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Message: [QUOTE="Delmar, post: 2108315, member: 3944"] Back in 1981, Syracuse had a nice run in the NIT. Syracuse won the first ever Big East tournament that year which was held in the Carrier Dome, but there was no automatic bid back then. The NCAA tournament was only 48 teams, so there were some good teams in the NIT. Syracuse beat Marquette, Holy Cross, Michigan, and Purdue on the way to the final which we lost to Tulsa. Tulsa was coached by Nolan Richardson and had Paul Pressey. The quality of the NIT was much higher then. The previous year's winner was Virginia with Ralph Sampson. The year before that it was Indiana. When the NCAA went to 64 teams, that pretty much diluted the quality of the tournament. If this were 35 years ago, I'd vote for a long in the NIT, but now I'd take the Big Dance every time. [/QUOTE]