thehitcat said:So did both Yale and Princeton turn down offers? I see Dartmouth in the CIT but neither the 2nd or 3rd placed Ivies.
"With the way things played out at the end of the season, I said, if we're not in the NIT, it's one of those things where let's move on and get ready for next year," he said, adding that he announced his decision to the team prior to Thursday's game.
mabrowndog said:CBI Bracket (re-seeded after quarterfinals)
Link to site -- BEWARE OF LOUD AUTO-PLAY VIDEO
RedOctober ought to be pumped -- all three of his teams are in the field (UVM, Colorado & Stony Brook)
mabrowndog said:The New England state universities of Connecticut (NIT), Rhode Island (NIT), New Hampshire (CIT) and Vermont (CBI) all received postseason invitations.
cannonball 1729 said:Interesting that Mercer got a bid and UT Chattanooga didn't. UTC had a better record and a better in-conference record, plus they actually beat conference winner Wofford (which Mercer didn't) on the road. Also, Mercer's starting forward is out after he broke his elbow in the Socon tournament.
mabrowndog said:Worth noting:
The CIT will experiment with a 30-second shot clock in the 2015 tournament.
mabrowndog said:
That's a really great question, and I can't find anything online about any declined invitations -- nor any inquiries by Mocs fans as to why their team isn't participating anywhere. Sagarin & KenPom both have Chattanooga rated 158, while Mercer is ranked at 186 and 181 respectively.
The CBI and CIT are tournaments where there are no expenses paid by the event. Therefore, you are paying to play in this. Some schools that were invited simply declined invites because they did not want to spend the money to be in a 3rd tier event.cannonball 1729 said:
Huh. Well that certainly doesn't clear things up. I suspect that the Mocs' fans aren't particularly invested either way because the Lady Mocs are in the NCAA tournament and actually have a chance to make a bit of a run, so their attention is diverted elsewhere. But I'm involved with the Socon, so it jumped out at me that the 3rd-best team in the conference got an invite and the 2nd-best team didn't.
RedOctober3829 said:The CBI and CIT are tournaments where there are no expenses paid by the event. Therefore, you are paying to play in this. Some schools that were invited simply declined invites because they did not want to spend the money to be in a 3rd tier event.
The 30-second shot clock combined with zone defenses would be horrific for the college game. The zone should be outlawed as is but combining this with the reduced clock these games will be a long distance forced 3-point shooting contest.Infield Infidel said:I'm a proponent of the 30-second clock, but not only is the sample small, there also aren't any crappy teams included. One would think the teams in the NIT would have better offenses than NCAA teams in general. If the NCAA had a 30-second clock, I would expect the average to go up but not by 10 ppg/team
mabrowndog said:NIT UPDATE
Another upset saw 6-seed Alabama destroying 3-seed Illinois in Champagne, 79-58.
shawnrbu said:Love your updates, Dog. Want to include that Bama hosted this game because the State Farm Center is being renovated for the second consecutive offseason and was unavailable for the Illini to host. Same thing happened last year when 7-seed BU hosted 2-seed Illinois. Interestingly in 2010 8-seed Stony Brook hosted 1-seed Illinois when the arena was unavailable for basketball due to hosting Cirque du Soleil.
That was fun hosting Illinois. Almost beat them too. Bruce Weber couldn't have been any nicer.mabrowndog said:
Holy shit, I obviously had no idea it happened again this year. I recall BU getting last year's matchup, but didn't know about SBU. Thanks for setting things straight.
I guess my primary takeaway is that the U of Illinois sucks at hosting postseason basketball games.
Temple all over GW 90-77.mabrowndog said:Three games today, all in the NIT:
11:00 am - 5 G. Wash at 1 Temple (ESPN)
07:30 pm - 5 Arizona St at 1 Richmond (ESPNU)
09:30 pm - 3 Rhode Island at 2 Stanford (ESPNU)
mabrowndog said:Mother of Fuck. He took the long inbound pass, worked his way across half-court and past a defender along the right sideline (who played him about as tightly as anyone could without fouling), then leaped off the wrong (right) foot from the diamond well behind the three arc, and drilled it. What an incredible play.
You weren't the fan that SportsCenter featured last night, were you?DrewDawg said:What was cool is that it was general admission. So while it wasn't technically a sell-out, every person in the announced attendance was there because every ticket purchased was in effect a walk up. There were no stay at home season ticketholders or corporate groups that didn't use all 25 tickets, so it was possibly the largest crowd ever in that building, and because of the GA seating, it had a different vibe than usual.
Lots of fun and they fans clearly embraced the NIT, unlike some other venues.
ohmigod flashback nightmares - that's the exact same play that Gordon Heyward on Butler ran against Duke in 2010 championship game, but he had about 0.3 less seconds to get it off in time, so he missed. Terrifying.mabrowndog said:You clearly had a better view than these folks. But holy crap did that place explode...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVGaknpYCL0
RedOctober3829 said:You weren't the fan that SportsCenter featured last night, were you?
I kid, I kid.
I really think that both the NBA and college should implement the shot clock change here. The NBA shot clock always seems crazy short, and the NCAA clock feels lugubrious at times. Moving to 30 seconds feels really right for both leagues. It's a tough call with no philosophical solution, but in practice the 30 second time seems pretty reasonable.DrewDawg said:
The NIT is doing this as well, and a 4 foot restricted area.