UNI's chance at the CBI or NIT?

[BonduBluejay10]

What chances if any do we have here for either of these tourneys?

[BCPanther]

Re: UNI's chance at the CBI or NIT?

18-13 had us in the CBI last year. I think we have an outside chance at one of the tournaments if we can get to the semifinals of the Valley Tournament.

I just wish we could have the SDSU and Iowa games back, with those two wins and the exact same Valley record I think we would be looking at a good chance for NIT and a lock for the CBI...

[TH1974]

Re: UNI's chance at the CBI or NIT?

zero........

[06panther10]

Re: UNI's chance at the CBI or NIT?

who cares.

[clenz]

Re: UNI's chance at the CBI or NIT?

Would the CBI give us another home game or not if we got the higher of the two seeds?

[Khan4Cats]

Re: UNI's chance at the CBI or NIT?

who cares.

I care.

If the Panthers could make enough of a run that they would get a chance to play beyond the MVC tournament, I will be cheering and rooting them on regardless of the initials relating to the tournament.

NCAA, NIT, CBI

Doesn't matter to me, if the Panthers are playing, I'm cheering.

[Khan4Cats]

Re: UNI's chance at the CBI or NIT?

Would the CBI give us another home game or not if we got the higher of the two seeds?

I'm just guessing, but I think we would likely be on the visiting side of any brackets for the CBI. It's going to take a run of at least three more wins to get a look, and even that will leave us 5-5 over our last ten.

[jman2004]

Re: UNI's chance at the CBI or NIT?

Sorry, but I would have to say zero chance of both.

I know we all know we're better than what we've shown this season, but that doesn't mean much to anyone outside of Panther Nation.

We're 7th place in the 8th best conference with a RPI of 131 and a SOS of 102. That doesn't look too hot on paper. And the rest of the season isn't going to do much to drastically change any of those numbers.

Doesn't look too good. But there's always next year.

[williebat]

Re: UNI's chance at the CBI or NIT?

Sorry, but I would have to say zero chance of both.

I know we all know we're better than what we've shown this season, but that doesn't mean much to anyone outside of Panther Nation.

We're 7th place in the 8th best conference with a RPI of 131 and a SOS of 102. That doesn't look too hot on paper. And the rest of the season isn't going to do much to drastically change any of those numbers.

Doesn't look too good. But there's always next year.

our best and only chance at post season play is the ncaa tournament. All we gotta do is win and we are in.

[UnderParPanther]

Re: UNI's chance at the CBI or NIT?

I'd say almost no chance for NIT or CBI...Even a run to the finals would prolly not be enough since our conference is soooo down this year

Watch the A-10 easily get 8 teams in the 3 postseason tournament even though they are barely ahead of us in RPI. We will be lucky with 5 or 6.

[Newsbreaker]

Re: UNI's chance at the CBI or NIT?

If we aren't in the NIT, we aren't in the CBI. The "conventional wisdom" I've heard is that the CBI is going to target almost exclusively "major conference" teams. They want maximum fan base so they can negotiate themselves into a TV deal.

[UnderParPanther]

Re: UNI's chance at the CBI or NIT?

Is the CBI going to take the leftovers after the NIT or is it going to try get the best of whats left after the NCAA's?

[jman2004]

Re: UNI's chance at the CBI or NIT?

Watch the A-10 easily get 8 teams in the 3 postseason tournament even though they are barely ahead of us in RPI. We will be lucky with 5 or 6.

I don't see this happening. That would be 8 of the 14 teams in their conference. No way. On paper, they really are in no better shape than we are.

Xavier is in the dance, but outside of them, the A-10 has a lot of bubble teams that are in similar shape as our Creighton's and Illinois State's and Bradley's.

Crunch the numbers. St. Joes, Richmond, Temple, UMass, Duquesne, St. Louis, Charlotte, are all very AVERAGE basketball teams. The next two media darlings with hope seem to be Rhode Island and Dayton, both are UNDER .500 in conference play. Rhode Island is 0-2 against top 25 teams.

I just don't see why everyone is so hyped up about the A-10 this season. I see a lot of parity just like the Valley. I think they are no better off than us, they just have more teams to choose from.

[clenz]

Re: UNI's chance at the CBI or NIT?

Is the CBI going to take the leftovers after the NIT or is it going to try get the best of whats left after the NCAA's?

Not from what I've read about it. They want to challenge the NIT for teams

[clenz]

Re: UNI's chance at the CBI or NIT?

I just don't see why everyone is so hyped up about the A-10 this season. I see a lot of parity just like the Valley. I think they are no better off than us, they just have more teams to choose from.

East Coast bias.