VCU perplexed at NIT exclusion

[RamboRowdy]

The NCAA announced a revamped selection process starting with the 2006 tournament. The main highlights are:

* Teams are no longer required to have .500 or greater records to receive bids. Even with this change, however, all teams receiving invitations for the NIT, with the exception of North Carolina in 2010, have had a record greater than .500.
* Similar to the automatic bids the NCAA Tournament grants for all conference tournament champions, all teams that won regular-season conference championships but failed to earn NCAA tournament bids are guaranteed places in the NIT.

Just found this.

 

[VCU Finance 2008]

Not entirely true, you can still hold "practice" until the National Championship game is played regardless of if your team is still playing or not!

I didn't realize that, but that certainly is a more fair way of doing things as opposed to football where you get an extra month of practice for making a bowl game. I still see the value in going on the road and continuing to play. Of course as Wave said it will be used for promotions as well.

 

[BLACK and BLUE]

VCU finished fifth in the conference with a record of 2-6 against the top four teams in the conference. Even with a 22-9 record and a rpi in the sixties, a CAA team who finishes fifth with the record they had against the top four teams is not going to get a NIT bid. Since it looks like the NCAA is going to expand I do hope the athletic directors, and the presidents of the non BCS schools force benchmarks that need to be obtained for a school to be eligible for a NCAA bid as it now seems the mark is far greater for a non BCS school. A team with a 16-16 record who has been blown out such as North Carolina has no business in any tournament! The money for the tournament is not controlled by the BCS schools, the NCAA, or the television networks, but it is controlled by the advertisers who wish to avoid controversy, and hopefully the non BCS conferences which represent over eighty percent of the membership take a hard line to protect their interests if expansion occurs.

 

[VCU4LIFE]

Not entirely true, you can still hold "practice" until the National Championship game is played regardless of if your team is still playing or not!

I didn't realize that, but that certainly is a more fair way of doing things as opposed to football where you get an extra month of practice for making a bowl game. I still see the value in going on the road and continuing to play. Of course as Wave said it will be used for promotions as well.

Obviously the way a team would use a practice is much different based on whether or not they are still playing games, but teams are allowed to run full practices until the night of the National Championship game. The biggest difference between being allowed to practice as a team and the end of that season is that there is a limit placed on how many players can work with a member of the coaching staff on the floor at any one time. Obviously if you are not playing, you will not have an all-out practice, but the team can all be together at the same time with the entire coaching staff including the head coach up until the season ends officially on the first Monday in April.

 

[VRam]

VCU finished fifth in the conference with a record of 2-6 against the top four teams in the conference.

Just a technicality, but we beat ODU, GMU and W&M. That's three victories. You're including our CAA Tourney loss, so you have to include the win.