Brown elated to gain berth in new CBI
BY MIKE SZOSTAK
Journal Sports Writer
PROVIDENCE — Brown is going to a dance.
Not the Big Dance, the NCAA Tournament.
And not the Little Dance, the retooled NIT.
Brown is going to the new dance on the basketball block, the 16-team College Basketball Invitational, and the players are thrilled.
“They’re all really excited, as are the staff and I,” coach Craig Robinson said last night after receiving the good news. “We’re happy to keep playing. We practiced this morning, hoping we’d have another game.”
Brown finished second behind Cornell in the Ivy League, the only Division I conference that does not have a tournament to determine the recipient of the NCAA’s automatic bid.
Brown’s RPI in the 104-106 range made it a long shot for the NIT, now owned and operated by the NCAA, and Robinson and his players were not disappointed they didn’t make that cut.
“We know how the process works. We’re in the Ivy League, and our RPI and strength of schedule aren’t as strong. We’re just happy there’s another tournament now,” he said.
As of 10:30 last night, he was still waiting to learn his opponent.
This will be Brown’s fourth postseason appearance since the NCAA Tournament began in 1939 and third since the Ivy League started in 1956-57. The 1939 Bears lost to Villanova, 42-30, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, and the 1986 Ivy League champions fell to Syracuse, 101-52, in the first round of the NCAAs. The 2003 team went to the NIT and lost in the first round to Virginia, 89-73.
Tags: cbi, tournament
Monday 17 Mar 2008 | Dirk | Uncategorized
Agreed. I think I need to now unsubscribe from the DIY reddit and entertainment reddit.
I would like to be able to opt in to all subreddits except NSFW - this appears not to be an option - could it be made one please?
I do. I get my fill of politics after one or two posts, and I like to have some of the “lesser” reddits show up on my front page instead of checking them individually.
Yeah!Oh wait.Anyways, I don’t really care. I don’t get why people complain so much. It’s funny how much the internet is like a music scene in the city. Instead of a club being cool, or overrun with poseurs, it’s this site or another, and it used to be sooooooooooo cool, but now it’s lame.It’s pretty much the same content, IMO.
Well, if they don’t get any submissions, nothing will show up.
And then you’d be complaining about all of the cross-posting, and how you don’t think that that political article/pic/cartoon/taser should be on the front page, it should be confined to a subreddit
anyone can make a subreddit, that’s the horror of subreddits
Um, huh? Could you maybe explain what’s going on a bit more? I don’t get it.
It probably doesn’t need its own subreddit, unless its has a real community. Reddits aren’t tags, they are communities.And the lesser subreddits should be more-used now:since more people will be voting, articles will get more love, and make it to your front page, where you can see thempeople are more likely to post to them, since now those posts are more likely to get karmapermalinkparent7oby (3 children) [+]7oby 1 point 11 hours ago [-]i know subreddits are supposed to be “communities” but that’s a really poor way to go about it. even on usenet you could crosspost.
Not if you spend N minutes on reddit per day [1]. Then you look at the front page, click away, and you’re done. I’d say that a small minority actually click the reddits in the side-bar to go to them directly. And if you have more than five, I’d say it’s very unlikely that you go to all of them frequently, especially if you know that most of them aren’t that active.[1]: Say, whatever you can start loading before you go off to get your coffee in the morning. Given reddit’s traffic graphs, I’d say that this is a very common use-case.
Yeah. What I meant is that if you have two stories from subreddits you’re subscribed to, why should one be favoured just because it’s originally from a subreddit where not many good stories (aka stories with a lot of votes) come from?
I do, because I don’t want to the politics subreddit. But, if we used tags, and I could blog any with the politics tag, I’d be happy.
Gosh that… complicates things. At the very least you now need to add an “unsubscribe to all sub reddits” and or “unsubscribe to the reddit this submission came from” button, because I’m subscribed to lots of sub reddits and there’s no way I’m gonna go through them all to unsubscribe individually.
And the number 1 story on my front page is a picture. Unfortunately, it isn’t in the [pic] subreddit which I am NOT subscribed to.
How about adding an option in between subscribing and not subscribing to a subreddit, which would show its stories on your home page using the non-normalized hotness ranking? I could see that being useful in some situations, especially if stories end up getting hyper-categorized into subreddits.It might even be nice to make it so everyone is automatically “half-subscribed” to every subreddit by default.