NIT - Florida @ Xavier - Sunday 1:00 PM

[stever20]

NIT basketball is just fun exhibition games where if your team wins, you get to watch another game. Cool. I appreciate that it's led to ESPN having to talk some about a major Big East hire.

It can build though for next year. So many times you see NIT champion return the following year and they do really well. This is a bit of an unusual situation obviously with the coaching change.

[XUFan09]

NIT basketball is just fun exhibition games where if your team wins, you get to watch another game. Cool. I appreciate that it's led to ESPN having to talk some about a major Big East hire.

It can build though for next year. So many times you see NIT champion return the following year and they do really well. This is a bit of an unusual situation obviously with the coaching change.

I think this gets overstated. There doesn't appear to be too much of a connection between NIT performance and success the following year. The games are also rather chill, so there's not the intensity you would expect in a single-elimination tournament that would be experience for the future.

[kayako]

Whether if it helps build for next year or not, I'd think an NIT title is a nice consolation prize. It also pads your record because it certainly isn't exhibition.