It's pretty much a sure thing now...

Last year's competition for an at large bid was impressive. These teams did not receive an at large bid:

Notre Dame, Marquette, Louisville, USC,  BYU, Oklahoma St., Mississippi State, Washington, LSU, Penn St., Oregon and others.

https://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/ncaa-tournament/brackets/viewable_nit

We can delete the words "pretty much" from the title of this thread. 

same old same old

They've lost out on an NIT bid too barring an MVC Regular Season title

Posted by: SalukiWorld

They've lost out on an NIT bid too barring an MVC Regular Season title

I don’t think that is a 100% lead lock, but I would say that SIU would have to win the rest of their non conference games to get an NIT bid. From how SIU looked on Thursday, I don’t see how that happens.