Random NIT Rambling

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Random NIT Rambling

Post by harbo » Mon Mar 31, 2014 11:29 pm

Nothing spectacular here, but I did the work and will share it.

I've long been a proponent of using the NIT as a springboard to greater things, so I did a look back to our appearance in the 2008 NIT (Ford's last year). Lost to Ohio State in the finals. I was curious to see the records of the NIT participants since then. I just concentrated on the teams from multiple-NCAA-bid conferences.

BTW, http://www.sports-reference.com/ can help you decide a whole bunch of sports arguments.

Here are some results, hopefully they format okay here.

School Win Loss PCT NCAA NIT Coach Chg
Syracuse 177 42 .808 6 0 0
San Diego State 165 46 .782 5 1 0
Ohio State 170 48 .780 6 0 0
New Mexico 158 50 .760 4 2 1
Florida 166 53 .758 5 1 0
VCU 161 56 .742 5 0 1
Utah State 147 57 .721 3 0 0
Creighton 152 62 .710 3 1 1
Florida State 135 70 .659 4 2 0
Dayton 137 72 .656 2 3 1
Cal 130 73 .640 4 2 1
Ole Miss 126 77 .621 1 3 0
Oklahoma State 125 77 .619 4 1 1
Minnesota 127 80 .614 3 2 1
UAB 118 76 .608 1 2 1
Maryland 123 80 .606 2 1 1
Illinois State 115 85 .575 0 3 1
Arizona State 112 86 .566 2 2 0
Massachusetts 109 86 .559 1 2 1
Virginia Tech 104 94 .525 3 0 1
Nebraska 98 93 .513 1 2 1
Rhode Island 98 98 .500 0 2 1
Charlotte 91 95 .489 0 1 1
Southern Illinois 77 111 .410 0 0 1

We're at the lower end of the standings, but the good news is that DK has 70 wins and three post-season appearances in the last three years.

Surprising how many teams have had coaching changes in the past six years.

EDIT: sorry it didn't format very well, but you can figure it out if you actually care.

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