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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NIT field boasts big-name teams
Conference upsets leave many schools out of NCAA pairings
The Associated Press
A. Coastal Carolina, Rider, Coppin State, Wright State, Delaware.
Coming off five years in Antarctica, out of touch with college basketball, you are asked which tournament is the NCAA and which is the National Invitational Tournament.
B. UNLV, Georgetown, Oklahoma,
Ohio State, Houston.
Say this for the NIT, which got the teams from Column B. It may not have the records, but it sure has the names, thanks to some upsets that led to such unexpected NCAA entrants as Missouri, Texas Tech and Evansville, surprise winners of conference tournaments.
Two of the 32 teams in the NIT field — UNLV and Georgetown — have won national championships in the past decade. Four more — Oklahoma, Georgia, Providence and Houston — also have made it to the Final Four during that period.
And half the NIT field has been to the NCAA Sweet 16 in the past 10
years.
"Given some of the teams in the tournament, it's taken on some credibility it hasn't seen in recent years," said Wisconsin coach Stu Jackson, whose Badgers made it at 14-13 and are one of four Big Ten teams in the field.
"You've got to think the NIT is jumping for joy."
In fact, so laden with names is the NIT field that Wisconsin-Milwaukee, whose 23-4 record was the best of any independent, is not going despite a win against Jackson's Badgers.
"If you look at all the teams in the NIT, because of what happened in the NCAA field, they've got very, very strong teams, very established teams that everybody knew," said Wisconsin-Milwaukee coach Steve Antrim.
"We played well enough to be in there, but we're not an established program," Antrim said. "When established teams are available to the NIT or the NCAA, I think they select those programs."
Like Georgetown. The Hoyas are one of four Big East teams in the NIT field, benefiting from a down year by a conference that normally gets five or six teams to the NCAA and drops its leavings in the NIT.
But with Syracuse on probation and
mediocrity in the middle, the Big East got only three NCAA bids, its fewest since 1981, leaving the Hoyas, along with Connecticut, Boston College and Providence to the NIT field.
"My job is to get as much experience for this team as I can." Thompson said. "They have to mature a lot."
"Iam not in a position to turn down anything" Georgetown coach John Thompson said when the Hoyas, 16-12, got their NIT bid after making 14 consecutive NCAA appearances and reaching the Final Four three times.
One thing the NIT is without is the local flavor it might have gotten had Manhattan not won the Metro Atlantic Conference title and made it to the NCAA for the first time since 1958. Two other New York-area teams, St. John's and Seton Hall of the Big East, are relatively high NCAA seeds and the other local teams were not good enough to quality.
That leaves Connecticut, about 100 miles from Madison Square Garden, as the closest thing to an area school that will draw fans to the Final Four
talk with drawers.
But there are georgeetowns, Ohio colleges, Providences, Boston Colleges and other schools with local alumni to give tournament officials hope for some decent crowds in the finals.
Sooners get another chance in NIT
Sooners ge Oklahoma's Tubbs says team could win 32-team tournament
The Associated Press
After a tough season and a lot of close calls, Oklahoma coach Billy Tubbs looks at the National Invitational Tournament as a chance to have some success.
"Realistically, we might have a chance to win this thing." Tubbs said of the 32-team tournament that begins today.
The Sooners, 19-11, will be at home for a first-round encounter against Michigan State, 15-12, in the NIT.
In other games today, Florida, 16-11;
is at Minnesota, 17-10; Georgia, 15-13.
at West Virginia, 16-11; Miami of Ohio,
20-8; at Ohio State, 15-12; Rice, 17-9;
at Wisconsin, 14-13; and Southern Cal,
16-11; at UNLV, 21-7.
Tubbs was not pleased with being left out of the NCAA Basketball Championship, but said, "It epitomizes our season. We got beat by a lot of close calls."
Of the Sooners' 11 losses, six either came in overtime or by four points or fewer.
"Any time we have a chance to play, we're going to do it." Tubbs said. "We've had a tough season. This is a chance to get together and have some success."
Oklahoma, with only a 9-10 record since the first of the year, is in the NIT for the second time in three years. While he may be disappointed by being left out of the NCAA field, Tubbs knows his Sooners have a goal
With a victory against Michigan State, Oklahoma would have its 12th consecutive 20-victory season. The Sooners kept that string all years ago only by reaching the game of the NIT. They ended that year
Michigan State coach Jud Heathcote believes the Sooners are one of the top teams in the field.
"We think it's time to step up our level of play, and having to play Oklahoma is a challenge and one we can rise to," said Heathcote, who preferred to be playing at home.
The Spartans have a 6-7 road record. "Our record on the road is about like our record at home — kind of crumy," Heathcote said. "If we had our druthers, we certainly would rather play at home."
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