because the way we are playing we will be quickly shown the door in what ever second rate tournament we make, if we even make one. The first 10 minutes of today's game is some of the worst basketball I've seen an MSU team play in a long, long time. Auburn had a double digit lead on us midway through the first half while playing crappy themselves. We were just playing that much worse. We are rounding back into pre-conference form again now and maybe its just time we make as early a season exit as possible without worrying about playing in a tournament nobody cares about anyway. A couple of years ago playing in the NIT was exciting because we were actually playing our best ball toward the end of the year and had a legitimate chance to win it, not so with this team though.</p>