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NITology: Sunday Morning Update
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March 14th, 2010
by Shawn Siegel
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are guaranteed a bid. The regular-season champion from a league (depending
on the league's tie-breaker system) automatically gets a bid into the NIT. In
the NIT, the higher seed hosts, but teams are matched up within seed
geographically as opposed to a snake order. Green = new team. Arrows
represent
change in seed since last update.
ONE
Virginia Tech
Mississippi St
Seton Hall
Florida
TWO
Ole Miss
Memphis
Rhode Island
UCONN
THREE
Arizona St
Wichita St
UAB
South Florida
FOUR
Cincinnati
NC State
Alabama
Dayton
FIVE
St. John's
William & Mary
Kent St
Marshall
SIX
Miami
Texas Tech
VCU
North Carolina
SEVEN
Illinois St
Coastal Carolina
Weber St
Troy
EIGHT
Jacksonville
Quinnipiac
Stony Brook
Jackson St
Next in Line:
St Louis, Nevada, Wright St, Portland, Northeastern
Last Into NCAA Tournament:
Illinois, Wake Forest, Minnesota, Utah St
Dropped Out:
St Louis
Comments
NIT selection
Submitted by john brown (not verified) on Sun, 2010-03-14 11:13.
How can u rate VCU over Northeastern? They play in the same conference--Northeastern finished second--VCU 5th. They played twice during the season Northeastern won both games. Northeastern's strength of schedule is much stronger than VCU's. The only edge VCU has is in winning % which really is directly proportional to your schedule strength.
Harvard
Submitted by bmfc1 (not verified) on Sun, 2010-03-14 11:27.
Where's Harvard? 21 wins, a nationally known player in Jeremy Lin, a nationally known coach in Tommy Amaker, lots of alums in and near NY.
Fairfield
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 2011-03-13 16:21.
Fairfield won the regular season MAAC, therefore an automatic bid for the NIT where are they?
You are missing Harvard too, I have a feeling they will be in there somewhere.
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THOUGHTS
-- Due to the wins by Houston & New Mexico St and the swap of Minnesota for Virginia Tech on the NCAA projection, three former NCAA Teams enter the field tonight. This knocks down a lot of the prior teams and thus all the red arrows.
-- There were no conference championship upsets affecting the NIT automatic bids today.
-- St Louis is the lone team to drop out.
-- The key thing to look at in the NIT is how much the committee favors the mediocre/undeserving BCS teams like Alabama, Texas Tech, UNC, etc.. vs the quality high or mid-majors like Nevada, SLU, and Portland. As you can tell from the field here, I'm banking on the commiteee over-ranking the BCS squads.