Over the past couple of seasons, a growing story line for college basketball has been high-profile teams on the NCAA Tournament bubble missing out on the Big Dance, then declining invitations to the National Invitational Tournament (NIT).
This year, that list is headlined by St. Johns, Oklahoma and Pitt, who found themselves on the outside looking in at the field of 68 and decided to call it a season rather than compete in the event.
ESPN analyst and former Marquette, Indiana and Georgia head coach Tom Crean said on Sunday that he doesn’t like it.
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