03-12-2021, 02:43 PM
(03-12-2021, 02:27 PM)BostonCard Wrote: There's also the fact that we have laid several eggs over the last few weeks of the season. If you were the NIT, would you want that?
BC
I can't find the selection criteria for 2021, so your guess is as good as mine. All I know is that the elimination of automatic qualifiers will open up some spots, as will teams like Duke, Virginia, Kansas, etc., who have had positive Covid tests and may/will not be available for any postseason tournaments.
We'll see how it shakes out, but I think the NIT might be begging for teams with winning records from so-called power and mid-major conferences.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)