NIT selection show

[TheAsianSensation]

1/4 through

Washington/UTA
Northwestern/Akron
Oregon/LSU
Dayton/Iowa

No MVC yet

[TheAsianSensation]

Tennessee/Savannah St
Middle Tennessee/Marshall
LaSalle/Minnesota
Miami/Valpo

[Da Coach]

NIT Bracket-

http://www.ncaa.com/content/2012-nit-bracket

Illinois State is a 7 seed

UNI is also a 7 seed

It looks like every game is on one of the ESPN networks

[TheAsianSensation]

Aw, spoilers.

Hey, 2 for the Valley!

[Da Coach]

Drexel should have gotten a 1 seed, but they get a 3 seed. Another jab.

What a shock- all 4 #1 seeds go to BCS schools-Washington, Tennessee, Arizona, Seton Hall

[TheAsianSensation]

Drexel should have gotten a 1 seed, but they get a 3 seed. Another jab.

Oral Roberts was the last team out according to the NCAA selection committee but is a 4 seed here. hahahahaha

[Da Coach]

Just noticed- Jerrance Howard will not get a chance to coach a game. Illinois is not in the NIT!
Could this have been by Illinois' choice? I doubt it, since Mike Thomas (Illinois AD) said in his press conference that they would accept an invitation to the NIT.

[Da Coach]

Illinois State, UNI, and Iowa were the last teams selected for the NIT.
All 4 #8 seeds (Savannah St., Texas-Arlington, Stony Brook, Bucknell) were conference regular season winners, and thus received automatic bids into the NIT.

Illinois State, UNI, Iowa, and Valparaiso are the #7 seeds, and Valpo was an auto bid, too.

[PTownHawkeye]

Congrats to ISU and UNI....let's see if the Valley can put another team in MSG.

[TheAsianSensation]

Just noticed- Jerrance Howard will not get a chance to coach a game. Illinois is not in the NIT!
Could this have been by Illinois' choice? I doubt it, since Mike Thomas (Illinois AD) said in his press conference that they would accept an invitation to the NIT.

I'm a bit shocked, but it's quite possible the NIT committee passed them over specifically because they fired their coach. Illinois on the surface had a better resume, so who knows.

[Old Coach]

Just noticed- Jerrance Howard will not get a chance to coach a game. Illinois is not in the NIT!
Could this have been by Illinois' choice? I doubt it, since Mike Thomas (Illinois AD) said in his press conference that they would accept an invitation to the NIT.

No this couldn't have been their choice. You are not allowed to decline an invitation.

[Da Coach]

No this couldn't have been their choice. You are not allowed to decline an invitation.

It's hard to explain otherwise. Illinois had an RPI of 91, Iowa's was 130.
Illinois' SOS was 32, Iowa's was 72.
Illinois' non-conference SOS was 138, Iowa's was 306!
Illinois did not have any bad non-conference losses, Iowa lost to #206 Campbell!

[Tulsa Brave]

My guess is that the coaching situation kept the NIT away from Illinois.

[Old Coach]

It's hard to explain otherwise. Illinois had an RPI of 91, Iowa's was 130.
Illinois' SOS was 32, Iowa's was 72.
Illinois' non-conference SOS was 138, Iowa's was 306!
Illinois did not have any bad non-conference losses, Iowa lost to #206 Campbell!

Illinois lost 12 of their last 14. Thats a good enough reason for me.

[Da Coach]

I thought teams got bid, not coaches.