Talk:National Invitation Tournament

message: This passage is inaccurate: "The post-season tournament pre-dates the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship tournament by one year; in the tournaments' early years there was often some contention as to which champion was in fact the nation's best collegiate basketball team."  During the 1940s, the NIT was unquestionably more prestigious than the NCAA tournament.  Over the course of the 1950s, the NCCA tournament gradually overtook the NIT, and by the mid 1960s the NCAA had become the dominant tournament.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.59.204.130 (talk) 16:19, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It was vandalism, and has only now been removed. Danthemankhan 06:20, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Teams that win their conference after the reg season and fail to make the NCAA Tournament are automatically invited to the NIT.  ...But what about teams that own a share/tie of the conference title after the reg season and fail to make the NCAA Tournament... Do they to automatically make the NIT also? (e.g. Rider in 2008 who tied with Siena). 172.129.221.16 (talk) 01:31, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe the NIT recognizes the "regular season conference champion" as the team with the #1 seed in the conference tournament (I don't know what it does if the Ivy League has co-champs...probably applies the standard tie-breaking procedures).  So a team could be a co-champion, but would not get the auto-NIT berth.  Also, a division champ would only get the auto-NIT bid if it had a better record than the other division champ. — X96lee15 (talk) 19:44, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Clarification

message: In 1997, 1998 & 2003, the champion's titles where later vacated.  Wouldn't that make the runners-up the champions?  --rogerd (talk) 16:46, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vacated titles 

message: It's starting to look as if the NCAA is going to expand its tournament to 96 teams. If that happens, anyone know how that will affect the postseason NIT? Will there even BE a post-season NIT?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobbyknightmare (talk • contribs) 21:16, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  NCAA Expansion 

message: One reason given for the greater prestige in the early years is exposure to NBA scouts. However, the NBA did not exist until post WWII, and I don't think that whatever pro basketball existed during the 1930s was the path to riches the NBA is today. Wschart (talk) 03:51, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early years 

message: Can both of these sentences be true?
* "Nevertheless, the NIT continued to be regarded highly into the 1960s."
* "References clearly describe NIT only as more or as highly regarded into the 1950s, not 1960s."
In an April 2013 edit, the first sentence was changed to "the 1950s," with the second sentence given as a reason.  It seems to me that something can be highly regarded even if it is not as highly regarded as another similar thing.  I remember college basketball from the 1960s.  Back then the NIT had not yet become the object of derision as a tournament for also-rans, in part because the NCAA invited far fewer teams than today, and at one time excluded teams that were not conference champions.  Lots of people, including those involved in college basketball, remember the NIT of the 1960s as highly regarded, even though the NCAA tournament was more highly regarded.  
My opinion is that both statements are true.
Jeff in CA (talk) 17:37, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can both of these be true? 

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message: Actually it would be more accurate to say that the NCAA Division I basketball tournaments are FORMALLY known as "March Madness" since the NCAA has copyrighted the term and applied it to both the men's and women's tournaments, where it appears in signage and on the floors. 2600:1004:B161:C68A:0:34:9942:5001 (talk) 15:18, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "March Madness"