Can Hawks make the NIT?

Used to be that the Hawks in a tourney usually meant a large base of traveling fans. If we don’t go to home games, we aren’t traveling to Provo Utah or some other obscure location for a first round game

If we don’t beat nebby, might be best to just recognize this season for what it wasn’t
 
Net Rankings: 69
Kenpom: 73

Crowns Basketball tournament
NIT

Here is a link to what it takes to make both tournaments. The 3rd paragraph explains the NIT. It is a wikipedia link so take it, fwiw.

College Basketball Crown - Wikipedia

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Personally, I think they get worked in Lincoln tomorrow. They never play well there. I usually hate it when the season ends, but I am ready for this one.
 
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trj said:
Personally, I think they get worked in Lincoln tomorrow. They never play well there. I usually hate it when the season ends, but I am ready for this one.
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I'm sure there are lots of mixed feelings about this, many of them negative.

I have one reason I'd like to see them keep playing, the players for the effort they've put in. I guess a second reason would be to give Payton that Puncher's Chance at a Top 10 finish on the scoring list.

I won't be surprised, though, if they go nowhere and the season is over on Sunday.
 
Zstatman said:
I'm sure there are lots of mixed feelings about this, many of them negative.

I have one reason I'd like to see them keep playing, the players for the effort they've put in. I guess a second reason would be to give Payton that Puncher's Chance at a Top 10 finish on the scoring list.

I won't be surprised, though, if they go nowhere and the season is over on Sunday.
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Hopefully, I am wrong and they win tomorrow. I will be watching if they somehow make the Crown or the NIT.

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There seemed to be some sentiment that last night's Illinois game was the last game of the season. Wasn't it just a week ago we were talking about the Hawks chances of postseason play with a losing record and we thought there was a chance. Now we have a winning record, and it seems to me one of the tourneys, NIT or CBC will take the Hawks. I'm sure we'll be hearing more about this subject.

I guess there's always a chance Fran, Beth, the program, the players could decide they don't want to play anymore this season. But I don't see it. If you are a basketball team and can play more games, you do it.
 
Zstatman said:
There seemed to be some sentiment that last night's Illinois game was the last game of the season. Wasn't it just a week ago we were talking about the Hawks chances of postseason play with a losing record and we thought there was a chance. Now we have a winning record, and it seems to me one of the tourneys, NIT or CBC will take the Hawks. I'm sure we'll be hearing more about this subject.

I guess there's always a chance Fran, Beth, the program, the players could decide they don't want to play anymore this season. But I don't see it. If you are a basketball team and can play more games, you do it.
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There's a 3rd tourny called The Crown that's on the table. Fran when asked about it yesterday said he'd be up for playing in that. I think everything just remains to be seen at this point. Is Beth going to fire him soon or after post season play or at all has to be made. There's a chance they fire Fran before that and then all bets are off on what happens.
 
There are actually 5 postseason tourneys. When the talk about this new tourney, the CBC came out, nothing was said about the other two that have been around for more than a decade, the CBI and the CIT. I surfed a bit on found an article from the Indy Star that I'll post below. Everything you need to know about March Madness.
 
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