[NU Sports] Could be interesting NIT

[neonrye at aol.com]

Can't believe that we have gone from "bubble" of Dance to "bubble" of NIT.  We really need at least 2 wins in Indy to bounce back from recent woes and ensure NIT bid.

Meanwhile, for those of you not in NY area, enjoy the Oscars tonight.  Cablevision--the same idiots that own the wonderful Knicks and Rangers--are in a major fight with the Mouse House (Disney) over payments the latter is demanding to carry the local ABC affiliate on cable.  I have to drive 30 minutes to my mother-in-law to watch.  Mouse has pulled Channel 7 off the Cablevision feed.  Lovely.....

Paul Levinson






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From: Weinbaum, Willie <Willie.Weinbaum at espn.com>
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Thanks - it'd be very disappointing if this is on the mark.  Would be great if 
he Cats come up with some success in the Big Ten tourney to get in from the 
ubble. :)  
>From Blackberry - please excuse typos
W. Weinbaum
roducer
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ent: Sun Mar 07 18:25:31 2010Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Could be interesting NIT
This site, which has been historically pretty accurate and nailed our
eeding in the NIT last year, as of today has NU out of the NIT, a possible
ubble team:
http://www.nitology.com/
To answer your question, last year's Stanford team -- a major conference
eam with plenty of history and in the Final Four not long ago -- did not
ake the NIT despite a 20-14 record. They did pony up the bucks for the CBI
nd ended up making it to the semifinals of the tournament before losing to
ventual champion Oregon State.
Without a good run in the BT tourney, if NU does make the NIT, they will
ikely be no better than a #8 seed, playing a #1 seed on the road. Might not
e very pretty given the team's performance away from home this year. An
rgument could be made that the CBI might be a better chance to get some
xperience (and at least a home game out of the deal).
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Gene Topper <
topper at strategicresearchpartners.com> wrote:
> NU has clinched an NIT bid long ago....tell me how many major conference
 teams, not invited to the NCAA, with winning overall records and more than
 15 wins never made the NIT...probably none.

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  Behalf Of Scott Zeller
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 Unless NU wins at least one game in the BTT the NIT is likely out now as
 well. The CBI would be a possibility but NU would have to pony up $65K to
 host a game in that tournament -- would the school go for that? Stanford
 did
 last year and got a lot of criticism.

 On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Weinbaum, Willie
 <Willie.Weinbaum at espn.com>wrote:

 > With the likes of UConn and North Carolina along with NU.  Will be very
 > interesting to see where/which team NU plays.
 >
 > And, by the way, it was a big day y-day for a couple of teams NU has
 > beaten.  Notre Dame pulled out a thriller and now seems a likely NCAA
 > tourney team.  Iowa State upset K-State in Manhattan, depriving those
 > Wildcats of a shot at a # 1 NCAA seed.  Purdue had a tough time with Penn
 > State, but won, to solidify standing and seed in conference tourney.
 >
 > >From Blackberry - please excuse typos
 >
 > W. Weinbaum
 > Producer
 > 212-916-9864 (24-hour voicemail)
 > willie.weinbaum at espn.com
 >
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