Has any team went to the Final 4 and not made the NIT?

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:36 am

Don't you have like 13 other teams you pimp to fall back on?

Terry in Crapchester · Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:47 am

We feel your pain, Chip.

Sin,

George Mason

http://www.cbs.sportsline.com/collegeba ... ewable_nit

In fairness to LSU, they might have made the NIT if not for a few rule changes. First, the NIT went back to 32 teams this year, whereas they had had 40 the last few years. Second, a rule change last year gave automatic NIT bids to any team that won its regular-season conference championship and failed to earn a NCAA bid. That rule change gave automatic bids this year to 8 teams: Mississippi Valley State, Toledo, Delaware State, Marist, Austin Peay, Vermont, East Tennessee State, and South Alabama. Without it, imho only Toledo and Vermont would have even been in contention for an NIT berth.

To answer your question, I'm almost positive it's happened before, but I can't cite any examples off the top of my head.

ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2 · Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:17 pm

Jsc810 wrote:I'll find a bandwagon to get on.

If you die anytime soon (one can dream, right?)... I promise to use this in my Sig file to honor you.

With UConn sucking arse this year, I doubt I'll even be watching the NCAA Tournament. Good thing I am getting married the weekend of the Final Four. It'll give me something to do...

DallasFanatic · Post by **DallasFanatic** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:35 pm

Plenty of room on the Hoya wagon.

All Aboard!!!!!

Terry in Crapchester · Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:29 pm

DallasFanatic wrote:Plenty of room on the Hoya wagon.

All Aboard!!!!!

I'm a Notre Dame fan first and foremost, but I'll also be rooting for Georgetown in the NCAA tournament (at least until they play ND, which won't come to pass, if at all, until the national championship game).

It's not about bandwagoning, but conference loyalty, in my case.

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:34 pm

Vandy baby. the alma mater. Sooners are always number one.....and Vandy is cute sometimes (sports were a major yawn when i was there, no one cared...at all...it wasn't even something you thought about. i went a few hoops games but only 2 football games after going to Oklahoma games for 10 years......and it was pretty sad. what's the point of abusing a variety of substances to sit 20,000 people and watch Watson Brown lose to Tulane--Tulane students, serious drinkers....i was amazed.....not quite LSU fan.....but pretty impressive to my young eyes. Norman High football games had more on-the-field flava). though, Vandy had some deece hoops squads when i was there under CM Newton.

Vandy (away from home)=one and done.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:06 pm

fucking vandy. fuck kevin stallings. fuck mario moore. still bitter about 04.

Q, West Coast Style · Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:27 am

Didn't the same thing happen to Duke the year after Grant Hill left and K missed the season with back problems? They were runner-up against Arkansas and then had a losing record the next year I think.

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:44 am

Q, West Coast Style wrote:Didn't the same thing happen to Duke the year after Grant Hill left and K missed the season with back problems? They were runner-up against Arkansas and then had a losing record the next year I think.

hip surgery for K, no?

Corliss Williamson was a really good/great college player (kind of a poor man's UNLV Larry Johnson, which is a complete complement from me!)....i was surprised to see him getting time with Sacramento the other afternoon in the Nuggets-Kings game.

props to Corliss to sticking around. he might even be older than me.

helmet · Post by **helmet** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 5:57 pm

K has had both hips replaced, but those surgeries happened later. 94-95 was the back surgery.

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 6:51 pm

92 was the year Arkansas won it all, is that right?

Degenerate · Post by **Degenerate** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 6:58 pm

King Crimson wrote:92 was the year Arkansas won it all, is that right?

1994.

And they made the final in '95, losing to UCLA. That was Williamson's senior season, i think.

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:02 am

thanks degenerate. man, i'm getting old. i was having a great time back then working in the restaurant industry, screwing hot waitresses...

to quote the great Kinks: where have all the good times gone?

Terry in Crapchester · Tue Mar 27, 2007 10:32 pm

Going back to the original topic in this thread, of last year's Final Four, two made a return trip, and the other two missed the NIT this season.

If that's ever happened before, I can't remember it.