I disagree, for that exact reason. A tournament means more practice time for the young players, a tournament experience, and a chance for the coaches to get an extra game or two to try rotations for next year.
Remember after 2004 people thought that run meant something . Well, we stunk like hell the next season .
Yea, and that’s fair. That 04-05 team lost its 3 most productive bigs in Herve, Axani and a breaking out Adrian Hill who was lost to the year with an injury. This team should be more physical next season and I think scoring is more easily replaced than some intangible things. Remember when half the board lost their minds when Corey left? Guys step up
Why didn’t we make up that game? Another win would have been nice optics wise and maybe more bench playing time?
Yes, like three years ago. (Nebraska and Penn St.)
Right now we are no where close to getting an NIT bid. Carino tweeted out an NIT bracketokogist, and RU was not in his field.
Sad that we are begging to get on the NIT bubble. This is not the business Harper and geo came back to finish
Very rare. Even .500 in the league is almost a lock. We have that Lafayette loss hanging over their head.
Yes Nebraska recently missed at 13-5 big ten record. @ScarletDave
Of course this isn't 100%, but Brad is one of the most accurate bracket guys in the nation. He is very good at what he does.
Ok that’s good. I was confused because this was an NIT thread. Hoping for 13-7 and will settle for 12-8 now !
Careful there are some Super sheep who will report you and get this thread taken down.
Illinois and Purdue are the class of the league. Best hope is for Wisconsin or Michigan State to somehow steal the regular season title (or finish #2 and #3) and put Illinois and Purdue on the same side of the bracket.
The NIT went stupid
The at Purdue game should reveal a lot before all of this
Because they should like to fill up the garden for the final four. At least the old management did
I guess not since they have not wavered in allowing a local team with a near
I’m talking about one or two at most local teams….. maybe just one
Not believing that about RU and Carino.if we get 16-17 wins at worst we get an NIT bid. Now none of us want that outcome but an RU team in a top conference makes it. Doesn’t the Hall have a similar overall record at this point? Are they in the NIT bracketology.
This team can beat almost anyone on a given day and then look like the worst team in the country the next. That’s a mental toughness thing to me, since they are capable, but people don’t want to hear that because we’ve shown that we can be tough at times. Regardless, this team has enough trouble stringing two well played games in a row so that it will be virtually impossible to string 4 or 5 together. This team lacks veteran leadership from Geo and Harper, although we did get some from Mulcahy on Saturday.
Doesn't matter anymore. The NCAA owns the NIT and makes enough $$ from thE NCAA Tournament that MSG could be totally empty and it won't matter. The NIT invite the teams that earned bids, not local team who can bring fans.
