Monday, March 16, 2009

More March March, The CollegeInsider.com Tournament

This surprised the us at the OSG HQ this morning. We weren't aware of another post season college basketball tournament called the CollegeInsider.com post season tournament was around. The CIT begins Tuesday with a 16 team field.

I must say CIT has dropped the CBI to 4th in the food chain. There are no losers in this field of 16 and has a creditible field of former head coaches on their selection committee. When you have Lefty Driesell, Nolan Richardson, Lou Henson just to name a few on your committee, your tournament is in good hands.

Here's the CIT 16:

Tuesday, March 17
Rider (19-12) at Liberty (22-11), 7 p.m.
Kent State (19-14) at Oakland, Mich. (22-12), 7 p.m.

Wednesday, March 18
Belmont (19-12) at Evansville (17-13), 8 p.m.
Austin Peay (19-13) at Bradley (18-14), 8:05 p.m.
The Citadel (20-12) at Old Dominion (21-10), TBA
Mount St. Mary's (19-13) at James Madison (19-14), TBA
Portland (19-12) at Pacific (19-11), TBA
Drake (17-5) at Idaho (16-15), TBA

Did you notice all the teams involved are mid-majors? The Missouri Valley Conference has 3 teams in CIT and one of those schools could win it.

Yes, we have an office pool for the CIT at the OSG compound.
But when we really hear the phrase "CIT" all we really think about is this...

We do not know, however, if there will be any smoking, drinking, fooling around, or noogies during play of this particular tournament...

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