Rumor: CIT home game, March 15 (?)

[95UNIGRAD]

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Got mine this afternoon - hard to beat $10 for adults and $5 each for my kids to get seat-back tickets. Hope we get an interesting opponent.

[LA_Panther]

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I just realized the CIT has 24 teams. Some teams will receive a bye in the 2nd round. Since UNI was invited to this tournament so early, do you think this means we'll be one of the top teams? Will that translate into a 2nd round bye?

[ESands12 Nation]

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Do you think Jake tries playing underclassman, or stick with K-jo and the remaining seniors?

Kwadzo plays 30-35 minutes at least in this game. Coach Jake is proud of our seniors and they both will get good minutes. Kwadzo has done so much for this program he isn't getting benched for Matt "Money" Morrison or Tyler Lange

[r54uni]

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I just realized the CIT has 24 teams. Some teams will receive a bye in the 2nd round. Since UNI was invited to this tournament so early, do you think this means we'll be one of the top teams? Will that translate into a 2nd round bye?

Getting invited early means there is no way in hell we make the NCAA or the NIT. This is not such a good thing. Those who haven't been invited are holding out hopes of making one of the other more promident tournaments.

[PantherHawk]

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I don't get why they don't release the teams earlier. I know some of the schools are hosting have put it out there. but what about the teams that have to travel. Pretty hard for fans to get flights, hotels, and everything else booked in 1 day!

Does anyone know, do they do this tournament by region (I mean are midwest teams paired up against each other, to limit travel?)

[DrewDog]

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I don't get why they don't release the teams earlier. I know some of the schools are hosting have put it out there. but what about the teams that have to travel. Pretty hard for fans to get flights, hotels, and everything else booked in 1 day!

Does anyone know, do they do this tournament by region (I mean are midwest teams paired up against each other, to limit travel?)

Looking at last year's bracket (http://bit.ly/avZNMu) it looks like they do match up teams which are in the same regions.

[95UNIGRAD]

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Looking at last year's bracket (http://bit.ly/avZNMu) it looks like they do match up teams which are in the same regions.

Anyone else notice that the bottom half of that bracket (checked out your link) seemed to be a lot stronger than the top? I mean, Pacific in the title game?

[Khan4Cats]

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Looking at last year's bracket (http://bit.ly/avZNMu) it looks like they do match up teams which are in the same regions.

They do look like they have tried, both years, to match early rounds up geographically. That might give us an idea of who we might be facing. Take a look at the conferences that are near us, and teams that are in similar RPI ranges (100-150), and you get an idea:

IUPUI
Oral Roberts
Montana (playing in their conference final but not the #1 seed)
Wright State
Akron
Miami-Ohio

those are the teams that align closest right now

[jnutt]

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lets just avoid CU in the first round if not completely

[SpudWebb]

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lets just avoid CU in the first round if not completely

Screw CU . . . bring them on.

[UNIFanSince1983]

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If it makes anyone feel better about this looking at that bracket George Mason lost in the first round of this tourney last year, and look where they were this year.

[EVSPanther]

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I'm posting it on FB, emailing friends - anyone (local at least) who doesn't have travel plans for break already NEEDS to be at this game! What else is there to do on a Tuesday night??? And it's CHEAP!

Amen...Tuesday's in the CV can be pretty boring...especially this time of year. I'll be there as well, and I'm telling everyone else to get there. Hopefully the word gets out well enough and it actually drives people to the game...we'll see.

[Panthers to the Bone]

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Teams in the CIT:

http://twitter.com/JasonBelzer

Santa Clara will be hosting 1st round
Hawaii will be hosting and playing Portland in 1st round

And then there is talk that South Florida might be looking at the CIT...per other twitter sources.

[LA_Panther]

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Good researching PTTB. I'm surprised about South Florida though. Their record is way below .500. Does the CIT have a requirement that teams have to have a .500 record or better? At 10-23, South Florida doesn't deserve a spot.

[UNI83]

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I've saw rumors that Montana is a likely CIT candidate.