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Post by 77SU on Mar 6, 2023 21:19:20 GMT -5
Game over. UTC loses.
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Post by Cujo on Mar 6, 2023 21:20:34 GMT -5
UTC ran into an unstoppable force tonight, the SoCon refs. Furman players seem like nice guys, especially Slawson, but what an self-entitled, self-absorbed bunch of fans. I think if Satan attended college, he’d be a Furman paladin, and his right hand man would be FUBear.
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Post by sudog03 on Mar 6, 2023 21:26:00 GMT -5
Only 20 Furman turnovers combined in all 3 games. Incredibly efficient team.
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Post by FUBeAR on Mar 6, 2023 21:30:27 GMT -5
I think if Satan attended college, he’d be a Furman paladin, and his right hand man would be FUBear. Close, but you got the wrong one drivin’ the bus!
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Post by Cujo on Mar 7, 2023 0:24:03 GMT -5
Why are only Samford people saying Samford has an NIT invite?
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Post by Smurf on Mar 7, 2023 10:19:39 GMT -5
A sizable portion of the field will be comprised of teams that won their league and lost in their conference tournament (Morehead State, Southern Miss, etc.). The rest will be filled in by power fives and higher end group of fives from the WCC, A-10, C-USA, etc.
We won 21, played a very weak schedule, played in a league with a RPI and a NET in the 20s, and lost our first game in the conference tournament. Although the NIT does grant an automatic bid to the league champ, we were co-champs and I don't believe that would qualify us. Had we won 23 or 24 we are probably in the conversation. This might be the price you pay for losing to Tennessee Southern and South Carolina State.
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Post by Cujo on Mar 7, 2023 14:10:58 GMT -5
I have seen no authority that says that the co-champion that is the #2 seed in the tournament gets an automatic bid to the NIT. For the reasons you listed below, Smurf, I too tend to think that it is unlikely. We lost two in a row to end the season, one of those in the first round of the conference tournament and . . . as you point out, the curse of Tennessee Southern casts a shadow over the season that will be hard to overcome. I just don't think we have the resume this year. It was a good year, but I do not think it was a post-season tournament level year. This is just one man's opinion.
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Post by 77SU on Mar 7, 2023 17:58:54 GMT -5
There is a guru for NIT bracketology. The site is thebarkingcrow.com/nit-bracketology/The question was asked and he answered last night. Of the multiple people that told me in Asheville that we would get a bid as long as _urman won, there was only one I deemed reliable, but someone was really good convincing everyone else. Copied for your convenience: March 6, 2023 at 8:02 pm If Furman wins there Socon tournament, does regular season co-champ Samford get an automatic bid? Joe Stunardi March 6, 2023 at 10:23 pm Samford does not get an automatic bid. Each conference can only have one team in line for the automatic NIT bid, so when there’s a tie, it goes to whoever wins the conference’s tiebreaker. With Furman winning the SoCon Tournament, neither will go to the NIT.
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Post by Cujo on Mar 7, 2023 18:52:06 GMT -5
Thank you, 77. I followed the thread to the CBI link and that guru has Samford in the CBI. Martin and Bucky would give away the football score board and half the football program for a post season berth, at any level. Quite frankly, the CBI gets me zero excited. NIT eh, I'd watch on TV, maybe attend. NCAA, I'm there hoping we pull an improbable upset for the record books, but ready for the inevitable.
I agree with this guru guy, I just don't see us having the resume for the NIT. The regular season has its consequences, whether that's the pre-conference season or the conference season--you have to win and you can't have bad losses.
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Post by 77SU on Mar 7, 2023 21:33:38 GMT -5
As described in Wikipedia:
The College Basketball Invitational (CBI) is a men's college basketball tournament created in 2007 by The Gazelle Group. The inaugural tournament occurred after the conclusion of the 2007–08 men's college basketball regular season. The CBI selects 16 teams that are not selected for the NCAA Tournament or the National Invitation Tournament (NIT), and who are willing to pay a $27,500 entry fee to participate. In the CBI, prior to 2020 teams competed on home courts. After the post-COVID pandemic revival, the tournament has been staged at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Florida. The CBI is a single-elimination tournament. Prior to 2020, the tournament was single elimination until the final two teams were determined, after which the championship was determined by a championship series with a best-two-out-of-three format. Since the tournament's 2021 revival and adoption of the single-site format, the championship is also determined by a single game. In 2023, the CBI introduced NIL funding of $40,000 to be distributed in the following manner: $25,000 to the Champion, $10,000 to the Runner-Up, and $2,500 to each Semifinalist.
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