It's The NIT Baby!

The Rebels got to continue the season after accepting an invitation to play in the 2007 NIT tournament. Unfortunately for the Rebels the NIT switched to a seeding format for the first time this year and then showed its ineptness. For some inexplicable reason the NIT gave one SEC Western Division Co-Champion Mississippi State a one seed. They then gave the other SEC Western Division Co-Champion a four seed. Wait you think maybe State won more games. Well actually they tied in SEC wins and the Rebels won more games overall. Okay well surely then State must have finished with a higher RPI? Wrong again Ole Miss actually has five spots on State in the RPI. State did have a slightly stronger strength of schedule but enough for the difference in a one and four seeds? When Ole Miss had more wins and a stronger RPI? This is truly appalling and egregious on behalf of the selection committee.

In the meantime the Rebels deserve credit for taking out one of the three teams that bracketologist (Not to be confused with a Breazeologist who actually study the mating habits of Norwegian Shrimp) considered to be one of the three biggest snubs of the NCAA tournament (with Syracuse and Drexel.) The Rebels lead by Todd Abernathey and Kenny Williams came out an routed the Appalachian State Miners 73-59.

The Rebels are now set to travel to South Carolina to face the south region's number one seed the Clemson Tigers on ESPN at 6:00 P.M. thanks to the shady seeding of the NIT committee. Meanwhile state plays Bradley. That's terrifying.

Since its on ESPN maybe we'll get Dick Vitale to call the game. It's the NIT Baby! Maybe he'll point out the complete flop the committee did in seeding this tournament. It's gonna be awesome!