NIT announces new team selection protocol

[apeman33]

I don't think I've watched a single NIT game since Wichita State won it whenever the hell that was. A complex selection process isn't necessary. Just pick teams 67 through 99 and match them up.

 

[Batman]

1. Get rid of the conference tournaments

2. Open the NCAA Tournament to everybody. All 355 D-1 teams. Seeded 1-355 by computer rankings

3. There would have to be 99 play-in games involving 198 teams, to reduce the field to a geometric 256. These play-in games would be played the Tuesday following the end of the regular season.

4. Top 64 teams by the rankings all host First Round Districts at their home courts. Each District will include 4 teams, the host team and three others picked strictly on geographic proximity as determined by Google Maps.

5. The first weekend of District Tournaments will reduce the field to 16. The NCAA Tournament proceeds as it does now.

6. At that point, the NIT can pick its field of 32 out of all teams eliminated from the NCAA tournament.

The CBI would like a word with you, sir.

 

[Starman]

They could call the 99 playoff games the CBI Luftballons if they want.

 

[Twirling Time]

A better comp is the UEFA Europa League, which the early-round losers in Champions League matriculate to.

Back in the day, the NIT and NCAA tournaments were held separately when both fields were smaller, and CCNY famously won both in the same year in 1950.

 

[poindexter]

Nobody pays more attention to this nothing tournament than our group.

 

[DanOregon]

NIT announces new team selection protocol and new committee members


Sixteen "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 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.

 

[jr/shotglass]

I understand UMash-Lowell going as a sacrificial lamb to, say, UCLA for a big payoff in early December.

I don't see a lot of justification for sending UMash-Lowell to, say, Pacific for a play-in game in March.

 

[Starman]

The play-in games would be grouped geographically as well.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

A better comp is the UEFA Europa League, which the early-round losers in Champions League matriculate to.

Not anymore.

 

[Batman]

The play-in games would be grouped geographically as well.

Aren't you now getting back to what the conference tournaments currently are?
At their core, because of the automatic bids, the conference tournaments serve as regional play-in games where all 362 teams have a chance at the national championship.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Aren't you now getting back to what the conference tournaments currently are?
At their core, because of the automatic bids, the conference tournaments serve as regional play-in games where all 362 teams have a chance at the national championship.

Eureka.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Aren't you now getting back to what the conference tournaments currently are?
At their core, because of the automatic bids, the conference tournaments serve as regional play-in games where all 362 teams have a chance at the national championship.

Yes, except for the few that do not earn a spot in their conference tournament. But they already eliminated themselves.