>> I only wish there were somebody with the deep pockets to make a
>"hockey
>> NIT" feasible, but I think not.  If so, this annual thread would, I
>> believe, nearly go away.
 
>Gee, then we could also have people saying "I hope my team doesn't
>make the NCAAs"?  No thanks.
 
This has come up before.  There was a hockey NIT for one year in
1974.  I have forgotten who played in it, but I know that RPI was
invited and chose not to go.  This was the year that RPI was the
#8 seed in the ECAC touney and beat #1 UNH in the first round.
 
Ralph Baer
RPI '68, '70, '74
 
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