[NU Sports] NIT Seeds

[Eric West]

SjT (Stephen J. Truog) wrote:
> Automatic qualifier? For the NIT?
>
> The NCAA has seeding and is for the title - the NIT is just a side tourney to try and make money and get ratings. A 20-win team out of the Big Ten is not a reach. Stonybrook is a reach. :)
>   

The NCAA has been running the NIT since 2006, and yes, they have had 
automatic qualifiers since then (including eight this year). I seem to 
remember explaining all this to you last year.

Home-game luck aside, Stony Brook qualified automatically as a 
regular-season conference champion, as did all other #7 and #8 seeds, 
plus Kent State. The last team in was clearly Northwestern, and yes, it 
was a reach.

The NIT doesn't "seem to think" they're the NCAA, they *are* the NCAA, 
and they have been for five years now. Outdated arguments are irrelevant.


Eric West
e-west at northwestern.edu