VT Robbed

**1inStripes** · March 17th, 2008, 08:09 AM

Also Miami had better wins than Tech did. Tech was 1-7 I believe against the RPI top 50.

**sup-rbeast** · March 17th, 2008, 08:26 AM

Instead of whining, VT should go to the NIT and prove they should have been in.

**GETEMDAWGS** · March 17th, 2008, 09:41 AM

zona's SOS was top 5 overall, and their RPI has been high all year

i hate vt too, but i really cant see taking baylor, with no real quality wins.

tech didnt have a signature win, a top ten win, that kept them out.

georgia and temple are the two teams that vt can thank, they kept them and zona state out.

**imported_VHSLhelper** · March 17th, 2008, 11:34 AM

Personally, I'd rather see Tech in the NIT.
1st, NIT teams get to play tourney games in front of their student body.
2nd, even on ESPN Classic, Tech will get more TV exposure than any 12 or 13 seed in the dance does (unless they win both games this weekend).
3rd, I'd like A new NIT champions t-shirt.
4th, it's not the CBI!!!

**Seventy4** · March 17th, 2008, 11:55 AM

Look at Tech, how many teams in the Tourney did they beat? They split with Miami. Other than that, they played and lost to the other 3 ACC teams in the Tourney. They lost to Butler, Gonzaga, Penn State, Old Dominion, and Richmond.

Given their play in the ACC Tourney though, I thought they deserved a bid, a bid over a team like Arizona or Villanova. Georgia winning the SEC tourney is probably what kept Tech and/or Arizona St. out of the tourney.

I agree with Bob Knight from last night when he said that there should be no automatic bids. To think that UVA could have won the ACC tourney and been in the field of 65 is astonishing. Seriously the sun can shine on even a dog's ass every now and then.

**BlueWahooChambordDevil** · March 17th, 2008, 12:03 PM

the problem is that until the ACCT they hadnt beaten anybody in the top 50

thats not going to help your case

**sup-rbeast** · March 17th, 2008, 12:28 PM

The automatic bid is what makes the conference tournaments exciting. I don't even like B-ball...but I can handle a team coming out of nowhere and getting in based on a tournament championship...gives em something to play for. If VT or ASU had done what UGA did, they'd be in as well. If you can't win your own conference, you really don't have an argument for sitting at home. Every team has that chance.

**1inStripes** · March 17th, 2008, 12:44 PM

See thats where Greenberg and others are wrong for comparing football and basketball postseasons. Truly, there are much more basketball teams that make the postseason than in football, and a higher percentage. Every team but those in the Ivy league, or those who have moved up from D2 recently make the postseason.

**sup-rbeast** · March 17th, 2008, 01:07 PM

Maybe they could revamp the b-ball bracket to conference tie ins....but you still have to include the midmajors...maybe then there wouldn't be so much whining when a team that would be lucky to get out of the second round got left at home cuz they couldn't win their conference tournament.

**Seventy4** · March 17th, 2008, 01:13 PM

Actually if you just talk about football bowl games as the post season, there were 35 bowl games last year. In D1 football, there 119 programs. 70 of those 119 played football after the regular season was over. For a percentage of about 59%.

There are 341 D1 Basketball teams. Of those 341, 65 get to goto the NCAA, add the 32 from the NIT, and you get 97 of 341 basketball teams going to the post season, for a percentage of about 28%.

So maybe 97 seems like a lot of teams playing in the post season, but the percentages are lower, and even the number is lower if you take only the NCAA tournament into consideration.