(03-13-2022 09:57 AM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  WKU needs to accept CBI invite if Rick ever wants to hang a banner in Diddle. But it’s March, so I am sure would be out prior to F4. Frisco Rick is still complaining about not getting a shoot around prior to La Tech game.

Would y’all actually hang a CBI banner?

(03-12-2022 05:33 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:  Going dancin'!

Congratulations FAU! I'll be watching. Good luck and I hope you win it all.

(03-12-2022 09:01 PM)ghostofclt! Wrote:  clt says savvy move by fau and rice, not allowed when we are AAC

Had the same, though I would think the AAC will change that once the big boys leave. Someone other than Memphis will eventually want to go to a post-season tourney.

(03-13-2022 01:11 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  

(03-13-2022 09:57 AM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  WKU needs to accept CBI invite if Rick ever wants to hang a banner in Diddle. But it’s March, so I am sure would be out prior to F4. Frisco Rick is still complaining about not getting a shoot around prior to La Tech game.

Would y’all actually hang a CBI banner?

Rick Stansbury would. Would be his greatest acoomplishment.

(03-13-2022 03:57 PM)monarx Wrote:  

(03-12-2022 09:01 PM)ghostofclt! Wrote:  clt says savvy move by fau and rice, not allowed when we are AAC

Had the same, though I would think the AAC will change that once the big boys leave. Someone other than Memphis will eventually want to go to a post-season tourney.

Is that a new rule? South Florida won the CBI in 2019.

(03-13-2022 04:22 PM)JCMiner Wrote:  

(03-13-2022 03:57 PM)monarx Wrote:  

(03-12-2022 09:01 PM)ghostofclt! Wrote:  clt says savvy move by fau and rice, not allowed when we are AAC

Had the same, though I would think the AAC will change that once the big boys leave. Someone other than Memphis will eventually want to go to a post-season tourney.

Is that a new rule? South Florida won the CBI in 2019.

Yeah, I was wondering the same thing.

MT to CBI

So far:

VMI
UNC Asheville
Northern Colorado
Rice
Boston
FAU
Middle Tennessee
California Baptist
Troy

Congrats to all those playing in post-season tourneys. Need a UAB fan to start their NCAA tourney thread!

Now MT twitter has deleted the CBI tweet

Bracket:

https://www.gazellegroup.com/main/cbi/schedule-2/

(03-13-2022 08:32 PM)KAjunRaider Wrote:  

Thats actually a pretty fun tournament bracket. Good luck!

(03-14-2022 08:31 AM)monarx Wrote:  

(03-13-2022 08:32 PM)KAjunRaider Wrote:  

Thats actually a pretty fun tournament bracket. Good luck!

It's all fun and games............... 'til you lose to California Baptist

(03-12-2022 05:33 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:  Going dancin'!

You should really say that you're paying to go dancin'.

The CBI selects 16 teams that are not selected for the NCAA Tournament or the National Invitation Tournament (NIT), and who are willing to pay a $50,000 entry fee to participate.

(03-16-2022 09:14 AM)tigerfan39 Wrote:  

(03-12-2022 05:33 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:  Going dancin'!

You should really say that you're paying to go dancin'.

The CBI selects 16 teams that are not selected for the NCAA Tournament or the National Invitation Tournament (NIT), and who are willing to pay a $50,000 entry fee to participate.

Thank you for your amazing insight.

The NCAA Tournament is THE event.

The NIT, I tolerate.

Everything else....really, why bother celebrating it?

(03-16-2022 01:06 PM)rtist Wrote:  The NCAA Tournament is THE event.

The NIT, I tolerate.

Everything else....really, why bother celebrating it?

Give it a decade in CUSA amd you'll see why we take whatever we can get.

(03-16-2022 01:06 PM)rtist Wrote:  The NCAA Tournament is THE event.

The NIT, I tolerate.

Everything else....really, why bother celebrating it?

Yeah, but NMSU goes to the Big Dance on the regular.

FAU = One NCAA appearance in 2002, and one CIT appearance in 2019 (both losses). Glad FAU is excited

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_At...basketball

(03-16-2022 12:55 PM)Dusky Wrote:  

(03-16-2022 09:14 AM)tigerfan39 Wrote:  

(03-12-2022 05:33 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:  Going dancin'!

You should really say that you're paying to go dancin'.

The CBI selects 16 teams that are not selected for the NCAA Tournament or the National Invitation Tournament (NIT), and who are willing to pay a $50,000 entry fee to participate.

Thank you for your amazing insight.

Don't hate me for telling the truth.

As a competitor, and as a fan, I see ANY competition as worthy of my best effort and winning is always an accomplishment. I find it curious that some who will never sniff the NCAA Final Four, or the Elite Eight, and probably not even the Sweet 16 cast disparities on a national tourney. Most programs begin the season with the goal of winning their conference championship, and doing so brings a reward, either an auto-bid to the NIT or a spot in the Dance. Then most of those same teams are quickly bounced right out, many with humiliating double-digit losses. One and done!

For the teams in the CBI they face a challenge, an opportunity, to emerge as champion from a legit gathering of "good" teams. It's no different, really better, than those early-season classics held in Hawaii where, yes, some very good teams are present, but who really knows how some of them will fair that season. Still, winning in Maui is an accomplishment.

I may not be explaining my point very well. Bottom line is, if you're in it, be in it to win it!