LITTLE ROCK — A coveted invite almost assuredly out of reach of Arkansas’ basketball team and the consolation prize iffy at best, the third option for postseason play should be declined if offered.
References to the NCAA and NIT should be obvious; more obscure is a 12-year-old event called the College Basketball Invitational.
Once the media sorts through the bracket announced on Selection Sunday, dissecting the No. 1 seeds and trying to identify the 2019 version of Loyola-Chicago, talk radio hosts in the land of NIT teams will trot out the question that always elicits calls from listeners: “Preference?