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Re: Bigger Accomplishment: NIT Title vs. First Four win?
« Reply #25 on: March 31, 2017, 11:49:04 AM »
NCAA tournament appearances are the gold standard for basketball currency.  NIT is like bitcoin.

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Re: Bigger Accomplishment: NIT Title vs. First Four win?
« Reply #26 on: March 31, 2017, 11:52:24 AM »
TCU will be better than us next year....no question...

so will about 6 or  other teams in the league... Oh and Oklahoma.

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Re: Bigger Accomplishment: NIT Title vs. First Four win?
« Reply #27 on: March 31, 2017, 11:53:10 AM »
I'll take the First Four 'ship thank you.    :cheese:

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Re: Bigger Accomplishment: NIT Title vs. First Four win?
« Reply #28 on: March 31, 2017, 11:57:07 AM »
TCU will be better than us next year....no question...

so will about 6 or  other teams in the league... Oh and Oklahoma.
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Re: Bigger Accomplishment: NIT Title vs. First Four win?
« Reply #29 on: March 31, 2017, 12:07:56 PM »
what a weird thing to debate

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Re: Bigger Accomplishment: NIT Title vs. First Four win?
« Reply #30 on: March 31, 2017, 12:08:45 PM »
Would you rather have an NIT Championship or one of your women players win the 3pt competition?

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Re: Bigger Accomplishment: NIT Title vs. First Four win?
« Reply #31 on: March 31, 2017, 12:22:23 PM »
Only the bluest of the blue have both an NCAA and an NIT so it's a good start.
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Re: Bigger Accomplishment: NIT Title vs. First Four win?
« Reply #32 on: March 31, 2017, 02:10:33 PM »
I would absolutely rather lose in the first round of the tournament than win the nit and it isn't particularly close. I watch the nit and I have no idea who won it last year. I could absolutely list every P5 school who made last year's tournament.

you watch the NIT? why?

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« Reply #33 on: March 31, 2017, 02:41:10 PM »
Would you rather have an NIT Championship or one of your women players win the 3pt competition?

The biggest accomplishment is being in the first round of the NCAA tournament.  Nobody is watching the first four, NIT, or college 3 pt contests.

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« Reply #34 on: March 31, 2017, 02:58:53 PM »
No way in hell could I name every P5 tourney team from last season

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« Reply #35 on: March 31, 2017, 03:00:44 PM »
Winning the NIT used to be springboard for teams making the NCAA the following season, but not recently. In the past 8 seasons only 2011 WSU and 2013 Baylor made the NCAA the next season.

I remember laughing at South Carolina for winning it back to back under Dave Odum.

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« Reply #36 on: March 31, 2017, 03:02:34 PM »
Would you rather have an NIT Championship or one of your women players win the 3pt competition?

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Re: Bigger Accomplishment: NIT Title vs. First Four win?
« Reply #37 on: March 31, 2017, 03:03:48 PM »
I would absolutely rather lose in the first round of the tournament than win the nit and it isn't particularly close. I watch the nit and I have no idea who won it last year. I could absolutely list every P5 school who made last year's tournament.

you watch the NIT? why?

How is it any different than watching a K-State vs. Texas Tech regular season game?

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Re: Bigger Accomplishment: NIT Title vs. First Four win?
« Reply #38 on: March 31, 2017, 03:04:51 PM »
i caught four or five of them this year, its basketball? :dunno:

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Re: Bigger Accomplishment: NIT Title vs. First Four win?
« Reply #39 on: March 31, 2017, 03:11:13 PM »
Winning the NIT used to be springboard for teams making the NCAA the following season, but not recently. In the past 8 seasons only 2011 WSU and 2013 Baylor made the NCAA the next season.

I remember laughing at South Carolina for winning it back to back under Dave Odum.

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Re: Bigger Accomplishment: NIT Title vs. First Four win?
« Reply #40 on: March 31, 2017, 05:54:30 PM »
I would absolutely rather lose in the first round of the tournament than win the nit and it isn't particularly close. I watch the nit and I have no idea who won it last year. I could absolutely list every P5 school who made last year's tournament.

you watch the NIT? why?

How is it any different than watching a K-State vs. Texas Tech regular season game?

I would never watch K-State vs Texas Tech if I didn't go to K-State. You enjoy the game much more than I do. I can appreciate that.

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Re: Bigger Accomplishment: NIT Title vs. First Four win?
« Reply #41 on: March 31, 2017, 10:17:13 PM »
Why settle for 69th when 68th is available? :excited:

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« Reply #42 on: March 31, 2017, 10:29:50 PM »
An NCAA Rnd of 64 loss is always better, but an NIT title for a program that hasn't been to the NCAAs since 1998 and hasn't even been to the NIT since 2005 (CBI in 2012) is a good thing. An NIT title for a program that has been in the NCAAs regularly for a decade and has an Elite 8 in that time frame is pretty worthless and sad.

how many 'ships does our program have? so many we turn our nose up at an NIT title?

It depends a little on where your program is that year. Even with us picked 9th in the preseason poll, no one was gonna be thrilled with NIT champs on Nov 1. Even more so when we were at 4-3 in the B12 late January.

For TCU, it's a cool thing for them. They finished strong after being  3-10 to finish B12 Reg Season

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Re: Bigger Accomplishment: NIT Title vs. First Four win?
« Reply #43 on: April 01, 2017, 02:59:53 PM »
The NIT championship would be more fun. Making the tournament is a bigger deal for the program, though.

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Re: Bigger Accomplishment: NIT Title vs. First Four win?
« Reply #44 on: April 02, 2017, 08:15:03 AM »
A lot of trolls outing themselves ITT. What kind of loser wants a crappy consolation trophy instead of competing for a championship. You are the reason we can't have nice things.

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Re: Bigger Accomplishment: NIT Title vs. First Four win?
« Reply #45 on: April 02, 2017, 09:20:22 AM »
A lot of trolls outing themselves ITT. What kind of loser wants a crappy consolation trophy instead of competing for a championship. You are the reason we can't have nice things.

yeah, making the tornament* this year is definitely guiding us toward nice things and healing the program, idiot

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Re: Bigger Accomplishment: NIT Title vs. First Four win?
« Reply #46 on: April 02, 2017, 09:25:22 AM »
What is a bigger accomplishment? Summiting K2 or dying at the Mount Everest base camp?

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Re: Bigger Accomplishment: NIT Title vs. First Four win?
« Reply #47 on: April 02, 2017, 10:41:54 AM »
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Re: Bigger Accomplishment: NIT Title vs. First Four win?
« Reply #48 on: April 02, 2017, 10:47:07 AM »
A lot of trolls outing themselves ITT. What kind of loser wants a crappy consolation trophy instead of competing for a championship. You are the reason we can't have nice things.

yeah, making the tornament* this year is definitely guiding us toward nice things and healing the program, idiot

First of all, you can remove the asterisk as we clearly made the field of 64. Second, I'm not addressing the state of our program, just the loser mentality that some folks around here would rather win a door prize than play to win it all. You can kindly GTFOOH if you don't want a Natty.

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Re: Bigger Accomplishment: NIT Title vs. First Four win?
« Reply #49 on: April 02, 2017, 10:49:35 AM »
^ actual irl post