(03-14-2025, 10:33 AM)Mick Wrote:(03-14-2025, 10:16 AM)82lsju Wrote:(03-14-2025, 09:27 AM)skip75 Wrote: FWIW, in yesterday's post-game presser Maxime, Oziyah, & Coach Smith all seemed pretty positive about continuing to play.
In today's DRatings update, Stanford is down to essentially a 7-seed in the NIT projection. If teams were actually seeded exactly as in this projection, a possible 1st round match up would be Stanford at USF (projected as a 2-seed). After all the travel, it would be nice to be able to play locally, if not at home. UC Irvine (2-seed) and Santa Clara (7-seed) are other California teams included in this projection.
https://www.dratings.com/predictor/bracketology/
given our travel savvy I'm guessing Santa Clara at USF and we get a trip to Irvine
Could be. The NIT has a propensity to maximize attendance AND avoid teams that have played in the regular season. USF and Santa Clara have played twice already and split, SCU crunched them by 23 and lost an OT squeaker 97-94. But of the four, SCU has the smallest seating capacity. Maples has the most (7,233) and UC-Irvine is next at 5,608. SCU and Stanford have already played each other, so I wouldn't be surprised to see USF at Stanford and Santa Clara at UCI.
I will admit I don't follow the NIT, so a dumb question, do they allow lower seeded teams host?
The first round games are during finals week for Stanford which may (or may not) impact student attendance at a home game (if there was one).
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answering some of my questions:
- in the 32 team field it looks like there are 16 "exempt" teams that will host first round games
+ Exempt teams will include the top two teams not selected to the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship from both the ACC and SEC. In addition, the top team not selected to the NCAA championship from the top 12 conferences (based on the Ken Pomeroy Rating) will receive an exempt bid to the NIT
+ each of those 16 teams hosts a first round game
so we would appear to be hoping for 1 of the other 16 spots but there could be some more automatic qualifiers
+ In addition to the exempt teams, regular-season conference champions that are not otherwise selected to the NCAA championship can earn an automatic bid to the NIT as long as that regular-season champion has an average of 125 or better across the BPI, KPI, NET, KenPom, SOR, Torvik and WAB rankings.
+ The rest of the 32-team field will be selected as at-large teams by the NIT Committee
Quote:The National Invitation Tournament Board of Managers has announced new qualification procedures for the 2025 NIT, which include bids going to 16 “exempt” teams, as well as others that may qualify automatically as regular-season conference champions.
Exempt teams will include the top two teams not selected to the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship from both the Atlantic Coast Conference and Southeastern Conference. In addition, the top team not selected to the NCAA championship from the top 12 conferences (based on the Ken Pomeroy Rating) will receive an exempt bid to the NIT. The top teams from each conference will be determined based on the average of the teams’ ESPN Basketball Power Index (BPI), Kevin Pauga Index (KPI), NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET), Ken Pomeroy Rating (KenPom), Strength of Record (SOR), Torvik ranking and Wins Above Bubble (WAB) ranking. All rankings are already included in the “Team Sheets” used by the NIT Committee during the selection process.
All teams receiving an exempt bid are guaranteed the opportunity to host a first-round game.
In addition to the exempt teams, regular-season conference champions that are not otherwise selected to the NCAA championship can earn an automatic bid to the NIT as long as that regular-season champion has an average of 125 or better across the BPI, KPI, NET, KenPom, SOR, Torvik and WAB rankings. The rest of the 32-team field will be selected as at-large teams by the NIT Committee.
https://www.ncaa.com/news/ncaa/article/2...ee-members
Eric
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