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Article: New rule could guarantee WSU an NIT spot Raiders are aiming for NCAA tourney, but regular-season Horizon title would give them a fallback position.
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- February 21, 2007
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Since the NCAA purchased the National Invitation Tournament in
August 2005, it has made several changes to college basketball's
oldest postseason event. One of them could give Wright State its
first postseason berth since 1993, if WSU posts one more Horizon
League victory.
The NIT Selection Committee, in January 2006, established a rule
that states any regular-season conference champion -- after
tiebreakers -- that doesn't make the NCAA tournament will receive an
automatic berth into the NIT. Wright State leads the Horizon League
at 13-2 (21-8 overall) with just one more league game, at Youngstown
State on Thursday.
"For some of the conferences that generally receive one bid, even
if you ...