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Mike and Bri have both posted notes about preseason tournaments. I would agree with the idea that a preseason tournament would be fun (provided it gets some national exposure, e.g. the pre-season NIT or the new Great 8 tournament in hoops) to see, unless they screw us all and stick it on Prime. I would like to see more of a tournament where the sites rotate among three or four venues throughout the country (e.g. Met Center, Joe Louis, Madison Square Garden, Shawmut Center) and where the teams rotate. One from each conference would be nice to see, but like Mike has stated, the pre-season favorites would not be known until a few weeks before the season begins. I think a system where any of the top 5 teams or so from each conference could be picked to participate (such that we won't always see the same teams year after year after year) would be better to give more variety and give some of the "weaker" (no offense to any- one intended) teams more of a chance at interconference competition. This gives a "selection committee" more time to find teams and gives them enough notice that they will be participating. Whether these would be considered exhibition games or not is questionable. From my limited knowledge, it doesn't seem that preseason NIT games count against a team's maximum allowed in basketball (mainly because it's single elim., meaning nobody knows how many games they're going to play). The rules might be side- stepped by making it a 4 (or an 8) team single elimination tournament. G. M. Finniss Michigan State University WVU '87, UTenn '92, MSU who the hell knows when? one of many closet Canuck fans (or maybe that's out-in-the-open Ranger haters?) anyuway, go Vancouver....