2023 Women's NIT

[ramster]

A10 gets 5 teams in the 64 Team Field.

UMASS
Fordham
Rhode Island
Richmond
Saint Joseph's

[Rhody72]

I really dislike the WBB teams have a 10 day lay-off before NCAA/NIT games begin. Extend the season a week!

[PeteRI]

Go Lady Rams!

[ramster]

Teams in the Field of 64
Game schedule to be announced today on Monday

Automatic qualifiers
Arkansas (21-12)
Boston (24-8)
Bowling Green (27-6)
Columbia (23-5)
Fairleigh Dickinson (24-7)
Green Bay (27-5)
High Point (17-14)
Illinois State (24-8)
Jackson State (21-9)
Kansas (19-11)
Liberty (24-8)
Little Rock (21-10)
Memphis (20-10)
Morgan State (17-11)
Nebraska (16-14)
Niagara (18-12)
North Dakota State (18-11)
Northern Arizona (21-13)
San Diego (17-13)
Seton Hall (18-14)
Stephen F. Austin (26-6)
Syracuse (18-12)
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (19-11)
Texas State (23-9)
Towson (21-11)
Albany (22-11)
UC-Irvine (24-6)
UMass (26-6)
Washington (15-14)
Western Kentucky (19-13)
Wofford (22-9)
Wyoming (22-10)

At-large teams (32)
Auburn (15-14)
Ball State (25-8)
Belmont (23-11)
BYU (16-16)
Clemson (17-15)
Colorado State (20-11)
Drexel (21-9)
Florida (16-14)
Fordham (18-12)
Harvard (17-11)
Kansas State (17-16)
Kent State (21-10)
Long Beach State (23-9)
Louisiana Tech (19-12)
Missouri (17-13)
Missouri State (20-11)
New Mexico (20-12)
Northern Iowa (22-9)
Oregon (17-14)
Penn (17-11)
Rhode Island (24-6)
Rice (22-8)
Richmond (20-10)
Saint Joseph’s (20-10)
San Diego State (23-10)
San Francisco (19-12)
SMU (16-12)
Texas Tech (18-14)
Tulane (18-13)
UTEP (20-11)
Wake Forest (16-16)
Wichita State (18-14)

[RhowdyRam02]

According to an email I received from the athletic department, the bracket should be announced at 2 and if we're scheduled to host a game tickets will go on sale about an hour later

[Rhody72]

BU @ URI Friday 6pm

[ramster]

Just a hunch. Home game vs BU. If so, they will not be an easy out. They were down 22 to Holy Cross only to come back within 2 and fall short. First round is usually with visiting teams travelling short distances.

Good call!!

[Billyboy78]

[steviep123]

It's bad planning and absurd to have to face a conference opponent in the second round. Ideally with 4 conference teams in the field, none should face each other before the final 4. Now, I do understand that could also depend on their seeding so I'll cut some slack for the final 8, but the 2nd round shouldn't happen.

Edit: Looking at the bracket:

https://womensnit.com/tournaments/brack ... n-WNIT/104

I'll retract this as it seems location based. Western teams on one side and eastern on the other. That makes it so the 4 A10 teams are all on one side of the bracket which makes more sense now.

[SmartyBarrett]

It's all region-based... the WNIT has no direct affiliation with the NCAA so there's not a lot (if any) funding there. Teams have to pay their own way so it's structured as such to cut down on travel costs.

[RhowdyRam02]

I'm assuming we'd host the second round as well if we win Friday

[ramster]

Rankings

Boston University (URI)
NET 119 (71)
RPI 112 (51)

[jcru]

Should be:

1st rd URI v BU, Kingston
2nd rd URI v Richmond, Kingston
3rd rd URI v UMass, Amherst

And anything less than that, is not taking care of business

[LoveThoseRams]

Got my tickets...lets fill the Ryan Center!

[PeteRI]

Got my tickets...lets fill the Ryan Center!

You betcha! Also got my 23-24 season tickets. Best game in town!!

[steviep123]

[jcru]

Richmond already won their game, so the winner of URI v BU will face Richmond.

Harvard will face the winner of UMass v Albany.

The winners of the first three and the second three will face each other.

[jcru]

Seton Hall eliminated St Josephs

Syracuse beat Kent St

Fordham beat Drexel

Columbia still has to play Fairleigh Dickinson.

The winner of the previous post will face the winner of this group, and take the entire Group 2.

[jcru]

The journey starts on St. Patrick's Day, ends on April Fool's Day.

Let's take them one at a time.

[jcru]

Happy St. Patrick's Day

[Billyboy78]

Richmond already won their game, so the winner of URI v BU will face Richmond.

Harvard will face the winner of UMass v Albany.

The winners of the first three and the second three will face each other.

So, if we win tonight, when and where (most likely) would that game be?

[jcru]

It should be at the Ryan. I know the NIT likes to place the game where it will get the most seat sales, but these two teams are in the same Conference and one was clearly better than the other.

[Rhody72]

Let's keep the NIT in perspective. This is an exhibition tournament among teams not good enough to make the NCAAT. We are getting better but we are not good enough yet. Making the NIT has never been a goal. Never be satisfied with making the NIT.

[Billyboy78]

Let's keep the NIT in perspective. This is an exhibition tournament among teams not good enough to make the NCAAT. We are getting better but we are not good enough yet. Making the NIT has never been a goal. Never be satisfied with making the NIT.

I'd be very happy with winning the NIT.

[steviep123]

Let's keep the NIT in perspective. This is an exhibition tournament among teams not good enough to make the NCAAT. We are getting better but we are not good enough yet. Making the NIT has never been a goal. Never be satisfied with making the NIT.

No one is...but it can be used as a good stepping stone/tournament to gain experience.

[Rhody72]

No one is...but it can be used as a good stepping stone/tournament to gain experience.

What was impressive this year was that this was a re-building year in which we were competitive to tie for the conference because of our depth. "A good stepping stone" is a euphemism for not quite being good enough.

[Ramulous]

I have said for years that it is better to be blown out in the first round of the NCAA’s than to win the NIT. That being said I am going to the game and rooting for Rhody as I always do!

[ATPTourFan]

It should be at the Ryan. I know the NIT likes to place the game where it will get the most seat sales, but these two teams are in the same Conference and one was clearly better than the other.

Are you sure? Since the NCAA started running the NIT a decade ago, it hasn’t been run that way. It used to be that way back in the Baron years, where our sparkling new Ryan Center got us some great home games.

[jcru]

No, I'm not sure, but I am a disgruntled URI fan, so if they don't give us the home game, I'm going to be Pisssssssed

[jcru]

Milan, that might hold for the Men's side, but the women's NIT is a different animal, I think. They still take it very seriously and the top finishers are traditionally primed to make it to the NCAA the following year, like it used to be back in the day.

[ramster]

URI visits Harvard Thursday March 23 at 7pm
Harvard defeated UMASS by 2 points tonight

[steviep123]

I'm so bummed I can't make the game. Harvard is only a few miles from me.

[theblueram]

Let's keep the NIT in perspective. This is an exhibition tournament among teams not good enough to make the NCAAT. We are getting better but we are not good enough yet. Making the NIT has never been a goal. Never be satisfied with making the NIT.

Now you're shitting on the women's team? Good god dude, you are an insufferable curmudgeon.

[Rhody72]

Let's keep the NIT in perspective. This is an exhibition tournament among teams not good enough to make the NCAAT. We are getting better but we are not good enough yet. Making the NIT has never been a goal. Never be satisfied with making the NIT.

Now you're shitting on the women's team? Good god dude, you are an insufferable curmudgeon.

No. Great for a re-building year. I couldn't expect more. But, making the NIT is no team's goal.

[steviep123]

Let's keep the NIT in perspective. This is an exhibition tournament among teams not good enough to make the NCAAT. We are getting better but we are not good enough yet. Making the NIT has never been a goal. Never be satisfied with making the NIT.

Now you're shitting on the women's team? Good god dude, you are an insufferable curmudgeon.

No. Great for a re-building year. I couldn't expect more. But, making the NIT is no team's goal.

No one said it was - but that's where we are so let's make the best of it and win the damn thing.

[jcru]

NIT might not be the goal, but it's not the booby prize (no pun intended) in the women's division that it tends to be in the men's.

These college ladies are ultra competitive and they just want to win, period. There is no shame with them, they play to win.

[PeteRI]

Let's keep the NIT in perspective. This is an exhibition tournament among teams not good enough to make the NCAAT. We are getting better but we are not good enough yet. Making the NIT has never been a goal. Never be satisfied with making the NIT.

Now you're shitting on the women's team? Good god dude, you are an insufferable curmudgeon.

No. Great for a re-building year. I couldn't expect more. But, making the NIT is no team's goal.

Tammi took over a program that hadn't made a postseason tournament since 1996 and has led the team to postseason tournaments two years in a row, won the most postseason games in the history of the program and set new records for wins in consecutive years. I finally figured out Rhody72 refers to your IQ because you are an absolute certifiable idiot - not to mention an execrable excuse of a human being.

[Rhody72]

No one said it was - but that's where we are so let's make the best of it and win the damn thing.

As do you. I root for URI to win every game and do better than any point spreads regardless of whether the game counts for anything or not. This board voted to take my tag line as its name: NCAAs or Bust. This had been my tag line on prior Iboards.I I rail at posts that suggest satisfaction with anything less. While I have been a long suffering fan (since the days of Dayna Smith for WBB), I'll go to my grave striving for this ultimate goal. Along the way, I'll savor every win, suffer with every loss and never be satisfied with lower goals.

[steviep123]

No one said it was - but that's where we are so let's make the best of it and win the damn thing.

As do you. I root for URI to win every game and do better than any point spreads regardless of whether the game counts for anything or not. This board voted to take my tag line as its name: NCAAs or Bust. This had been my tag line on prior Iboards.I I rail at posts that suggest satisfaction with anything less. While I have been a long suffering fan (since the days of Dayna Smith for WBB), I'll go to my grave striving for this ultimate goal. Along the way, I'll savor every win, suffer with every loss and never be satisfied with lower goals.

You wanted to extend David Cox’ contract when it was clear he wasn’t the guy.

[Rhody72]

You wanted to extend David Cox’ contract when it was clear he wasn’t the guy.

For the 100th time, I wanted to extend the contract and end the buy-out while we lined up a replacement, If DC would not accept, he should have been fired. He wasn't the guy and we needed to make lemonade with a lemon. This is why Archie had no young players and we were awful this year. I was opposed to the original DC hiring because he wasn't ready. Shades of JD's hiring.

[steviep123]

You wanted to extend David Cox’ contract when it was clear he wasn’t the guy.

For the 100th time, I wanted to extend the contract and end the buy-out while we lined up a replacement, If DC would not accept, he should have been fired. He wasn't the guy and we needed to make lemonade with a lemon. This is why Archie had no young players and we were awful this year. I was opposed to the original DC hiring because he wasn't ready. Shades of JD's hiring.

Then we simply should have moved on from him earlier. Not extend him at all - that makes zero sense.

[ramster]

If we beat Harvard then we play the winner of Syracuse and Columbia. This will be a road game for URI.
The Great Eight Game would be scheduled between Saturday March 25 and Monday March 27 at either Syracuse or Columbia

NET (RPI) Wednesday March 22
URI - 71 (47)
Harvard - 78 (54)
Columbia - 47 (41)
Syracuse - 57 (62)

[RhowdyRam02]

You wanted to extend David Cox’ contract when it was clear he wasn’t the guy.

For the 100th time, I wanted to extend the contract and end the buy-out while we lined up a replacement, If DC would not accept, he should have been fired. He wasn't the guy and we needed to make lemonade with a lemon. This is why Archie had no young players and we were awful this year. I was opposed to the original DC hiring because he wasn't ready. Shades of JD's hiring.

It's funny, you said over and over again that we should have extended the contract, but you didn't add the ending the buyout part until after his last year, after he was fired, after Archie was hired, and after you got constantly called out on your wrong opinion

[Rhody72]

It's funny, you said over and over again that we should have extended the contract, but you didn't add the ending the buyout part until after his last year, after he was fired, after Archie was hired, and after you got constantly called out on your wrong opinion

Not extending the buy-out was always my intention. It's a fact that Thorr extended DC's contract and the buy-out which URI had to buy-out when he fired him a year later. Why not fire DC mid-season and hire Archie then when he could salvage players from the roster?

[ATPTourFan]

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[RF1]

Good luck to the URI Women tonight at Harvard.

[NHRamFan]

Rhody! Rhody! Rhody!!!!

[ramster]

Teams in the Field of 64 now reduced by 48 to The Super 16

8 AQ's and 8 At-Large Teams Remaining

Remaining Automatic qualifiers
Arkansas (21-12)
Bowling Green (27-6)
Columbia (23-5)
Kansas (19-11)
Memphis (20-10)
Nebraska (16-14)
Syracuse (18-12)
Washington (15-14)

Remaining At-large teams (32)
Clemson (17-15)
Florida (16-14)
Harvard (17-11)
Kansas State (17-16)
Oregon (17-14)
Rhode Island (24-6)
San Diego State (23-10)
Texas Tech (18-14)

[ramster]

5 Super 16 Games Thursday March 23
Latest NET included for each team

• 66-Memphis @ 73-Bowling Green 6pm ESPN3

• 71-Rhode Island @ 78-Harvard 7pm ESPN3

• 83-Florida @ 58-Clemson 7pm ACCNX

• 43-Nebraska @ 37-Kansas 7:30pm

• 132-San Diego @ 19-Oregon 9pm

3 Super 16 Games Friday March 24

• 57-Syracuse @ 47-Columbia 7pm ESPN3

• 75-Texas Tech @ 48-Arkansas 8pm SECN+

• 65-Kansas State @ 68-Washington 10pm

[4Diffs]

5 Super 16 Games Thursday March 23
Latest NET included for each team

• 66-Memphis @ 73-Bowling Green 6pm ESPN3

• 71-Rhode Island @ 78-Harvard 7pm ESPN3

• 83-Florida @ 58-Clemson 7pm ACCNX

• 43-Nebraska @ 37-Kansas 7:30pm

• 132-San Diego @ 19-Oregon 9pm

3 Super 16 Games Friday March 24

• 57-Syracuse @ 47-Columbia 7pm ESPN3

• 75-Texas Tech @ 48-Arkansas 8pm SECN+

• 65-Kansas State @ 68-Washington 10pm

Is the NET for Oregon correct? They were left out of the NCAA's with a 19 NET? Wow. Never would have happened on the Men's side since they are in a P5.

Tough game for the Lady Rams tonight. Hope they play well and win. Would this game been at the Ryan if it was available? Relatively equal NET's.