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I agree. Eight consecutive winning seasons and so far only one Big Boy Tournament to show for it.
I'm not even asking for a FAU run (yet), but we need to get to the second weekend of the Tournament. Sweet 16, please baby Jesus. One of those two wins needs to be over some relevant-to-this-area Big XII/SEC team, not some high-seed Mountain West or Big East school. The same year we captured our first NCAA Tournament win was the same year Abilene Christian took out Texas, I believe.
Get to the Sweet 16 and then have a Gregg Marshall-like run of success - seven straight Tournament/Top 25 appearances, six straight years with at least one NCAAT win, a trip to the Final Four sprinkled in.
It may sound silly, but at this point I think a fourth straight NIT appearance does nothing to help the outsiders - unengaged alumni, conference mates, and casual college basketball fans - think higher of UNT.
I always want to see us compete in postseason basketball after so many years of it, and the NIT shouldn't always be considered a failure, but the second weekend of the NCAAT, when there are fewer teams left, fewer games and most of the nation would be watching our game... that's what we NEED right now.
If it gets fans pumped and boosts attendance numbers, I'm all for it. In fact, probably not a good look to a lot of fans if you win out the regular season and don't celebrate it.
Wichita lost to Tulsa today. This is one of those games we can't go screw around with via slow start or five-minute scoring drought. Grab a sizeable halftime lead and win by 20.
Even though Paul Mills is Benfording that storied program, they've announced 5K+ for every home game this season, including against a school called Friends. Still one of the better environments this league offers.
Memphis does not play until Thursday night, meaning we have another opportunity of being sole possessors of first place for a night if we win in Wichita Wednesday.
It'd be cool to chase down that #1 seed but personally would rather take the 2 seed and the more attendance-friendly 6 pm start for that first tournament game at Dickies. The #1 seed would have to play at 12pm on Thursday.
Also not a fan of the inevitable banner and possibly rings our social media/AD will parade around for being "conference (regular season? champions."
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