Word: tourneys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson finished with a 15-12 overall record and a 9-5 Ivy slate, one game behind league champion Princeton who thanks to its title, is on its way to the bigger and more prestigious NCAA tourney...
...York-based tourney didn't bite, though, opting instead for some talented teams bypassed by the 53-team NCAA, which released its bids a day earlier...
...Sunday, the NCAA will issue tourney invitations to a record 53 teams, and those squads will automatically become intelligible for NIT competition. The very next day, the NIT will extend 32 bids...
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...