Post by HLFanaticus on Aug 27, 2018 9:03:38 GMT -6
NIT Looking To Expand by 8 by 2020
CARBONDALE — Missouri Valley Conference commissioner Doug Elgin, a member of the selection committee for the NIT, said the second-most popular men's basketball tournament in the country is considering expanding by eight teams in the next two years.
During a teleconference with the league's men's basketball coaches and the commissioner Thursday, Elgin said the event was examining the possibility of eight teams competing on Selection Sunday of the NCAA Tournament and the next day in one proposal. Those teams would come from a pool of teams that were distinct long shots for the NCAA, and had automatically qualified for the NIT by winning their regular-season conference championships.
"What we have found out with research, is we can't disturb the current model of the 32 teams that play on that Wednesday," Elgin said. "We think that that bracket could expand from 32 teams to 40 teams, and that we could have eight teams in the NIT that are played on Selection Sunday and the next day. Four teams on Selection Sunday and four teams on the Monday that could be by teams with automatic qualification for the NIT."
Teams that were eliminated early in their conference tournaments, for example, could be prime candidates for those early four games. Elgin also said a new numerical grading system, called a composite metric, could be used to evaluate those teams in future years. The NCAA and National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) could announce a new scoring system in the next month or so that would seek to replace the RPI as the main statistical evaluator of a team's caliber.
This article was dated June 28, 2018. We can safely assume the new scoring system that the NCAA & NABC announced to replace the RPI was the NET. For the most part, this scenario would get 8 more mid-majors into NIT post season action as those level of teams would be the predominate teams affected by early conference tourney elimination. This will also effectively end or greatly alter the competitive level of the Collegeinsider.com Tourney (CIT), the College Basketball Invitational (CBI) and guarantee no resurrection of the Vegas 16, imho.
CARBONDALE — Missouri Valley Conference commissioner Doug Elgin, a member of the selection committee for the NIT, said the second-most popular men's basketball tournament in the country is considering expanding by eight teams in the next two years.
During a teleconference with the league's men's basketball coaches and the commissioner Thursday, Elgin said the event was examining the possibility of eight teams competing on Selection Sunday of the NCAA Tournament and the next day in one proposal. Those teams would come from a pool of teams that were distinct long shots for the NCAA, and had automatically qualified for the NIT by winning their regular-season conference championships.
"What we have found out with research, is we can't disturb the current model of the 32 teams that play on that Wednesday," Elgin said. "We think that that bracket could expand from 32 teams to 40 teams, and that we could have eight teams in the NIT that are played on Selection Sunday and the next day. Four teams on Selection Sunday and four teams on the Monday that could be by teams with automatic qualification for the NIT."
Teams that were eliminated early in their conference tournaments, for example, could be prime candidates for those early four games. Elgin also said a new numerical grading system, called a composite metric, could be used to evaluate those teams in future years. The NCAA and National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) could announce a new scoring system in the next month or so that would seek to replace the RPI as the main statistical evaluator of a team's caliber.
This article was dated June 28, 2018. We can safely assume the new scoring system that the NCAA & NABC announced to replace the RPI was the NET. For the most part, this scenario would get 8 more mid-majors into NIT post season action as those level of teams would be the predominate teams affected by early conference tourney elimination. This will also effectively end or greatly alter the competitive level of the Collegeinsider.com Tourney (CIT), the College Basketball Invitational (CBI) and guarantee no resurrection of the Vegas 16, imho.
