Fox Sports starting post season tournament to compete with the NIT

[hhcmatt]

 

Fox Sports has contracts with the B1G, Big 12, and Big East. It's going after the top 2 schools from those competition that don't make the NCAA.  

 

[AuroranHusker]

Interesting, could be the beginning of the end of the N.I.T. Quite a few big-time schools passed on the N.I.T. already this season, and this could eliminate a bunch entirely, I usually watch some of the N.I.T. but I barely figured out that the Finals are *tomorrow night* at Hinkle Fieldhouse, which is odd since it had previously always been at The Mecca, MSG.

 

Edited April 3, 2024 by AuroranHusker
TMRW 4/4 -- not *today*

[hhcmatt]

Just now, AuroranHusker said:

Interesting, could be the beginning of the end of the N.I.T. Quite a few big-time schools passed on the N.I.T. already this season, and this could eliminate a bunch entirely, I usually watch some of the N.I.T. but I barely figured out that the Finals are tonight at Hinkle Fieldhouse, which is odd since it had previously always been at The Mecca, MSG.

 

I am not joking that I have Indiana St. winning in my bracket in part because I found out they were playing the Final 4 in Indiana.

I'm doing well!

 

[jason2486]

Much like the bowl system, just more watered down tournaments that kids won't want to play in if they aren't in March Madness. Unless you start throwing cash to winners like the NBA IN-Season Tournament. 

[AuroranHusker]

Indiana St. is a Cinderella story, cue Bill Murray in Caddyshack... R. Avila is Cream Abdul Jabber. He's Larry Nerd. He's College Jokic. He is Caitlin Clark. lol

 

[AuroranHusker]

6 minutes ago, hhcmatt said:

 

I am not joking that I have Indiana St. winning in my bracket in part because I found out they were playing the Final 4 in Indiana.

I'm doing well!

 

 

 

Niiiiice. I used to pay attention to it pretty closely, but I'm glad I at least figured out the Champ. Game is tomorrow ahead of Keisei Tominaga splashin' threes on ESPN.

 

[49r]

47 minutes ago, hhcmatt said:

 

Fox Sports has contracts with the B1G, Big 12, and Big East. It's going after the top 2 schools from those competition that don't make the NCAA.  

 

 

 

[cozrulz]

At some point they'll expand the ncaas to like 96

[hhcmatt]

1 minute ago, 49r said:

 

 

 

 

From their perspective, all the other channels are broadcasting college basketball and they're not.

The real interesting thing here is the timing because they're looking at the week between the Elite 8 and the Final 4.

 

Regionals (Sweet 16/Elite  -  March 27-30  

CBC -  Monday, March 31 to Sunday, April 6
Final 4/Championship - April 5th, April 7th

Possible this is a no-go because it puts you behind in Portal Combat and maybe because coaching staffs are used to travelling to the Final 4 locations for networking. 

[HuskerFever]

Quick question...how many of you knew the NIT thing as still going on this season?

 

And how many of you knew that it was Ohio State and Utah in the finals?

 

[Before everyone gets up in arms, I'm just proving a point. ]

[Vinny]

My goodness, Portal Combat is gold.

[AuroranHusker]

50 minutes ago, cozrulz said:

At some point they'll expand the ncaas to like 96

 

I think that'd be a horrible idea. I'd prefer it went back to 64, tbh. The play-in component is kind of silly... either you're "in" or you're not. 8 teams are in limbo, not great, imho.

 

 

[AuroranHusker]

29 minutes ago, HuskerFever said:

Quick question...how many of you knew the NIT thing as still going on this season?

 

And how many of you knew that it was Ohio State and Utah in the finals?

 

[Before everyone gets up in arms, I'm just proving a point. ]

 

Seton Hall and Indiana State. I figured it out earlier today, lol.

 

[hhcmatt]

1 hour ago, Vinny said:

My goodness, Portal Combat is gold.

 

I wish I could take credit

[hhcmatt]

1 hour ago, HuskerFever said:

Quick question...how many of you knew the NIT thing as still going on this season?

 

And how many of you knew that it was Ohio State and Utah in the finals?

 

[Before everyone gets up in arms, I'm just proving a point. ]

 

I watched Creme Abdul-Jabbar yesterday

[Chuck Taylor]

I LOVE college basketball and have watched a few NIT games. Indiana State is expecially fun to watch. Seton Hall reminds me of Rutgers, physical and not that skilled. Both from Joisey.

[49r]

1 hour ago, hhcmatt said:

 

I watched Creme Abdul-Jabbar yesterday

 

Yep, I watched the end of the ISU Utah game last night.

[tcp]

Portal Combat is brilliant. I can almost hear the stupid VA after yet another big name hits the portal: "fatality!"

 

 

[hskr4life]

I saw an interesting idea today for the NIT.  Someone mentioned the NIT winner getting an auto-bid to the following years tournament.  

Negatives I saw were people saying it's completely different teams from year to year... especially with NIL.  But this could be one thing that makes a team stick together.  If they KNOW they have a spot in the NCAA tournament the following year.

[Dead Dog Alley]

3 hours ago, hhcmatt said:

 

I watched Creme Abdul-Jabbar yesterday

During conditioning drills, the Indiana State staff makes sure to not make Avila get in shape, because if he did he’d be going someplace bigger.

[Art Vandalay]

4 hours ago, HuskerFever said:

Quick question...how many of you knew the NIT thing as still going on this season?

 

And how many of you knew that it was Ohio State and Utah in the finals?

 

[Before everyone gets up in arms, I'm just proving a point. ]

I watch a lot of it and love betting on NIT games. For some reason I do better on them than the NCAA.

[HuskerFever]

2 hours ago, hskr4life said:

I saw an interesting idea today for the NIT.  Someone mentioned the NIT winner getting an auto-bid to the following years tournament.  

Negatives I saw were people saying it's completely different teams from year to year... especially with NIL.  But this could be one thing that makes a team stick together.  If they KNOW they have a spot in the NCAA tournament the following year.

 

I'd imagine that gives an advantage to that team in terms of transfers into the program for that one year.

[nustudent]

4 hours ago, hskr4life said:

I saw an interesting idea today for the NIT.  Someone mentioned the NIT winner getting an auto-bid to the following years tournament.  

Negatives I saw were people saying it's completely different teams from year to year... especially with NIL.  But this could be one thing that makes a team stick together.  If they KNOW they have a spot in the NCAA tournament the following year.

The idea that I like is you forfeit a chance at the postseason the following year if you turn down the NIT bid.   That’ll keep the fringe teams like St Johns in.   

[hskr4life]

6 hours ago, nustudent said:

The idea that I like is you forfeit a chance at the postseason the following year if you turn down the NIT bid.   That’ll keep the fringe teams like St Johns in.   

This is an interesting one as well and I wouldn’t mind this either.  NIT would have been bonkers this year if some teams hadn’t turned it down.

[hhcmatt]

7 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

This is an interesting one as well and I wouldn’t mind this either.  NIT would have been bonkers this year if some teams hadn’t turned it down.

 

Hard to say as last year it seemed like there were higher seeded teams that lost last year because they didn't really care to be there.