penn nation
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03-16-17 09:16 PM - Post#227416
In response to SecS3
Penn turned down the NCAAs in 1966.
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Go Green
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03-17-17 06:19 AM - Post#227429
In response to SecS3
Princeton turned down the NIT in '68.
If so, that doesn't appear to be particularly widely-known.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967%E2%80%9368_ Prin...
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Go Green
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03-17-17 06:23 AM - Post#227430
In response to penn nation
Penn turned down the NCAAs in 1966.
That's not really telling the whole story...
http://www.phillyvoice.com/fifty-years-ago-penn- wa...
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Old Bear
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03-17-17 04:08 PM - Post#227501
In response to Go Green
Perhaps Indiana turned the NIT down because they were firing their coach.
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Tiger69
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03-18-17 12:03 AM - Post#227524
In response to Old Bear
I guess that the Big Ten will want 10 bids (or more?) next season on the grounds that no coach should lose his job?
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palestra38
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03-19-17 08:25 AM - Post#227663
In response to Old Bear
They didn't turn it down--they turned down a home game and then lost on the road.
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Tiger69
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03-19-17 02:58 PM - Post#227721
In response to palestra38
Maybe they couldn't afford the price tag of the home game purchase
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palestra38
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03-19-17 04:44 PM - Post#227732
In response to Tiger69
I don't think you have to pay to get an NIT home game. However, the costs of the event are yours. Their excuse, that the students were on break, was pretty lame considering that 6 or 7 other schools took home games with the school on break. Bloomington,Indiana is not a place which has a helluva lot else going on to compete with an Indiana home game.
It's pretty clear they already had decided to fire the coach (who was Big Whatever coach of the year the year before) and wanted to lose this game.
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mrjames
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03-19-17 08:45 PM - Post#227757
In response to palestra38
I had thought that the AD went on record saying that he didn't want to sully Assembly Hall with an NIT game. That's why they declined. I never say the quote, but that was supposedly a thing that was said.
Feel like this was a segment on Mike and Mike this week (I get up early with the little ones before work, and hey, what else is on?).
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coins
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03-20-17 03:45 PM - Post#227803
In response to penn nation
Marquette turned down the NCAA in 1970 (and won the NIT).
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