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Created as an alternative to what used to be the exclusive NCAA tourney, the NIT has lost some of its past prestige as the older NCAA event has expanded. Its 53 invitations this year will be the most ever, after that has created a dearth of top teams from which the NIT can choose...
With the NCAA not expected to invite more than one Ivy school, McLaughlin turned his attention towards the NIT...
...McLaughlin's banking on some-thing besides the Ivy's lack of basketball tradition. He's counting on the its abundance of academic tradition. "I'd think it would be a great thing for the NIT," he explains. "It would be a great thing for college basketball to have a school that's non-scholarship, where kids work their way through school, representing...
That'll be up to the NIT tournament committee, which consists of ECAC Commissioner Robert Whitelaw, Wagner Coach Neil Kennett, Manhattan Athletic Director Jack Powers. New York University Athletic Director Daniel Quilty and Fordham Athletic Director Dave Rice...
...campuses across the country and whose semifinals and finals will be played at Madison Square Garden in New York-is Peter Carlesimo, who has served as the athletic director at Fordham McLaughlin was a standout basketball guard there on the 1968 and 1969 teams that participated in the NIT...