But this time, it's not pre-meditated murder, armed robbery or grand larceny. 65, no matter what those douchebags at UVA tell you.īy now you've surely heard that - gasp! - Chris Henry is in more legal trouble. Because you're a whole lot better than No. And getting to hang a championship banner ain't half bad either. Winning a game in the Tourney is great, but winning the last game of the season is a unique feeling that not too many teams can experience. We'd probably go with NIT champ, in all honesty. So this brings up an interesting question: What would you rather have your favorite team (let's say the Washington Huskies, because really, who's favorite team isn't the Huskies?) do: win the NIT or go out in, say, the second round of the Dance? You have the NCAA champ, the NIT champ, and maybe a few teams so bad they didn't make their conference tourney, but somehow won their last regular-season game. The winner is one of very few teams to win its last game of the season.
Instead, the NIT reveals something much greater. So when West Fuckin Virgina puts the hammer down and prevents a team from the Confederate Flag-flying state of South Carolina from winning its third-straight NIT championship (South Carolina had won two straight titles), we don't want to here, "We're 65!" The NIT winner could probably beat over half of the NCAA Tournament field and Wisconsin on a yearly basis. We've never bought that saying, "We're 65!" for a motherfucking second.