by Matt Harrington

PALO ALTO–Those secondary tournaments in March don’t get a lot of buzz as their a lot of alumni boosters from the big schools who are clambering to go up in their gym to and it’s about marketing dollars. It all really depends on who ends up where in terms of the Pac 12 and to the big dance. They already have some teams on the bubble like UCLA or Cal to make the NCAA Tournament or not they might be on the outside.

At this point Stanford is firmly on the outside barring the end of their season. It’s going to be a question of how they want to get into this tournament to get the revenue. It will be decided at some point for the teams who won their conference for a season title and the championship team they’ll go onto the NIT automatically.

They’ll try and get into those schools and those mid major conferences where they ran the table on the regular season but knocked down on their conference tournament. Their the one and done championship tournaments and that will be about it. There should be room for a team like Stanford in the NITs when you start looking at the upsets from the smaller conferences.

They’ll be room for a team that had 19 wins and had some pretty significant wins, especially that win against Texas earlier in the year. This might give Stanford some life for a chance to play more basketball especially for these older players at the Cardinal the seniors who may have or may not have played their last game against Utah.

It makes sense for the NIT to take some Pac 12 representation, to have some sort of higher final team in the tournament and get people to watch it and get people to buy tickets for it. This might be a great chance for Stanford to get into the NIT and advance and see their star player Anthony Brown to try to put behind him probably his worst performance as a member of the Cardinal this year career putting together two points, 1-6 shooting in that 80-56 loss that knocked them out of the Pac 12 Tournament.

Matt Harrington covers Stanford Cardinal basketball and Matt is also covering for Michelle Richardson this week for NCAA commentary on http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to the podcast below