Whats the point of having a tournament where the 3 other schools are games we would play in pre-conference anyway? It used to feature one top opponent who was semi-guaranteed an easier first opponent, then play UTEP the next night (Purdue, Penn State, Texas, etc), and now its a meaningless tournament.
We keep it for the sake of tradition? Screw tradition, our tradition is not winning a NCAA Tournament game in 25 years, of not winning conference titles in the last decade, of having coaches quit mid-season.
I'd rather see UTEP go on the road to an Oklahoma, Arizona, UCLA, Mizzou, A&M, etc that preps the team for conference play and then have UNC-W or NJIT come to El Paso. What good does playing Howard in front of a half-filled Haskins Center really do for a team or our RPI?
We keep it for the sake of tradition? Screw tradition, our tradition is not winning a NCAA Tournament game in 25 years, of not winning conference titles in the last decade, of having coaches quit mid-season.
I'd rather see UTEP go on the road to an Oklahoma, Arizona, UCLA, Mizzou, A&M, etc that preps the team for conference play and then have UNC-W or NJIT come to El Paso. What good does playing Howard in front of a half-filled Haskins Center really do for a team or our RPI?