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...goal of playing the Boston Colleges and the Dukes and playing in the Long Beach Classic is to prepare his squad for the Ivy League race. For every team here at the Classic, that was the purpose, and Long Beach St. came out the winner. After participating in the NIT Tournament last year, the 49ers stumbled to a 2-5 start. But Long Beach St. Coach Seth Greenberg is buoyed for the 49ers Big West opening game after their sweep of Harvard and Brooklyn in the Classic...
...there were "NIT" banners at Yale's Payne Whitney Gym urging that tournament's selection committee to consider the Elis--Ivy League runner-up to Princeton--for its postseason tournament. Yale is unlikely to garner the bid, despite its 19-7 record, because of its easy schedule. Case Western Reserve, Swarthmore and Columbia aren't exactly the type of competition any national tournament wants to see its teams playing...
...mere fact that any Ivy League team is being considered for the NIT is a huge change in this era when the league's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament has been in jeopardy...
...away from anNCAA tournament bid, one game behind theformidable Tigers, who have not lost at home in 18games. The Elis were the first Ivy team to upsetPrinceton, topping the defending Ivy champs,39-37, in the first game of the season. And now,it has earned talk of an NIT...
...Harvard has to play better than better,because every program is playing better. Whetherit be self-imposed pressure caused by the threatof losing its automatic bid or a better educationdrawing more serious athletes, the Ivy League--notjust Yale--has earned its NIT consideration thisyear...