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NIT Archive
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Some reasons to celebrate AZ Wildcats playing in NIT…
Now that the University of Arizona men’s basketball team is headed to the NIT Tournament, Sean Miller has a chance to do something one of the coaching legends at the school before him never could. No, we’re not talking about comparing him to Lute Olson. He gets enough of that on a daily basis. Olson [...] -
Tourney bubble bursts. ASU packs for the NIT. UA packs it in
When the NCAA Tournament bubble burst, Arizona’s Pac-10 colleges landed in different places. Neither place was first choice. ASU (22-10) found itself with an invitation to the National Invitation Tournament (NIT), where it at least got a No. 1 seed. But UofA (16-15) wasn’t extended the same courtesy. And when the fledgling College Basketball Invitational [...] -
ASU, UA get bounced from Pac-10 tourney. What now?
Well, it looks those who have been predicting just one Pac-10 representative will go to the Big Dance this year may be right, although hope isn’t dead yet for a second invite. Unfortunately, that team probably won’t be from Arizona. After ASU lost to UCLA, 70-61, and UofA was beat by Stanford, 75-69, in last [...]
