Snubbed Seton Hall, ISU among NIT’s No

Mar 18, 2024, 02:10 AM ET

Seton Hall, Wake Forest, Indiana State and Villanova, a few of the more prominent programs on the outside of the NCAA competition cutline, will be No. 1 seeds in the National Invite Competition, which starts this week.The Pirates, who ended up 20-12 but lost to St. John’s in the quarterfinals of the Big East tournament recently in New York, will host St. Joseph’s (21-13)on Wednesday.Seton Hall was one of the programs that UConn coach Dan Hurley

spoke about after his Huskies were selected as the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA competition Sunday. Hurley, a former Pirates guard, felt his university needs to have made the NCAA.”I’m probably simply a little embarrassed for the league, for such a proud league,

“Hurley said of the Big East, which ended up with 3 tournament groups, including Marquette and Creighton. “The whole thing is simply kind of a shell game. And it just really comes down to what the committee worths. “The Demon Deacons( 20-13 )also tip off Wednesday, playing host to Appalachian State (27-6)after Wake Forest completed

fifth in the ACC standings.Indiana State (28-6), among several teams that seemed in line for an NCAA at-large berth before a few of the conference competition upsets last weekend

, will host SMU (20-12) on Wednesday.And the Wildcats(18-15), a program utilized to hearing its name for the NCAA tournament on Selection Sunday during previous coach Jay Wright’s period, will play an uncommon postseason home game as well, taking on VCU(22-13 )on Wednesday.Editor’s Picks 2 Associated Among other significant storylines is the renewal of some old competitions. UCF (17-15), in its very first year in the Big 12 Conference, will host South Florida (24-7)on Wednesday

in Orlando. The Bulls and Knights utilized to meet annually in the American Athletic Conference.And Ohio State– after removing the interim head coach tag on Jake Diebler with a five-year deal that the school announced Sunday– will offer its staff a chance to keep practicing with the Buckeyes a minimum of a couple of more days. Ohio State( 20-13)will host Cornell(22-7)on Tuesday.Diebler replaced Chris Holtmann in mid-February after the seventh-year head coach was fired following a 4-10 start to Big Ten play. In his first game as interim head coach, Diebler led Ohio State to a 73-69 win over then-No. 2 Purdue. The Buckeyes went 6-2 after Diebler took control of.