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Pre season tournaments are a great way for a mid-major to prove itself early in the season. My question is why BU is never invited to one of the premier tournaments. Of course Maui is a stretch, but the pre-season NIT or CBE would work fine. Even the South Padre Island Invitational includes a stronger field than this Chicago Invitational Challenge, which in my opinion, only fields two good teams: BU and Illinois. BU plays a good non-conference schedule, but it is not often that they play in a pre-season tournament, as a matter of fact, I can't think of the last time they did so.
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Bradley will be playing in another fine pre-season tournament next year in South Padre Island, Texas.Onward and Upward!
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1) There used to be an NCAA rule allowing schools to participate in these tourneys twice in 4 years. That has now been changed and I think it is a 'free-for-all' again starting this season.
2) I am guessing Bradley's budget isn't as huge as BCS school's to go every year.
3) And then... does Title IX apply? If the Men's Hoops team is in a tourney, then the women get fair and equal representation in a tourney. Which comes back to the budget issue.Comment
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