simple..they won their regular season conference championship and as such any school not winning the conference tourney that won the regular season title is giving an automatic bid to the NIT...its a great rule.
Also they need weak teams to play at ND to ensure ND makes it to the Garden.
Because even 18 year olds aren't as myopic as a bunch of message board posters who are paragons of loyalty and honor, and definitely wouldn't take any precautions to secure a potential multimillion dollar pay day in the NBA draft. If his teammates don't have an issue with it, nobody else should.USC/UNCA into 2OT. Entertaining. USC JR siting out game on bench since he going to enter draft. He's no longer a member of his team he quit on them. Why is he on bench?
If you are asking that question, you don't know enough to even BE on a message board.How about putting real teams in the NIT .
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