2017 Exempt tournaments

[stever20]

I wonder with St John's if they may go to Puerto Rico. They're going to be missing the Gavitt games one of the next 2 years presumably so that could make sense.

[JohnW22]

Xavier is in the Puerto Rico Tip off with Arizona State, Clemson, Davidson, Missouri, Northern Iowa, Oklahoma, and Tulane.

Scratch that for some reason I was thinking 2016 tournaments

[ChelseaFriar]

Yes, as noted I have heard PC will be in the 2K Classic along with Indiana, Washington and VaTech.

[BEX]

Jon Rothstein ‏@JonRothstein 3h3 hours ago

Xavier, Arizona State, Kansas State, and George Washington will headline the 2017 Las Vegas Classic, sources told @CBSSports.

[milksteak]

The Puerto Rico Tip-Off (Xavier) is getting moved to the ESPN Wide World of Sports at Disney World due to Zika fears.

[stever20]

The Puerto Rico Tip-Off (Xavier) is getting moved to the ESPN Wide World of Sports at Disney World due to Zika fears.

So Xavier wouldn't have had anywhere near as big of a problem playing on Tuesday in the Gavitt games, and then in the tourney starting on Thursday.

[BEX]

Apparently, X is going to Maui in 2018 to play with 'Zona and the 'Zags among others.

[NJRedman]

One benefit from the split we are seeing is that only one team per conference is allowed in an exempt tournament. So for us C7 we are getting invites to tournys we never had a chance at before because of the Cuse, Pitt, Louisvilles and UConns of the previous incarnation of the Big East. I'm sure for our friends from the MVC, Horizon and A-10 the tournys that want to invite you guys have gotten better as well.

[milksteak]

One benefit from the split we are seeing is that only one team per conference is allowed in an exempt tournament. So for us C7 we are getting invites to tournys we never had a chance at before because of the Cuse, Pitt, Louisvilles and UConns of the previous incarnation of the Big East. I'm sure for our friends from the MVC, Horizon and A-10 the tournys that want to invite you guys have gotten better as well.

While in the Big East, we've played in...
2013: Old Spice Classic
2014: Battle 4 Atlantis
2015: Puerto Rico Tip-Off
2016: Las Vegas Invitational
2017: Phil Knight Invitational

Before the Big East:
2012: Maui Invitational
2011: Nothing
2010: Diamondhead Classic
2009: 76 Classic
2008: Nothing
2007: Great Alaska Shootout
2006: NIT Preseason Tip-Off
2005: Nothing

So I'd certainly say so. The Maui Invitational and the NIT Preseason Tip-Off were probably the biggest we had before the Big East. Battle 4 Atlantis was a pretty big invite and probably bigger than both -- maybe not bigger than the NIT Preseason Tip-Off. The Phil Knight Invitational will easily be our biggest tournament invite ever, but our admission was allegedly arranged while we were in the A-10.

[whiteandblue77]

One benefit from the split we are seeing is that only one team per conference is allowed in an exempt tournament. So for us C7 we are getting invites to tournys we never had a chance at before because of the Cuse, Pitt, Louisvilles and UConns of the previous incarnation of the Big East. I'm sure for our friends from the MVC, Horizon and A-10 the tournys that want to invite you guys have gotten better as well.

We headlined the Guardians Classic in 2002 with top-10 Notre Dame (and beat them), and are headlining it again next year (in KC)--
15 years after Kyle Korver and we're back to the same tournament and maybe the same situation, only now, as you aptly point out, we will be traveling the same distance to the tourney FROM what seems like a different UNIVERSE.