Tournament Choice?

[billpickles]

Question. Should a team that really isn't very good be allowed to reject an invitation to the NCAA tournament and apply to the NIT instead?

 

[CysRage]

I don't know why anyone would reject an NCAA bid whether they deserve it or not. The NCAA tournament is the ultimate destination for every team in D1. Even if you fully expect to do better in the NIT than in the NCAA, nobody cares for the NIT except the teams playing in it (and even some teams in it don't care. IE Kentucky last year). Ask anyone outside of Baylor and Iowa fans who won the NIT tournament last year..nobody will know or care.

 

[Thomasrickj]

Why the heck would you turn this down? Every school seeded 13-16 would then turn down an offer to the dance because they would obviously have a better chance at winning in the NIT than the big tourney.

I can understand how a school like Indiana turns down the CIT (didn't even know that was a tournament until last year) when they have such a strong tradition and being put in that tourney is just embarrassing. But, no, you don't turn down an NCAA invite just to win in the NIT.

 

[CYGRAD76]

It can be about more than winning. If you have a young team that has only started to play better basketball near the end of the season, you might prefer to have the greater chance to play more games than be a likely one and done.

 

[ILiftWithRoyce]

i don't think you should be able to turn down a low seed in the tourney in favor of the NIT. Thats like the 8th grade football player that gets put on the "B" team turning that down and asking to play on the "D" team instead

 

[JWIL4CY]

It doesn't matter if they let you do it because no one in their right mind would turn down the NCAA for the NIT.

 

[ThurgoodMarshal]

i don't think you should be able to turn down a low seed in the tourney in favor of the NIT. Thats like the 8th grade football player that gets put on the "B" team turning that down and asking to play on the "D" team instead

I would almost say it's more like an 8th grader making the "B" Team and then asking to play on the 7th grade "A" Team instead.

 

[chuckd4735]

I'm pretty sure you can turn down an NCAA Tournament bid if you want. It just that no one is that stupid.

 

[Cyientist]

It's a disservice to the seniors on the team to not let them have a chance at the big dance. I don't buy the hype that the extra practices and handful of games go a long way to improve your team in the following year. I think that improvement is fairly marginal.

 

[ISC]

I voted yes. I mean if the university is stupid enough to choose the NIT over the ncaa tournament, let them. not sure anyone would ever do it, but you never know.

 

[bawbie]

I'm pretty sure you can turn down an NCAA Tournament bid if you want. It just that no one is that stupid.

Well.... apparently 50% of the voters in this poll that stupid.

 

[Max57]

Take it a step further ... Call it the Losers' Tournament

... and NCAA first/second round losers (i.e., play-in losers and actual 1st round losers) from the NCAA go to the second round of the NIT. The other teams that didn't make the NCAA play first round NIT "play-in" games to see who will play the NCAA losers.

That makes about as much sense.

 

[jpete24]

Take it a step further ... Call it the Losers' Tournament

... and NCAA first/second round losers (i.e., play-in losers and actual 1st round losers) from the NCAA go to the second round of the NIT. The other teams that didn't make the NCAA play first round NIT "play-in" games to see who will play the NCAA losers.

That makes about as much sense.

This would actually be a cool idea, but it would dilute the NCAA prime time winners tournament a bit, and they wouldn't want that.

 

[CoKane]

I voted yes because if someone wants to be an idiot who am I to stop them?

 

[VeloClone]

I voted yes. I mean if the university is stupid enough to choose the NIT over the ncaa tournament, let them. not sure anyone would ever do it, but you never know.

You rang?

 

[Prone2Clone]