South Carolina MBB won’t play in NIT despite invite. Lamont Paris explains why
Despite finishing with a 12-20 record — and dead last in the SEC with two conference victories — the Gamecocks men’s basketball team was in line for a postseason berth in the National Invitational Tournament. In fact, they earned an automatic exemption into the NIT Tournament.
The only 2 SEC programs not to make the NCAA Tournament received automatic bids to the NIT but declined the opportunity.
As the SEC set a record for the most teams from a conference in the NCAA Men’s tournament, the door opened for the South ...
SMU, Dayton, UC Irvine and San Francisco secured No. 1 seeds for the 2025 NIT. The 32-team field was announced Sunday with ...
The South Carolina men's basketball team declined a bid to the NIT, ending the year at 12-20. The Gamecocks would have been ...
An invitation for USC would be unusual, but not unprecedented. While the Gamecocks (12-20) wouldn’t be the first sub-.500 ...
The Shockers had just returned home after being eliminated from the American Athletic Conference tournament the day before.
South Carolina's chances to make the NIT got shakier late Saturday night as bubble teams continued to win in conference ...
Wake Forest, Pittsburgh, South Carolina and LSU were among the schools that declined NIT bids. Wake Forest coach Steve Forbes ...
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