# Poll for college basketball fans: Should the NIT be abolished?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-college-basketball-fans-should-the-nit-be-abolished/652764>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [March 12, 2013, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-college-basketball-fans-should-the-nit-be-abolished/652764 "2013-03-12T23:13:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-college-basketball-fans-should-the-nit-be-abolished/652764/21 "2013-03-19T19:44:44Z")

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I filled out a women’s bracket. (mostly for shiggles though)

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**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-college-basketball-fans-should-the-nit-be-abolished/652764/22 "2013-03-20T13:13:29Z")

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> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#):
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> One change the NIT made a few years ago got rid of one of its biggest problems; the tournament is now bracketed from the start. At one point, they used to seed teams geographically (so, in theory, you could get the best two teams meeting each other in an early round), and wait until all of a round’s games were over before announcing the next round’s pairings and sites, so schools got very little notice as to whether or not they would be hosting and/or where they would have to travel to next.

I think one reason they went to a bracket was they caught a lot of shit one year for obviously greasing the skids for Notre Dame to get to the finals in NY. They had the weakest team play in South Bend, then in the next round picked the weakest team to play in South Bend, then did the same in the third round. It was quite blatant. I believe they even had some weak teams grouped so that the survivor would have to travel to South Bend.

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**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-college-basketball-fans-should-the-nit-be-abolished/652764/23 "2013-03-20T13:23:52Z")

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> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#):
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> What are you talking about? UK players and us fans _love it_ when Kentucky goes to the NIT!

😃

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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-college-basketball-fans-should-the-nit-be-abolished/652764/24 "2013-03-20T13:28:57Z")

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Apparently Kentucky didn’t like being there, though.

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**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-college-basketball-fans-should-the-nit-be-abolished/652764/25 "2013-03-20T13:58:48Z")

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> [@JohnT](#):
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> 😃

> [@ElvisL1ves](#):
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> Apparently Kentucky didn’t like being there, though.

Ouch baby. Very ouch.

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