There are exactly 0 hs/portal players who are being recruited or making a decision based on a program’s NIT prospects.
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I’m not sure how MU didn’t receive an NIT bid. They beat Kent State twice including the semifinals. Did Miami decline an offer? Really sucks because they had such a great season and oh, so close to winning the tournament. Overally MU had a great year in both FB and BB. MAC runner-ups in both! I hope the team can keep players. With no seniors to lose, this team could make a serious run next year.
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I understand what Sayler is doing. The AD has to publicly stand up for his program. But our postseason tournament now is keeping the team together for next season. That is far, far more important than trying to win a consolation tournament that only has a few P5 teams in it anyway.
The goal is March Madness. The goal is to see our name and hear it announced on CBS in 363 days.
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The Dance or the NIT are the only two.
=>A bunch of kids in Africa with new t-shirts think Miami just ran the MAC this year!
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=>Crown teams:
=>Interesting…
DePaul Blue Demons
Conference: Big East
Record: 14-19 (4-16)
Bio: It’s been a roller coaster for DePaul in Chris Holtmann’s first season. The Blue Demons have played in five overtime games, barely losing to NCAA Tournament teams like Marquette and Creighton. CJ Gunn has proven to be a threat on both ends of the court, averaging 12.8 points and 1.3 steals per contest.
Colorado Buffaloes
Conference: Big 12
Record: 14-20 (3-17)
Bio: Colorado was responsible for one of the biggest surprises early in the season when they topped reigning national champion UConn in the Maui Invitational. The senior duo of Julian Hammond III and Andrej Jakimovski pace the Buffaloes with their double-digit scoring averages, while sophomore Bangot Dak registers 1.3 blocks per game.
You can’t lose credibility as a tournament if you never start with it
The Crown was pretty upfront it was just a vehicle for crappy FOX conference affiliated teams. Not surprised the field is a joke.
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Obviously MU wants to put together a good OOC schedule that balances finances, wins, couple of likely losses to top teams for experience, etc…but at end of day, the schedule and NET and KENPOM is all meaningless. The goal is the NCAA tourney and the only way that is happening is by playing your best in conference and winning three straight in March. The MAC is not going to get multi bids anytime soon, if ever, for the NCAA. The MAC is not ranked in the top 15 conferences. Playing in NIT or others is relatively speaking meaningless–its a JV tourney at best that made its mark 70 years ago when only conference champs made the NCAA.
Even then, it only made its mark because it was played at MSG and had New York media coverage while the NCAA tournament didn’t have the same national coverage. If not for that, the NIT would be the basketball version of the Camellia Bowl (or whatever it’s called now).
Ohio State has declined The Crown apparently. The nerve of a loser coach like Jake Diebler to decline anything is hilarious. Didn’t think you were allowed to anyway. We’ll take their spot.
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Please tell me our AD didn’t wake up this morning and fire off two tweets that included “riddle me this” and “true players know.” 
2? He fired off 20
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There are plenty of people posting on this thread that are upset about not getting rewarded with a postseason bid so I would not say it is meaningless. NIT games are nationally televised. Same with the Crown games. I actually think that playing in something like the CBI which is playing the whole thing at one site over 5 days might be fun to attend, especially if they play it a couple of weeks from now by which time most of the NCAA teams have been eliminated and guys might be ready to go again.
I care for two reasons:
I’d probably make the trip, and it’d likely be fun. I’ve been to plenty of totally meaningless bowl games and had good times with good friends.
Given Sayler’s reaction this morning and Steele’s comments both publicly and on supporter Zoom calls in the past: while the NCAA was the only thing on their mind, the team obviously really wanted to keep playing and the NIT mattered. I’m still reeling from Cleveland myself, and I can only imagine the team felt like they had unfinished business and wanted to go out differently. They were robbed of that chance. That’s really the important thing: if this team wanted more and were denied the chance, its a damn shame.
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Right now I care about neither this year. I am OUT!
What thread had the link to the Miami bracket contest?
Good posts by David Saylor re NIT incompetence - I know there is no return on time investment but does anyone have contact info for NIT Selection Committee members/reps- I would feel better sending a few KMA EM’s.