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[QUOTE="PoppyHart, post: 2119996, member: 515"]
There was no value to playing the 2016 Brooklyn Hoops (tm) Holiday Invitational.

- We played 3 games against creampuffs (sorry Monmouth) which do not excite anyone and don't really help our computer rankings.  
- The one game in NYC was on a Saturday in November during rivalry week for CFB!
- The opponent was a football school with 5 NCAA appearances in 40+ years, and who hasn't won an NCAA tourney game since 1973
- The game was televised by something called the American Sports Network (rumored to be going out of business in 3 weeks) w/ Mike Gleason and Mark Adams on the call.
- The game was ostensibly a trial run for the ACCT, but whatever familiarity we garnered in November was of little help in March.

We got into the tourney in 2016 b/c of Atlantis.  We ended November 2015 with neutral court wins over 2 top-35 RPI teams (one of who would ultimately be a 3-seed).  We left November 2016 with nothing.

Of course, we can't play in Atlantis or Maui every year. But in the years we are not, we need to travel to the places where we can play 3 neutral-site, RPI-enhancing, selection committee-approved games; Disney, Charleston, Vegas, Anaheim, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, etc..  Not the made for TV 1-off events which provide 3 home games and 1-predetermined neutral site game.
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