Sure it's not the NCAA, but it's still awesome to win in the post season.

They stomped UCLA earlier in the year really bad. I wonder if it has ever happened that the winner of the NIT beat the winner of the NCAA in the regular season.

Man I am looking forward to next season.

3/29/2007 8:28:25 PM

care..

[Edited on March 29, 2007 at 8:30 PM. Reason : not found]

3/29/2007 8:29:53 PM

there is nothing awesome about winning the NIT

[Edited on March 29, 2007 at 8:35 PM. Reason : And Michigan is about to take your coach ]

3/29/2007 8:31:17 PM

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"They stomped UCLA earlier in the year really bad. I wonder if it has ever happened that the winner of the NIT beat the winner of the NCAA in the regular season."

uhmmmmm did you even watch basketball last year?

3/29/2007 8:35:50 PM

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"I wonder if it has ever happened that the winner of the NIT beat the winner of the NCAA in the regular season."

Didnt it happen twice last year?

3/29/2007 8:36:22 PM

ahha


dave odom: king of the regular season and NIT

he is like the schottenheimer of college basketball

3/29/2007 8:39:29 PM

I thought Schottenheimer didn't win games when it mattered

3/29/2007 8:43:03 PM

oh so the NIT matters now?

3/29/2007 8:44:07 PM

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"uhmmmmm did you even watch basketball last year?"

Yeah actually I did watch basketball all of last year. http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/preview?gameId=270410277

They won by five but they lead by almost 20 at one point. WVU is a really really good team.

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"there is nothing awesome about winning the NIT"

You know if NCSU would have won the NIT there would be about 50 threads about how great we were and how great of a building block it is for next season. It just so happens that WVU won a close game against NCSU, and won the tournament. Both teams are in a pretty similar situation with really young teams. But whatever... there is no reason to hate.

3/29/2007 8:44:46 PM

I think he was talkin about USC and FLA

3/29/2007 8:47:11 PM

^^ yeah but we weren't expecting to win a thing this year

of course there wouldn't be 50 threads either, i'm sure a lot of people on here would be like, yeah win the NIT woohoo

[Edited on March 29, 2007 at 8:48 PM. Reason : ]

3/29/2007 8:47:27 PM

last year USCarolina won the NIT and beat UFlorida twice in the regular season

are you tryin to compare that to this year again? i dont understand what you are saying/asking.

3/29/2007 8:47:29 PM

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" Yeah actually I did watch basketball all of last year. http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/preview?gameId=270410277 They won by five but they lead by almost 20 at one point. WVU is a really really good team."

PSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHH

that is the sound of the post you quoted flying directly over your head

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"You know if NCSU would have won the NIT there would be about 50 threads about how great we were and blah blah blah blah"

NIT is awesome to the team that wins but NOBODY. ELSE. CARES.

3/29/2007 8:47:48 PM

wow, this guy doesnt watch basketball

you are that guy on the Sportscenter commercials

3/29/2007 8:49:39 PM

ahah

feebleminded

now i get it




last past of my edit sentence should read "accurate?"

[Edited on March 29, 2007 at 8:53 PM. Reason : does it count as irony when a guy makes what he thinks is a joke user name but the name is actually ]

3/29/2007 8:52:02 PM

I didn't know about USC beating Florida twice last year.

3/29/2007 9:15:25 PM

YOU DIDNT??

WHAT A SURPRISE!

3/29/2007 9:23:00 PM

so does this make them the 66th best team in the country?

3/29/2007 9:27:48 PM

nah, winning the NIT probably means you're about the 25th through 35th best team in the country...


This year id say it meant about ~28-30

3/29/2007 9:30:43 PM

no.

sarcasm?

3/29/2007 9:30:50 PM

in any official sense it means you are the 66th best

b/c the ncaa felt 65 other teams more deserved a spot in the real tourney

3/29/2007 9:34:53 PM

no the ncaa felt there were 34 better teams in the country

3/29/2007 9:52:41 PM

they're gonna lose their coach to Michigan

3/29/2007 10:01:25 PM

Ya South Carolina beat UF twice in the regular season, and UF beat them by 2 in the SEC Tourny Final

3/29/2007 10:05:46 PM

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"no the ncaa felt there were 34 better teams in the country"

well they let 65 teams in ahead of them

3/29/2007 10:09:14 PM

WE MUST IGNITE THIS COUCH!!!

I wonder how many pieces of furniture were sacrificed in Morgantown tonight.

3/29/2007 10:15:14 PM

Haha probably a lot.

3/29/2007 10:37:50 PM

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"in any official sense it means you are the 66th best b/c the ncaa felt 65 other teams more deserved a spot in the real tourney "

That might be true if all 65 teams were chosen according to who the top 65 teams are.

The whole automatic bid thing kind of kills that though.

3/29/2007 10:41:48 PM

Yeah, the NCAA is letting teams like Weber St. and Belmont in ahead of WVU

[Edited on March 29, 2007 at 10:44 PM. Reason : ]

3/29/2007 10:43:30 PM

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"well they let 65 teams in ahead of them"

yeah

31 one of those were automatic bids

the other 34 were at-large invites

hence

the ncaa felt there were (at least) 34 teams in the country better than wvu

3/29/2007 10:56:08 PM

at least we lost to the champs

3/29/2007 10:57:48 PM

I actually feel really good about our NIT run considering we lost to the champs on their court after they threw the kitchen sink at us in in the last 4 minutes to eek out a win.

3/29/2007 11:01:33 PM

I wonder what the WVU fans thought of this game. They obviously weren't thrilled after our game.

3/29/2007 11:05:25 PM

I'm sure they celebrated by fucking their sister.

3/29/2007 11:08:38 PM

oh so i suppose the ncaa isnt the one who made those automatic bids

my bad

i should say the ncaa feels 34 teams deserve to be in the big one more and some shadow organization feels the other teams deserve to be in the big one and they force the ncaa to let them in through strong arm tactics

THOSE BASTARDS!!!

3/29/2007 11:14:09 PM

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"there is nothing awesome about winning the NIT"

unless you are nc state

[Edited on March 30, 2007 at 12:51 AM. Reason : sdlkf]

3/30/2007 12:50:58 AM

congrats to them. they can win it every year for all i care, because hopefully we won't be in it for a long time

3/30/2007 12:54:58 AM

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3/30/2007 5:54:20 AM

i dunno, i'm happy for 'em. no better way for us to go out of a tourney then to lose to the eventual champion...

3/30/2007 6:34:32 AM

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"the ncaa felt there were (at least) 34 teams in the country better than wvu"

Right, and by winning the NIT tournament by stringing together 5 wins over semi-quality teams they proved they are better than at least a handful of the teams the NCAA selected to participate in the NCAA tournament.

Hence the reason it proves they are one of the top 25-35 teams in the nation this year. IMO, i'd rank them around 28-30.

3/30/2007 7:50:09 AM

I'm curious why you aren't accounting for the conference champs of the ACC, SEC, Big 12, Big East, Big 10, Pac 10, MVC, CUSA, and WCC at the very least. Why is the NIT champ better than ALL automatic bids again (including the champ of their own conference)?

3/30/2007 9:22:57 AM

[Edited on March 30, 2007 at 9:27 AM. Reason : n/m i see what you mean.]

3/30/2007 9:27:01 AM

I'm a WVU fan as well, they are good but they def arent the best. They are however better than NCSU day in and day out. I watched the WVU vs. UConn game in person, and must say they are an exciting team to watch. John Beilein is a great coach, and thats why state wanted him so badly... WVU is a top 25 team and should have made it into the NCAA tourney. They had some quality wins, and I've heard from many they should have been in the tourney. WVU and Syracuse both got snubbed this year.

I'm from Morgantown so im biased, but not as bad as most of the fair weather or bandwagon state fans. I'm a Mountaineer fan, and a Wolfpack Support.

Its sad but WVU athletics > NCSU athletics

3/30/2007 9:31:59 AM

either way, they didn't win enough games to get into the ncaa. sucks to be them

3/30/2007 9:35:59 AM

I am accounting for all the division champions.

If you factored in those 5 wins into their RPI I'm pretty sure they'd be ranked somewhere in the 30's overall.

These were POSTSEASON wins so they should be weighed accordingly.

They clearly aren't better than Virginia was this year. I'd certainly say they're CLOSE to the level of a team like Duke. Most people would agree they are better than a handful of the at-large teams like Gonzaga, Arkansas, and Georgia Tech. They are easily better than the Belmont, North Texas, and FAMU so to say they are 66th is just inaccurate.

I'm not going to sit here and argue EXACTLY where they should be ranked because ultimately it really doesn't matter. There's no need to discredit an NIT championship though, particularly when NC State was going crazy because we beat Marist two weeks ago. It is what it is, an accomplishment that's neither great nor embarrassing.

3/30/2007 10:06:27 AM

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"They are however better than NCSU day in and day out."

right which is why they just barely beat us on their home court

3/30/2007 10:59:45 AM

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"I've heard from many they should have been in the tourney."

well then that settles it.

3/30/2007 11:13:51 AM

Somewhere ihatespida is crying tears of joy.

3/30/2007 12:39:55 PM

Anyone else see that they misspelled "Virginia" on the t-shirts? left out the last "I"

3/30/2007 1:12:36 PM

^im looking for pictures

3/30/2007 2:54:57 PM