schools. The smaller schools will take the money hit for the chance to win a lesser tourney.
 

SelectionSunday said:
Not sure, but that sounds right.

I think we're nuts if we turn down any postseason invitation this year. Put ego (of playing in a 3rd-tier tournament aside) and disappointment aside and play more basketball. It's that simple. Most of our team is coming back, presumably. Any extra games could be beneficial.

Anything that possibly could turn this season-ending trainwreck ending into "less of a trainwreck" would be welcome, I would think.
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I hope we accept any invite we get and I hope we kick #$& when we get there. However, on the flip side of all this, if we show up in the physical sense only and lose early in the CBI, we could turn this trainwreck into a plane crash.
 

tjgopher said:
No, it was at Williams Arena.
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The 2008 NIT booted the Wednesday sessions of the state girls basketball tournament over to the Pavillion. There was a bigger crowd at the tournament than there was at the Gopher game.

To this day I don't know why the ticket office A) capped the number of student tickets bought at 1 per U Card, and 2) didn't offer some sort of discount to those showing a ticket stub from the MSHSL tourney.

As for the CBI or any others, turn it down. Washington accepted a bid to the CBI a few years ago, and subsequently lost both the game at home to a terrible Wright State team, and an amount of money rumored to be near the entire operating budget for the year.
 

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