After the loss on Saturday to Drake, I took no fewer than four phone calls from people wondering if I knew whether the Qwest Center would be available for a NIT game. (It is). These same people prefaced their calls by asking whether I think the Jays have any shot at an at-large bid (I didn't, and I still don't).
In an ideal world, the fourth place team in the seventh or eighth best conference would be squarely on the bubble, and with a couple of breaks, could find themselves in. Of course, we don't live in such a world. The world we live in is one where a game between two pedestrian Big East teams is billed as an "elimination game". That's how the Worldwide Leader in Horse Poop billed the Villanova-Syracuse game on Wednesday. 19-11 Villanova and 19-12 Syracuse. After Nova won, they're 20-11, and according to the WWL, they're in, and Syracuse is out.
Nothing puts a smile on my face faster than hearing Jim Boeheim's team won't make the tournament. There's not a coach in America with a bigger sense of entitlement, in my opinion, and seeing his team shipped off to the NIT makes me very happy.
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