Site has the Bobcats now listed as "solid in" for now.  Has us a 5th seed and perhaps a strong finish  gets us a top seed in the NIT with a home game. Could be some real exciting opponnets in the NIT for us. Cincinnati, Xavier, Dayton, PItt, West  Virginia, Cleveland State and Marshall could be in the NIT field.   Looks like the defending chumps UConn will be in the NIT......they lost to Providence and 7-10 in the Big East.....that smells NIT. Offcourse Bobcats would be glad to send Akron to NIT and win the MAC Tournament and upset the Buckeyes in the  first round.          

3/17-3/25.  Exams 3/12-3/16.

NIT First Round 3/13-3/14, Second Round 3/15-3/19, Quarterfinals 3/20-2/21.  No chance of hosting a game during regular, full-campus classes.

Would OU have to turn down a host game if it interferes with the high school tournament?

Last year Dayton was a 2 seed (or maybe a 3) in the NIT and was sent on the road to the College of Charleston for the first round (which they lost) because the game was scheduled the same night as the NCAA First Four.  I wouldn't expect much flexability from the NIT's side.

EDIT:  The bracket project has us as a #3 in the NIT right now...

http://bracketproject.blogspot.com/

I know logically that there is no correlation but doesn't it seem like even the slightest RPI/at-large/NITology talk on this messageboard is closely follow by a loss?  Perhaps such talk should be banned.  

No government action taking place on BA so speech rights are nonexistent.  



Ban post season speculation talk until post season is secured!  
 

Fitting as Southeastern Ohio boy and honorary OHIO alumnus Wm. Tecumseh Sherman was the first president of LSU. 

I'm not sure what would have happened had OU had to play a home game this Monday. 3 games would have had to been rescheduled with no open days until next Sunday.  Would they have moved every game back a day?  Irrelevant now, but that wold be my guess.

Doing a little analysis.  If what these sites say is true there are 16 teams behind us in the seedings.   There are 32 conferences and the NIT promises each regular season champ that if they do not get an NCAA bid they will get an NIT invite.  Of the 32 regular season champs, 16 have either already won their conference tourney or are shoe-ins to get NCAA bids.

Tourney Champs
Belmont
UNC-Asheville
Harvard*
Murray State
Davidson
St. Mary's

At-large Shoe-in
Temple
UNC
Kansas
Syracuse
tOSU
Memphis
Wichita State
Washington
Kentucky
New Mexico

Of the 16 remaining teams, only 5 have already lost in their conference tournaments and aren't guaranteed a spot.

Lost Conference Tourney
Drexel
Valpo
Iona
Oral Roberts
Middle Tennessee

Of these I think Drexel has a shot at getting at at-large.  The other four are almost assuredly going NIT. Two of those (Iona, Middle Tenn) were already ranked ahead of us in the Nitology so they aren't a threat to grab one of the 16 spots available behind us. That leaves 11 teams still in their conference tournaments that could lose and grab an NIT bid.

Still Allive for NCAA
Stony Brook (in finals vs Vermont on Saturday)
Montana (finals tonight vs Weber State)
Long Beach State (tourney starts tomorrow, strong at large candidate)
Utah Valley (tourney starts tomorrow)
Akron (semis Friday)
Savannah State (play in quarters vs Hampton tonight)
LIU (in finals vs Bobby Mo tonight)
Bucknell (in finals vs Lehigh tonight)
UT-Arlington (tourney starts tonight)
Mississippi Valley State (tourney starts tonight)
Nevada (tourney starts tomorrow

So IMO we stand a pretty good chance of getting an NIT bid if we happen to fall short this weekend.

OV, can you further define "fall Short?" does that inculde a loss in the quarter finals, or are you talking about taking an L in the chip?

I should add that I started looking at last year's tourament as a way to check the accuracy of the Nitology and Bracket Project's predictions.  In particular I wanted to see if the Big 6 guys got preferential treatment in bids.  What I found wasn't that Bigs got bids preferentially but they got ridiculous seeding advantages. Using RPI as a base here is what I found.  Overseeded means that they received a seed higher than their RPI ranking would suggest. Underseeded means they received a seed lower than their RPI ranking would suggest.

Overseeded
+4 Alabama (1 vs 5)
+3 Washington State (2 vs 5)
+2 Virginia Teach (1 vs 3)
+2 Colorado (1 vs 3)
+2 Miami (FL) (2 vs 4)
+2 Northwestern (4 vs 6)
+2 Murray State (6 vs 8)

Underseeded
-5 Harvard (6 vs 1)
-3 UTEP (5 vs 2)
-2 Missouri State (3 vs 1)
-2 College of Charleston (6 vs 4)
-2 Kent State (7 vs 5)

No mid was overseeded over a big.  No big was underseeded at all.

Earned #1 Seeds
Harvard (35 RPI)
Cleveland State (42)
Missouri State (43)
St. Mary's (46)

Actual #1 Seeds
Boston College (58)
Virginia Tech (62)
Colorado (65)
Alabama (80)*

*Kent, a #7 seed, had an RPI of 78

I wouldn't be so sure. A  lot of people still have them in the field.