it wouldn't make much sense due to all the team turnover year to year. they could do the same thing for the champs the next year.

Meh they wouldn’t be any worse than some of the crap teams that make it by winning their conference tournament. And it would definitely drum up more interest.

goodman is so brutal on the sideline

NIT getting an auto bid the following season would be awesome

Teams might tank into the NIT?

What would the point of that be? What teams this year would tank for example?

When the NCAA Tournament is such a crapshoot why would you give up a lock bid to tank the NIT for the chance at a lock bid next season? Makes no sense

i assumed he was jokin

Yeah I don't think any team is going to tank when they're a bubble team to get into a 32-team single elimination tournament to get an auto-bid to the next tournament.

The NIT is fine, it's a nice thing to fill the midweek slots during the NCAA Tournament and give true basketball junkies their fix but it's nice and non-serious enough for the rest of us to ignore it.

A team that has that guarantee might retain more players, and possibly pick up a good recruit, or at least a good Grad Transfer, if they knew they would be Dancing.

Auto-bid to at least the first four would be a fair compromise. IF they make the top 64 anyways then just proceed as normal.

UNC's Little stole dook's thunder at last night's McD all-star game taking the MVP award. Love it when a recruit is compared to Vince Carter.

How serious is Zion's thumb injury (it looked pretty serious on replay)?

Zion is a lot bigger/fatter than I thought he would be. Still a stud though.

Yeah, 6’5, 270 is gigantic for a basketball player. Imagine how explosive he’ll be if he slims down a little bit

wow yeah didn't realize he wasn't a 4/5 before last nights game....that's huge for a 17 year old.

What do you mean it "wouldn't make much sense" ?

It's *different*, and American sports are very "every season must be totally separate from every other season" unlike European sports, where seasons overlap (making the top-x in your league this year qualifies you for champions league next year, doing poorly this year relegates you to a lower division next year, etc).

The exception being college football where de jure every season is different but de facto the way you finish last season has a huge impact on what you are able to accomplish the following season, especially for mid majors trying to crack the playoffs or the auto bid.


The field of 64 is obviously not constructed in order to put the 64 best teams in there. The smaller conference champions are often worse than 95% of power 5 teams. It's constructed to be *entertaining*

Watching the Dukes and Michigan States and Virginias of the world play early round games against the little guy champs is entertaining because the upsets are awesome (unlike random Iowa State over Kansas upsets) and generate headlines. And perhaps more importantly, allowing a handfull of bad teams into the tourney is good because it rewards the teams who had great seasons and earned 1 seeds versus the teams who earned like 3 or 4 seads who are often almost as good as the 1 seeds but didn't perform as well, and it also ensures that it's more likely that the really good teams go deeper.


Idk, I'd mostly say it "makes sense" because it adds entertainment without costing you much. If Penn State gets into next year's dance instead of next year's equivalent of ASU or UCLA, who really cares? Replace a mediocre team with a possibly worse mediocre team isn't much of a cost, but making the NIT way higher stakes is pretty cool.

bazely to the G League

I'm going to ****ing kill myself

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Congratulations to Tony Bennett, AP Coach of the Year!

Well deserved. A season no UVa fan will ever forget!

Good on him. Screw the NCAArtel

Why don't more players do this?

Better coaching, more games (?), get paid....

Because players at Duke and Kentucky make more money there.

How much money could a McDonald's all american make in Europe playing for a year (or two if they skip senior year)?

Brian Bowen got paid 100k under the table tax free to commit to Louisville for a year while all his food and housing is paid for if he ends up at Louisville and isnt outted by the FBI probe. Thats just what we know too
Who knows if his family could ask for more at any time during his stay at Louisville.

The G league alternative is what, less than 30k and is taxable?

The lifestyle and the resources are much better at the college level. There was a podcast a month or so ago where they were interviewing a G League coach and he admitted this. Even having 24/7 gym access isn't a given in the G League. And the G League teams don't care about the player's development because there is only a 1/30 chance that that player will be in the organization after he is drafted.