(03-18-2024 03:10 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  

(03-18-2024 03:07 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(03-18-2024 02:22 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  Here's an article with a paragraph on each of the teams sitting out the NIT.
St. John's, Pitt, Oklahoma, Memphis, Ole Miss, and Indiana.

https://dknetwork.draftkings.com/2024/3/...ss-indiana

St. John's probably had good reason to, since Rick Pintino called out his team for not being athletic enough during the regular season. He wants to get started on next season.

No good reason for Pitt though.

Syracuse says they were invited to the NIT but declined also.
https://www.localsyr.com/orange-nation/n...asketball/

I wonder if Cuse and St. John's would have accepted if the NIT final four were still in Madison Square Garden.

The NCAA thoroughly ruined the NIT the last 20 years. It was great when it was a New York City event. Pre-season and post. I seem to remember it around Thanksgiving at MSG when I was a kid. Now they've even put it on Long Island smh

(03-19-2024 08:25 AM)esayem Wrote:  

(03-18-2024 03:10 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  

(03-18-2024 03:07 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(03-18-2024 02:22 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  Here's an article with a paragraph on each of the teams sitting out the NIT.
St. John's, Pitt, Oklahoma, Memphis, Ole Miss, and Indiana.

https://dknetwork.draftkings.com/2024/3/...ss-indiana

St. John's probably had good reason to, since Rick Pintino called out his team for not being athletic enough during the regular season. He wants to get started on next season.

No good reason for Pitt though.

Syracuse says they were invited to the NIT but declined also.
https://www.localsyr.com/orange-nation/n...asketball/

I wonder if Cuse and St. John's would have accepted if the NIT final four were still in Madison Square Garden.

The NCAA thoroughly ruined the NIT the last 20 years. It was great when it was a New York City event. Pre-season and post. I seem to remember it around Thanksgiving at MSG when I was a kid. Now they've even put it on Long Island smh

As the Big Ten has achieved more and more power, college sports have deteriorated. Coincidence, or cause & effect?

(03-19-2024 09:54 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(03-19-2024 08:25 AM)esayem Wrote:  

(03-18-2024 03:10 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  

(03-18-2024 03:07 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(03-18-2024 02:22 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  Here's an article with a paragraph on each of the teams sitting out the NIT.
St. John's, Pitt, Oklahoma, Memphis, Ole Miss, and Indiana.

https://dknetwork.draftkings.com/2024/3/...ss-indiana

St. John's probably had good reason to, since Rick Pintino called out his team for not being athletic enough during the regular season. He wants to get started on next season.

No good reason for Pitt though.

Syracuse says they were invited to the NIT but declined also.
https://www.localsyr.com/orange-nation/n...asketball/

I wonder if Cuse and St. John's would have accepted if the NIT final four were still in Madison Square Garden.

The NCAA thoroughly ruined the NIT the last 20 years. It was great when it was a New York City event. Pre-season and post. I seem to remember it around Thanksgiving at MSG when I was a kid. Now they've even put it on Long Island smh

As the Big Ten has achieved more and more power, college sports have deteriorated. Coincidence, or cause & effect?

The Big Ten should have signed an umbrella deal with the Pac and kept the entities separate, but facilitated all non-conference games though the conferences to keep the money up. What they did instead is detrimental to the state of college athletics.

I can say something similar of the SEC. They were working with the Big XII, until they decided it was time to strike for oil in Texas. But I seem to recall the Big Ten striking for corn first

Admittedly, the ACC did put the Franken-monster BE football conference out of its misery, but the intentions were very clear from day 1 that the ACC had interest in Miami and Syracuse. It was actually their commissioner who was fighting for the non-football schools to keep the football playing schools in tow. If football wasn't on the table, the Big East would have NEVER invited in Miami, Rutgers, WVU, and finally Virginia Tech. In retrospect, the ACC should have brought in either the three football playing schools as football-only members or Miami to essentially killed the monstrosity before it got out of the lab.

(03-18-2024 08:07 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  

(03-18-2024 03:10 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  

(03-18-2024 03:07 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(03-18-2024 02:22 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  Here's an article with a paragraph on each of the teams sitting out the NIT.
St. John's, Pitt, Oklahoma, Memphis, Ole Miss, and Indiana.

https://dknetwork.draftkings.com/2024/3/...ss-indiana

St. John's probably had good reason to, since Rick Pintino called out his team for not being athletic enough during the regular season. He wants to get started on next season.

No good reason for Pitt though.

Syracuse says they were invited to the NIT but declined also.
https://www.localsyr.com/orange-nation/n...asketball/

I wonder if Cuse and St. John's would have accepted if the NIT final four were still in Madison Square Garden.

We just had two kids portal (Justin Taylor from VA and Quadir Copeland from Philly). I think that was the biggest factor.

The portal has ruined college basketball for me. These kids are now all hired mercenaries. Football, though not quite as bad is also being ruined. SU has a kid that left SU, for I think, LSU a season ago. He just returned back to SU this upcoming season. Some times, these kids learn that the grass and the money is not always greener elsewhere.