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“They like the idea of having a third tournament. You have had schools on the outside looking in. Now they have this third option.”
One school that could have that option is Ohio State, whose chances for an NCAA tournament bid were left hanging after its opening-round loss to Michigan State in the Big Ten tournament.
“I haven’t even thought about it,” Buckeyes coach Thad Matta said when asked if he was interested in the CBI. “I don’t know enough about [it], to be quite honest with you. They’ve sent me e-mails. But I refused to read them because I want to go to the NCAA tournament.”
The Big Ten has no official stance on the CBI, and an e-mail request for a comment on it from the NCAA, which also owns the NIT, was not answered. But clearly this new event is a threat to the NIT, which began in 1938 and was taken over by the NCAA in 2005.
It is not inconceivable — in fact, it is very possible — that teams left out of the NCAA field will receive offers from both the NIT and CBI.

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