top 10 reasons why NIT is great for Utah

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- 03/28/2018 at 8:06 AM #57487
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  Longview
  Ute Fan
  
  @longview
  
  1. See what it did for Majerus’ Utes — what happened after the NIT final 4
  
  2. Time to develop players
  
  3. Builds confidence for next year
  
  4. Utes with best basketball postseason in Pac-12
  
  5. Gordon Monson is a big fat idiot
  
  6. It is fun for the players
  
  7. More basketball for us to watch
  
  8. Krisko dancing
  
  9. Krisko may have changed his end of game strategy which is a big plus
  
  10. Imagine what we would be feeling about the Utes’ season without the NIT
- 03/28/2018 at 8:18 AM #57488
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  quagmire
  Ute Fan
  
  @quagmire
  
  Number 🖐 should be at the top of the list.
- 03/28/2018 at 9:58 AM #57500
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  Italy88
  Ute Fan
  
  @itacoatiara22
  
  Love how you snuck #5 in there.
- 03/28/2018 at 5:58 PM #57529
  
  Utahute72
  Ute Fan
  
  @utahute72
  
  The problem with numbers 1-3 is that those effects are diminished because we have a senior laden team. If we were an underclass dominated team the training effect would be a lot greater.
  - 03/29/2018 at 12:03 AM #57571
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    Matthew Thomas Castleton
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    @mcastleton928
    
    Utah does have several talented returning players next season. All of Sedrick Barefield, Jayce Johnson, Parker Van Dyke, Donnie Tillman, Chris Seeley, and Kolby Caldwell are back. All of them were significant to partial contributors this season. Plus we have a stellar recruiting class coming in next year. We’re losing far less than Oregon did from their Final Four team last season. And Oregon won 23 games this season with only one returner who played at all on their Final Four team (Payton Prichard). The lifeblood of any college program is recruiting and the head coach at the top. As long as Krystowiak is still the coach, they’ll be fine. All of the above mentioned returning players will be a year older and more experienced next season. Utah will be an above average team next year. Hell, Justin Bibbins was a FIRST YEAR PLAYER this year and he is arguably Utah’s best player. I’d bet that no Utah fan even knew who Justin Bibbins was before he suited up for our Utes this season. Utah’s one of the better basketball programs in the Pac-12 right now. To say that they’re going to fall off the map just because they’re losing really good seniors in Bibbins, Collette, and Rawson (and Gabe Bealer) is an insult to the OTHER players on the team who AREN’T seniors. Hell, Sedrick Barefield was our best player against Saint Mary’s and Parker Van Dyke was arguably the savior against UCLA. Utah doesn’t win those two games without Sedrick and Parker. I almost forgot that Sedrick was HUGE @ ASU and they don’t win that game without him either. THEY’LL BE FINE.
- 03/29/2018 at 9:16 PM #57705
  
  TexanUte
  Ute Fan
  
  @texanute
  
  Regular season champ, conference champ
  
  2011-12 Washington, Colorado
  
  2012-13 UCLA, Oregon
  2013-14 Arizona, UCLA
  2014-15 Arizona, Arizona
  2015-16 Oregon, Oregon
  2016-17 Arizona/Oregon, Arizona
  2017-18 Arizona, Arizona
  
  Damn I hate Colorado. Didn’t realize until tonight they have won both a basketball conference championship (conf tournament) and a Pac 12 South in football.