What teams have turned down NIT bids?

i've wanted to know this as well

did florida turn a bid down?

I dont think so recently, they were on a streak of 10 NCAA tourney's I believe. Then the past 2 seasons were spent in the NIT.

i've been so busy with work and school i only took time out to fill out my ncaa bracket, haven't even looked at the NIT

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a few players from LSU said to reporters that they didn't really want to play in the NIT after a dissapointing year. They played at home and lost to Tulane.

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May have just been a few. That game was a hard sell-out at the Assembly Center. Unlike other games,student tickets went on sale a couple of days before the game. Unfortunately,I had one of those pesky little things called "test" that afternoon and they issued them all before I could get down there. Tulane popped us pretty good, 83-72.

Hard luck team that year. 14-13 overall,but almost won the SEC. Finished at 11-7,but we were 10-4 at one time and then lost a close one at home to Georgia and then there was the clock fiasco at the end of the Tennessee game. Thank goodness for Tennessee and the refs that was over Mardi Gras break weekend.

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The only teams that have ever turned down the NIT were: NC STATE, which had been the previous year's NCAA champion. Oklahoma State, Louisville, Georgia Tech, and Georgetown

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Been a lot more than that over time.

The 2007 LATECH Lady Techsters did. And they have been tumbling ever since.

DAWGY

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The only teams that have ever turned down the NIT were: NC STATE, which had been the previous year's NCAA champion. Oklahoma State, Louisville, Georgia Tech, and Georgetown

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Alabama turned down the NIT under Daviv Hobbs so he could focus on recruiting. He was fired the following season.