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Message: [QUOTE="OrangePA, post: 5019135, member: 204"] There were many in 1979 who discounted the NIT. Bob Knight was one who rejected that point of view. He talked about the great tradition of the tournament and explained that it was a national tournament even if it was no longer college basketball's national championship tournament. He thought it was a big deal that IU won that year even if some might have seen the NIT as "irrelevant." I have been around long enough to know how it feels rooting for a really lousy college BB program - something we had for much of the 1960s. And I have seen a lot of really bad college football on the Hill. So, I don't think I'll ever be so presumptuous as to dismiss the NIT or my team's play in the event. I really enjoy rooting for the Orange even if it's not for the national championship and if the team had played in the NIT and if it had won, I would have seen that as an accomplishment and something to be celebrated. [/QUOTE]