Color me embarrassed or color me stupid. Either way, when news broke yesterday that Bruce Pearl might consider Auburn’s participation in the College Basketball Invitational Tournament, I have to admit I didn’t know what the CBI was. I certainly know about the once prestigious National Invitational Tournament which in recent years has been relegated to something akin to a minor bowl game for those teams not good enough to be invited to the NCAA Tourney, a.k.a. “The Big Dance.” But the CBI, what’s that?
A quick look at their web site tells us the tournament started in 2008.