Exhibition Game vs St. Joseph's

[motowntitan]

How about Al McGuire and Marquette in 1970?  Rejecting their NCAA bid to play in the NIT?  That's amazing.

Apostle, prior to NBC and CBS really buying into the future of the NCAA tournament as we know it now, the NIT was the National Championship tournament. The NCAA was more like the NIT at the time. Also, prior to 2006, unless a mid-major had a really big year, including a big school upset, they didn't regularly get NIT invites. I think Valpo got lucky in 2003 with an NIT bid because our recent NCAA bids and the honeymoon period on the Sweet 16. Once the NCAA bought the NIT, and gave all regular season conference champions bids to the NIT, it opened up the postseason to more mid-majors, and changed that we now have really subpar teams making the postseason to fill in CBI/CIT fields, much like those pre-Christmas/pre-New Year's Day bowl games featuring a battle of bad 6-5 5th or 6th place WAC/MAC football teams.

Us old timers will remember that it was actually "The Game" in 1979 that started to alter everything.  The NCAA went from 32 teams in 1978 to 64 in 1985.   This is exactly why the ESPN thing is total BS.  They heavily weighed the most recent years, discounting the importance of the NIT prior to 1978.     

[valporun]

WVUR webcast will be working for Robert Morris game. Karl Berner and I will be on the call.

Karl Berner, that's a name from the past. I hope there are no problems with the WVUR feed this week. I felt out of the loop last Saturday without my Crusader basketball fix.

[StlVUFan]

All the "26-3" talk makes me chuckle a bit.  You do have access to a schedule, right? 

If Valpo loses 3 non-conference games, 2 league games and loses in the HL finals, they would be sitting at 27-6 on Selection Sunday.  For reference, the last HL team to get an at-large bid was 26-5 on Selection Sunday and got a #9 seed.  Feel free to write it off as unlikely (or impossible) if you'd like, but it seems silly to do that before your team has played a game.   

THIS.

Prognosticate to your hearts content, folks.  Count me as one who prefers to watch the season unfold.  I'm content with the fact that the schedule is built with at-large in mind, as LeCrone likes to say.  I really don't care one wit how likely it is.  I prefer to watch them try their best to make it happen.  And if they win the auto-bid, it becomes their best attempt at an unprecedented seed.

[valpotx]

WVUR webcast will be working for Robert Morris game. Karl Berner and I will be on the call.

No Packers talk Paul 

[LaPorteAveApostle]

Karl Berner is the man.

He should probably post much more on here, except not type, but dictate mp3s so we can all hear his voice.

Although, like the movies, I could probably call it up just from the written word