25Th National Invitation Basketball Tournament 2009-2010
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2009-10 MEDIA GUIDE NIT Season Tip-Off Postseason NIT 2009 DICK'S SPORTING GOODS NIT SEASON TIP-OFF College Basketball's Beginning ... www.nit.or3 REGIONAL ROUND SEMIFINAL ROUND CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND • November 16 & 17 November 25 November 27 • n 1 DUKE QI 3 November 16 ...(I) Coastal Carolina East Championship 0 0 :I C November17 :i 3- m 8 Charlotte a. QI )> 0 3 V, November 16 ...0 -z -t ~n Elon QI Madison Square Garden a. C East Consolation November 17 November 25 3 4 ARIZONA STATE November 16 ~ (I) Texas St at e West Championship = -t November 17 "' (I) ~ 3 ~ 7 TCU a-a -g [;l - November 16 0 - -t )> )> -, N c:a_l ~t._N_c,rthridge (I) :I Madison Square Garden QI West Consolation November 17 November27 CHAMPION "ti 3 LSU (I) ... November 16 (I) s g, Indiana State South Championship QI ... ... 0 November 17 nQl:::iv, (I) < ::0 0 5 Western Ke~ ;a. ;:;· 0 C: ro:::J"C -t November 16 ... )> QQ :c "' ,!'D,... Milwaukee "'11) Madison Square Garden 3 )> er South Consolation November 17 November 25 < :c 2 UCONN DI November 16 ~ Col_[ate North Championship )> VI November 17 G) ... z DI 0 0 6 Hofstra 3 ~ ::0 -t November 16 "O - ----- ~ Q :c Yale Consolation Game "ti :::.QI Madison Square Garden c5' North Consolation November 17 November 27 :I Consolation Round November 23, 24 ALL GAMES EASTERN TIME// HOME TEAM IN BOLD ©Copyright 2009 NIT, LLC. · NATIONAL INVITATION TOURNAMENT TABLE OF CONTENTS / DIRECTORY / CATES TABLE OF CONTENTS NIT, LLC Lincoln Building 2009 NIT Season Tip-Off Bracket... .............................IF C 60 East 42nd Street, Suite 660 Staff Directory ............................................................ .. 1 New York, NY 10165-0015 (212) 425-6510 Selection Committee ...................................................... 1 (212) 785-0594 (fax) History of the NIT Season Tip-Off ................... ............... 2 www.nit.org 25th Anniversary of the NIT Season Tip-Off... .................3 BOARD MEMBERS NIT SELECTION COMMITTEE NIT Season Tip-Off Results ............................................4 Tom Jernstedt C.M. Newton (chair) Joni Comstock Rudy Davalos NIT Season Tip-Off Participating Teams ........................ 8 David Berst Don Devoe Jim Isch Gene Keady NIT Season Tip-Off Notes & Records .............................. 9 Reggie Minton John J. Powers Coaches in the NIT Season Tip-Off .............................. 13 Les Robinson Carroll WIiiiams Postseason NIT History ................................................ 16 The Selection Process ................................................ 18 ADMINISTRATION President ......................................................G reg Shaheen (317-917-6487) Postseason NIT Order of Finish ............................. ....... 20 Participating Institutions/Contract Matters .............................. John J. Powers Media Coordinator .................................................... ............ Ch ristine Fallon Postseason NIT Participating Teams ............................2 1 Operations Management ........................................................... .WIii Hopkins Operations Coordinator .........., .. ........................................... Daniel Mastriano Postseason NIT Results ................................................ 25 Accounting ...................................................... Beth Barnett (31 7-917-6430) Officiating ............................................................ Art Hyland (508-778-4811) Postseason NIT Notes & Records ................................ 37 Officials Assistant .............................................. Linda Yates (401-272-9108) Photographer .......... ....... ............................................................... S.R. Smith 201 OP ostseason NIT Bracket .................................... IBC TELEVISION RADIO ESPN NIT, LLC ESPN Plaza Contact: WIii Hopkins 2009 NIT SEASON TIP-OFF DATES Bristol, CT 0601 0 (21 2) 425-6510 November 16, 17 ..................................................Regional Round Contact: Nick Dawson (860) 766-9004 November 23, 24 ............................................ Consolation Bracket November 25 ...................................................... Semifinal Round November 27 ............................ Championship/Consolatioh Games Madison Square Garden Two Pennsylvania Plaza, 14th Floor 6MRDlrn Nm URRf N 2010 POSTSEASON NIT DATES New York1 NY 10121 RRDE March 16, 17 ..............................................................Fir:st Round www.thegarden.com March 18, 19, 20, 22 .............................................. Second Round MSG SPORTS PROPERTIES March 23, 24, 25 ...................................................... Quarterilnals Executive Vice President ...................... ,.. .....................................Joe l Fisher March 30 .................................................. Semifinal Doubleheader Vice President, Public Relations.. .......................................... Dan Schoenberg Vice President, Marketing ............................................................ Adam Thier Aprlf 1 .......................................................... Championship Game Director, Public Relations ............................................................L arry Torres Director, Production ............................................................ Josephine Traina Director, Sports Events .......................................................... Dylan Wanagiel Manager, Marketing .................................................. ................ Sal Federico The 2009--10 National Invitation Tournament media guide Coordinator, Public Relations ................................................M andy Gutmann was designed and printed by MultiAd, Peoria, Illinois. Coordinator, Marketing ...................................... ........................Sara Kamber Dave Mateer-project manager Becky French-designer Senior Adm inistrative Assistant. ............................ ......... Terpsy Chatzithomas 1 NATIONAL INVITATION TOURNAMENT NIT SEASON TIP-OFF HISTORY The idea of a preseason NIT came to the late Executive Director Success in the NIT Season Tip Peter A. Carlesimo in the early 1980s as a way to support Off Tournament often is a its older sibling, the postseason NIT. The expansion of the forecast for success later in NCAA field and the lack of a television contract threatened the March as 73 of 96 Tip-Off continuation of the nation's oldest postseason tournament, which finalists have gone on to play was founded in 1938 by a group of New York City sportswriters. in the NCAA Tournament. The NCAA tournament, founded a year after the NIT, continued Following appearances in Its climb as the rising star, and every March the star shone New York for the NIT semis, a bit brighter. Duke (three times), UNLV and Connecticut each went on to From the beginning, all NIT games were played in the tourna win the national championship ment's home, Madison Square Garden. However, attendance later that year. was waning, and fans were staying away until the semifinals and finals. Carlesimo breathed new life into the storied event in 1977 The Preseason NIT and the NIT by playing early round games on campus sites, saving Madison changed hands in 2005 and Square Garden for just the semifinals and finals. The format are now administered by the change helped tremendously, though Carlesimo felt that in order NIT, LLC, which comes under DeShawnWilliams earned to ensure a healthy future for the postseason NIT, additional the umbrella of the NCAA. MVP honors as Syracuse support would have to be provided. Thus, the preseason NIT. That same year, an inaugural claimed the 200 l title. at-large committee The first preseason NIT was "" was formed to select teams and oversee the running played in November of 1985 and of the tournament. was known as the Big Apple NIT. The field featured 16 teams, as it The original NIT Selection Committee featured two still does. However, four-team Naismith Hall of Famers, C. M. Newton, who still doubleheaders were played in serves as chair, and legendary North Carolina coach Hartford, Cincinnati. Houston and Dean Smith. Rounding out the committee then was Denver. The four winners ad Don DeVoe, Reggie Minton, Jack Powers and Carro ll vanced to Madison Square Garden Williams. All of the original members still serve with over the Thanksgiving holiday for the exception of Coach Smith. Three additional the semifinals and championship well-known members of the college basketball com doubleheaders. munity have since been added: Rudy Davalos, Gene Keady and Les Robinson. The committee is overseen As impressive as the teams were by Greg Shaheen, President of the NIT, LLC. in the inaugural event, attendance was not. Carlesimo took a page Last year's NIT Season Tip-Off featured a format from the postseason NIT playbook enhancement. Instead of the minimum guarantee of and changed the format to what proved so successful in the two games, all teams were guaranteed four games. As in past postseason NIT- early round games at campus sites. The move years, the winners of the four regional sites played for the righted the ship, and the Preseason NIT quickly established championship in New York's Madison Square Garden. The teams itself as the standard to which other early season tournaments that lost moved on to a consolation round at three aspired. sites determined by a seeding process. No teams will play each other twice. This The four teams in the first semifinals was an impressive group: new tournament format will continue Duke, St. John's,