anybody think one of the lesser post-season tournaments is a possibility?

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NIT-NO...CBI-NO...Whatever the other one is-Yes...Let's just hope the basketball team has the money in their budget to go to it.
 
I think if we don't get into the NCAA or the NIT (which is the case this year), then it should be up to the players to decide if they want to play in one of the other post-season tourneys (assuming we get invited).
 

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Doesn't matter which tourney they get in, as long as they get in. You have to raise a banner noting the turning point of the program. Whether the banner hanging in Hulman Center says CBI 2009-2010 or CIT 2009-2010 is irrelevant. Go to one or the other, raise the banner before the first game next season, and get moving forward and continue posting winning records.

It'd be cool to get a home game and fill the old ISU Arena up to the rafters and make it a true home court advantage. 3000 fans in the ISU Arena is a lot more fun than 3000 in the Hulman Center.
 
Schools in 2009 Collegeinsider.com Tournament

Austin Peay State University
Bradley University
Belmont University
The Citadel
Drake University
James Madison University
Kent State University
Liberty University
Mount St. Mary's University
Oakland University
Old Dominion University
Rider University
University of Idaho
University of Evansville
University of the Pacific
University of Portland

Schools that participated in the CBI
2009 – Boise State, Buffalo, Charleston, Green Bay, Houston, Nevada, Houston, Northeastern, Oregon State, Richmond, St. John's, Stanford, Troy, UTEP, Vermont, Wichita State, Wyoming

2008 – Bradley, Brown, Cincinnati, Houston, Miami (Ohio), Nevada, Ohio, Old Dominion, Richmond, Rider, Tulsa, Utah, UTEP, Valparaiso, Virginia, Washington

The CIT is all for "mid-majors". Our friends Bradley, Drake and Evansville played last year. The CBI has had some they have had some of the bigger boys join in, i.e. Virginia, Washington, Stanford.
 
Strak said:
Doesn't matter which tourney they get in, as long as they get in. You have to raise a banner noting the turning point of the program. Whether the banner hanging in Hulman Center says CBI 2009-2010 or CIT 2009-2010 is irrelevant. Go to one or the other, raise the banner before the first game next season, and get moving forward and continue posting winning records.
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Interesting, hadn't thought of that aspect of it.
 

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Plus you get extra practices and games for a relatively young squad. Those extra practices and games will benefit the program down the line.
 
Is there any truth to the rumor I heard that playing in any post season tourney will help Jake Kelley's cause for a medical red shirt?
 
I don't think anyone actually knows for sure about Jake. I've heard some folks at ISU say they don't think he'll get a redshirt, but they don't really know for sure and they're going to try to get it...

NCAA=government=asinine bureaucracy
 

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Not going to defend the NCAA...

but if you don't believe SOME sort of overhead is needed...

good grief; if you thought 'old days' of Rupp's/Hall's/Sutton's/Pitino's/Calipari's wildcats or Switzer's sooners or Johnson's hurricanes were bad; toss out ANY type of oversight -- it'll DEFINITELY become the Wild West
 
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