St. Johns Ranked This Week - MU Leads The Nation In Top 25 Games

[ChicosBailBonds]

I know we have some fans that would rather go back to a weaker conference so we could repeat the 1971 strategy of winning an nit banner without playing a single ranked team all season, but I'll take this year. Battling the best teams in the country in close, tv games all year.  Now let's just take it up one notch and turn these close losses into close wins, and let's try to avoid playing sju in the be. Don't think we will win that one by 30 this year.

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We won the 1970 NIT (Not 1971) banner because we CHOSE not to be in the NCAA tournament.  We were ranked #10 (#8 in the AP) in the nation and got screwed with where the NCAA was going to send us.  So Al and the team told the NCAA to stick it where the Sun Don't Shine and we went to the NIT instead.

http://espn.go.com/classic/s/2001/0126/1041658.html

You are correct, we didn't play any ranked teams in 1969-70...of course we were an Independent back then and not even in a "weaker conference" as you call it.

I don't know anyone here that is saying we should get out of the Big East.  That being said, if we're going to play in the Big East we should be in it to succeed. So far we have in the first five years while ALWAYS finishing in the upper division.  Let's hope that doesn't change.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Did you make a wrong turn on your way to the IU board?

I don't think so...I thought banners were for WINNING stuff...like the Maui Invitational, NIT, National Catholic Championship, NCAA Tournament, etc.

Seems here that people want to give away trophies because when we lose it's by less than 10 points and we played a bunch of tough teams. 

Yeah, we play a tough schedule as far as the country goes, but we haven't even played a top 3 schedule in our own conference.  http://www.kenpom.com/conf.php?c=BE    People need to put some things in perspective.  We're supposed to be a big boy program and with a big boy schedule.  As of tonight, we haven't even played the toughest schedule in our own state (MU 32nd ranked while Wisconsin is at 19th).