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When bids to the 1984 National Invitational Tournament (NIT) are released next Monday. McLaughlin and his crew hope to find the Crimson's name among the 32 teams who will receive invitations to the prestigious tourney...
...Crimson lost its shot at an automatic berth in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tourney-the nation's premiere postseason basketball event when Princeton edged out Harvard for the Ivy League title by sweeping its games with Yale and Brown last weekend Harvard, which lost to Cornell on Friday but defeated Columbia on Saturday, finished one game behind the 10-4 champion Tigers, who with their title are headed for the 53-team NCAA extravaganza...
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...
...tourney-whose first round will be played at 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...
Racquetmen Peter Dinneen, undefeated this season prior to his Class C final loss to Ullman, won the tourney's sportsmanship award...