South Alabama's men basketball team saw their invitation to the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) abruptly rescinded on Monday. Initially, UC Riverside was invited to compete in the tournament first, but declined because of prior obligations to play in the College Basketball Invitation (CBI). With UC Riverside out, the NIT offered a spot late Sunday night for South Alabama to compete.
However, UC Riverside got out of their commitment to the CBI and will indeed compete in the NIT. That caused the NIT to rescind their invite to South Alabama, who ended up getting their hopes up for nothing and will now see their season end prematurely.
