The NIT

Now the Mastercard NIT,....how the heck didn't Washington make this tournament....the NIT has to be the ultimate...who cares...tournament

Check out both NIT brackets and NCAA brackets, updated real time as the Dance begins

So strong is the stigma of the post-season National Invitation Tournament as a consolation fixture that when teams with tenuous hopes of an NCAA Tournament berth lose away from home late in the season, opposing fans chant "N-I-T! N-I-T!" to taunt the players in the closing seconds. This is done regardless of whether the home team is headed for the NCAA Tournament or not. Irv Moss, a journalist for the Denver Post, once wrote of such a chant to a defeated team, "The three-letter word...was far more cutting than any four-letter word they could have hollered."

Download the 2007 NIT bracket...go Syracuse...not Michigan

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