Word: bidness
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...there were "NIT" banners at Yale's Payne Whitney Gym urging that tournament's selection committee to consider the Elis--Ivy League runner-up to Princeton--for its postseason tournament. Yale is unlikely to garner the bid, despite its 19-7 record, because of its easy schedule. Case Western Reserve, Swarthmore and Columbia aren't exactly the type of competition any national tournament wants to see its teams playing...
...mere fact that any Ivy League team is being considered for the NIT is a huge change in this era when the league's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament has been in jeopardy...
Yale stunned almost all of the Ivy Leaguepundits by finishing only one game away from anNCAA tournament bid, one game behind theformidable Tigers, who have not lost at home in 18games. The Elis were the first Ivy team to upsetPrinceton, topping the defending Ivy champs,39-37, in the first game of the season. And now,it has earned talk of an NIT bid...
...Harvard has to play better than better,because every program is playing better. Whetherit be self-imposed pressure caused by the threatof losing its automatic bid or a better educationdrawing more serious athletes, the Ivy League--notjust Yale--has earned its NIT consideration thisyear...
Graduating only its manager, Lisa Thomas, Yalehas to be considered the early favorite for thetitle next year. But Kuchen knows that it willtake more than the status quo to take home theautomatic bid...