No, it’s not the big dance.
But if you haven’t heard the music in more than 10 years, you dance.
You dance in Iowa, if you have to.
You dance all the way to New York.
There is history in the National Invitation Tournament, college basketball’s NIT. There are black and white YouTubes of men smoking cigars in old Madison Square Garden, watching Dayton and CCNY play.
Walt Frazier played in the NIT. Ralph Sampson did the NIT, as did Reggie Miller and Pete Maravich.
TCU’s postseason basketball memories are so sparse, alas, it’s easy to remember them all.