[NU Sports] Big 10 Tournament; NIT

[Mark Ament]

As to the Big Ten tourney, my guess is there won't be a permanent site 
but the rotation between Chicago and Indy will continue.  NU and the 
Illini want to move it to Chicago permanently and IU and Purdue want it 
in Indy permanently. Everybody else doesn't want it in either one 
permanently for just that reason, so the rotation continues - besides 
that financially rotation makes sense. It's a better deal for the 
conference if you can keep the two cities bidding against each other 
than settling on just one.

As to the NIT, I think if we beat Penn State we're in.  That would make 
us 15-15 and should be enough, especially since we haven't seen too many 
conference champs get knocked off in their tournaments so far.  One rule 
change the NCAA made to the NIT this year is that all regular season 
conference champions who do not make the NCAA are automatically in the 
NIT.  I think it's a good rule but it could hurt our chances,  Since 
there haven't been many upsets, it should help us.    With our RPI, and 
good wins as well as the ability to hosts games, we should be in with a 
win and on the bubble even with a loss to PSU since the NIT will now 
accept losing records.
Mark

NEONRye at aol.com wrote:

>Interesting discussion by Mark Murphy in most recent "Murphy's Mark" as to  
>why he thinks Chicago is a better choice to become permanent Host City for the  
>BT Tourney (both men's and women's brackets) than  Indianapolis.  As he 
>notes, it's clearly in NU's interests to move  both to the Chicagoland area (The 
>women would be in the new Sears Center in  Hoffman Estates.), rather than 
>staying in "'Naptown".
> 
>On another note--and forgive my NYC provincialism, but I remember the NIT  
>when it was really an important tournament (I saw both "Pistol Pete" Maravich  
>and "Clyde" Frazier as Seniors in the NIT in two different  years.)--anybody 
>think if we beat Penn State and then fall to tOSU, whether we  get an NIT bid?  
>I would give anything to see the 'Cats play at MSG.   Even if it's not "the 
>Dance", should we make it to the NIT semis or finals, it  would be quite the 
>boost for recruiting.
> 
>Paul Levinson
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