The latest knee-jerk reaction in college athletics comes at the expense of mid-major basketball programs and conferences. In a shocking announcement on October 27, the NIT Board of Managers made major rule changes to which teams can qualify for the NIT. Instead of granting automatic bids to ...
The latest knee-jerk reaction in college athletics comes at the expense of mid-major basketball programs and conferences.
For example, last season Eastern Washington won the Big Sky regular season with a 16-2 record in league play before losing to Northern Arizona in the conference tournament. The Eagles automatically qualified for the NIT, where they beat Washington State in the first round. If this season's NIT rules were in place, however, EWU wouldn't have earned a spot in the tournament and instead, everyone would've had to watch, for instance, a Colorado team that went 8-12 in Pac-12 play.
That's a fair way to evaluate a team's pedigree to a certain degree, but it discredits the accomplishments of mid-major teams who have worked all season to be the best in the regular season. For schools like EWU, and schools in small conferences across the country, it's win the conference tournament or bust.
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