Well, we have two very interesting NIT F4 games this evening, live from, for maybe the last time, Madison Square Garden:

St Bonaventure vs Xavier ..... 7 PM ET

Washington State vs Texas AM .... 9:30 ET

St Bonaventure is the darling of this event so far, and are a slight favorite. But I think Xavier pulls it out.

In the P5 battle in game two, I have been touting TAMU all along, but Wazoo looks really strong. Not sure about this one.

You?

Bona dominating the crowd, Xavier dominating the glass.

(03-29-2022 06:42 PM)JSchmack Wrote:  Bona dominating the crowd, Xavier dominating the glass.

Yes, the Bonnies are the St Peters of the tournament, the crowd favorites. But right now, Xavier is woodshedding them.

Just halftiime, though ..... 38-23

(03-29-2022 06:58 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(03-29-2022 06:42 PM)JSchmack Wrote:  Bona dominating the crowd, Xavier dominating the glass.

Yes, the Bonnies are the St Peters of the tournament, the crowd favorites. But right now, Xavier is woodshedding them.

Just halftiime, though ..... 38-23

That's a lot of BS though. We're not an NIT "Cinderella." We were ranked in the preseason Top 25

You're only surprised Bona beat Colorado, Oklahoma and Virginia because NET is stupid and ESPN only talks about conferences they spend money on.

(03-29-2022 07:16 PM)JSchmack Wrote:  

(03-29-2022 06:58 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(03-29-2022 06:42 PM)JSchmack Wrote:  Bona dominating the crowd, Xavier dominating the glass.

Yes, the Bonnies are the St Peters of the tournament, the crowd favorites. But right now, Xavier is woodshedding them.

Just halftiime, though ..... 38-23

That's a lot of BS though. We're not an NIT "Cinderella." We were ranked in the preseason Top 25

You're only surprised Bona beat Colorado, Oklahoma and Virginia because NET is stupid and ESPN only talks about conferences they spend money on.

Winning 3 road games in the NIT is a tough task especially with the first one being in Colorado on 2 days notice.. Not many would have expected that

(03-29-2022 07:16 PM)JSchmack Wrote:  

(03-29-2022 06:58 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(03-29-2022 06:42 PM)JSchmack Wrote:  Bona dominating the crowd, Xavier dominating the glass.

Yes, the Bonnies are the St Peters of the tournament, the crowd favorites. But right now, Xavier is woodshedding them.

Just halftiime, though ..... 38-23

That's a lot of BS though. We're not an NIT "Cinderella." We were ranked in the preseason Top 25

You're only surprised Bona beat Colorado, Oklahoma and Virginia because NET is stupid and ESPN only talks about conferences they spend money on.

Bona rallying, down 10 with 11 mins to go.

No disrespect intended, Colorado, Oklahoma and UVA are three very nice skins on the wall.

And here we come. With the home crowd.

(BTW, this is how the first three games went. Not quite a 15-point deficit, but 8-point deficits).

And 3 stops in four trips for the defense in 2 minutes and we got outscored 0-2. That should do it.


I wonder what this program would have been doing if we had Big East funding since the late 70s instead of getting blackballed by Syracuse. Xavier's budget was double ours when they were in the Atlantic 10.

The Big East is really stupid to not fund our basketball cult.

Woj Bomb has Xavier winning this game.

Xavier holds off the Bonnies, 84-77

Congratulations, Xavier.

A Big East team has not won the NIT in 15 years, since WV in 2007.

I know this is only the NIT, and not the NCAA tournament, but... if Xavier wins the NIT, would X's interim coach Hayes be the first interim to win a postseason tournament since Fisher did it in the NCAA tournament with Michigan?

TAMU opening up a lead on Washington State ...

52-36

13 mins left

(03-29-2022 08:01 PM)stever20 Wrote:  Woj Bomb has Xavier winning this game.

Woj would never bomb that.

Texas AM now blowing out Wazoo ..... 70-45

TAMU shoulda been in the Big Dance.

Rutgers .... aaarrrrgh

And that's a wrap ...

Texas AM defeats Washington State, 72-56 to set up an SEC vs Big East final with Xavier.

Game time for the final is this Thursday at 7 PM ET (ESPN).

An SEC team has not won the NIT since South Carolina in 2006.

Jonas Hayes is really a hot coaching choice now. I would suggest the Chattanooga job even though he is a Georgia native. Chatty very close to Ga. anyway.

Well, the results were terrible. But the atmosphere is what I expected.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1508893156976246795

wow some way to end the year...

(03-30-2022 10:16 AM)stever20 Wrote:  wow some way to end the year...

Damn, that is rough.