UNI turns down CIT/CBI

[tribecalledquest]

Bradley and UNI had to be the two most disappointing teams in the MVC this year.

[agrinut]

Bradley and UNI had to be the two most disappointing teams in the MVC this year.

Northern Iowa finished where they were projected. They didn't have the overall season they would have liked to have but seems they were about where most expected them to be.

[Ricardo del Rio]

I don't know what to think.

Who wants to play in the CBI? Well, almost nobody.

Will a team playing in the CBI impress recruits? Hardly.

Why pay for something that nobody wants to do?

Let's get ready for finals.

I trust Coach Jacobson.

[Wufan]

Bradley was the most disappointing to me followed by Evansville. I thought that they might have enough talent to make a run at 5th.

[ACECARD]

Bradley was the most disappointing to me followed by Evansville. I thought that they might have enough talent to make a run at 5th.

The Aces might make 5th next year, IF they can get A JUCO power forward who can play at a Valley level, if not, it will be 50-50 to get out of Thursday. Mislav is an unknown factor, who could help them stay out of Thursday.

[Mikovio]

Yep, just time to turn the page. After the Sweet 16 run we had the NIT one year, then two years of the CXX stuff. After having been through those tournaments a couple of times, I trust our team to decide if it would be beneficial or not.

The postseason should be a reward for a good season. We didn't have a bad season, but it wasn't exactly good either. Hopefully next year's team will come back motivated to do more.

This sounds like Bradley 2006-2009. Then 2010 turned down CXX and 2011 fired Les.

Bradley has made 3 deep runs in these and the payoff for the following years appears to have amounted to jack. After a 33 game season, what more are you going to learn about yourselves by inviting a mediocre team to play in front of 3k?

[m-v-c]

Yep, just time to turn the page. After the Sweet 16 run we had the NIT one year, then two years of the CXX stuff. After having been through those tournaments a couple of times, I trust our team to decide if it would be beneficial or not.

The postseason should be a reward for a good season. We didn't have a bad season, but it wasn't exactly good either. Hopefully next year's team will come back motivated to do more.

This sounds like Bradley 2006-2009. Then 2010 turned down CXX and 2011 fired Les.

Bradley has made 3 deep runs in these and the payoff for the following years appears to have amounted to jack. After a 33 game season, what more are you going to learn about yourselves by inviting a mediocre team to play in front of 3k?

Agreed. Don't think some understand just how much these long seasons can wear teams out, between the length of the season (basically Oct. 1 through March now), classes, etc., lot of tear, probably more mentally than physically. (And some of that is self-inflicted, guys spending too much time reading what people are saying about them on Twitter, listening to all the talk about 'pressure', etc.) At this point of the season, the idea of practicing as a team and getting a whole lot better for next year sounds good, but probably isn't much reality, players/coaches are just tired and ready for a break. Perhaps testing different players or schemes in game, but otherwise the appeal of a 3rd-rate tournament (unfortunately that's what they are) just isn't much. Different from going to a bowl game as a 6-6 team where your team has only had to play 5-7 road games in the season, still gets to go to a warm location, gets a bunch of free stuff, and only has to play one game.

[unipanther99]

It would be one thing if they allowed red-shirts or transfers to play in these games without counting against their eligibility. If I ran one of these things, I would petition the NCAA hard to allow that to happen.

[mvcfan]

Yes, the pressure to a 500 team must be suffocating and probably the stress could shorten lives.

I will say that if the entire team doesn't enter the tournament with the resolve to win it, playing is a waste of time. The year, we won the NIT, Marshall had a talk with the team. He reminded them about his disappointment in their performance in the NIT the previous year, when they had just shown up and threw in the towel early, probably prior to the first round game against Nevada. He told them if that was the plan, he didn't want to accept the invitation to the tournament and be a part of it. The team became excited about the NIT and went to MSG and won it. We've gone to the last two NCAA tournaments and this year will make three in a row. The NIT Championship could have been the spring board (or at least part of it) to raise our level of play. Good Luck to whoever enters the post season.

[Wufan]

Yes, the pressure to a 500 team must be suffocating and probably the stress could shorten lives.

I will say that if the entire team doesn't enter the tournament with the resolve to win it, playing is a waste of time. The year, we won the NIT, Marshall had a talk with the team. He reminded them about his disappointment in their performance in the NIT the previous year, when they had just shown up and threw in the towel early, probably prior to the first round game against Nevada. He told them if that was the plan, he didn't want to accept the invitation to the tournament and be a part of it. The team became excited about the NIT and went to MSG and won it. We've gone to the last two NCAA tournaments and this year will make three in a row. The NIT Championship could have been the spring board (or at least part of it) to raise our level of play. Good Luck to whoever enters the post season.

Yes, but the NIT, while second fiddle, is significantly different than the other two tourneys.