Quote Originally Posted by jimsumner View Post
Actually, the Goobers across I-40 won the NIT in '71 and I'm pretty sure there is a banner.
Back in 1971 the NIT really meant something. There were more good teams in the NIT than in the one-team-per-conference NCAA tourney-- though the best teams still tended to be in the NCAA tourney. Certainly winning the NIT back then was probably harder than making the Final Four-- especially if you were in one of the easier NCAA regions, like the West (shout out to John Wooden and his empty accomplishment of winning 10 NCAA championships while the deck was stacked in his favor in many ridiculous ways).

-Jason "I find UNC's banner for the Helms awarded national title to be far more ridiculous than the pre-1975 NIT banners" Evans