The Georgia Bulldogs Are the Best Basketball Team Not to Make It Into Postseason Play
by T Kyle King on Mar 15, 2010 7:50 PM EDT
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PrintI don’t mean to steal Mr. Sanchez’s thunder, but it turns out Mark Fox was right: Georgia did not receive a postseason invitation, not to the NCAA tournament, nor to the NIT, nor to the CBI, nor to the CIT. (And people think there are too many bowl games?!?!)
Still, strides were made, as the Bulldogs stack up well against several tournament teams and even resemble a tournament team themselves. So that’s progress, I guess.
Go ‘Dawgs!
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The NCAA tournament is the only one that matters.
The NIT, far removed from it’s heyday before NCAA expansion in 1985, is still the oldest tournament in college basketball and it used to mean something. Today, it’s where most of the bubble teams go to compete for the mythical “65th best” team in America spot. Whatever the CBI (China-Burma-India Theater of operations for you World War 2 historians), or CIT (currently valued at 36.90 per share, up +0.09 on the NYSE) is, I don’t want it or care as a fan. Perhaps there is some value in playing in a post-season tournament that ultimately doesn’t matter except for a nice banner to hang in your gym, but going to the NIT (much, much less the CBI or CIT) is essentially for programs that failed to reach the goal: The Big Dance. Why celebrate anything less?
I’m glad we aren’t playing anymore. This gives coach Fox time to rack up some frequent flyer miles as he is out shootin’, lootin’, and recruitin’.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
The good news is pretty soon the tourney will expand to 256 spots...
Then we’re sure to be at least a bubble team.
"We have a lot of passionate fans at Georgia and we look forward to giving them something to be positive about."
-Todd Grantham.
At least I can understand
the major sports we’re playing again. I’ll try harder to understand it next year.
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances." Mark Twain
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