South Carolina Wins Back-to-Back NIT Titles

Sure it’s not the NCAA, but don’t tell South Carolina. They’re on Cloud 9 after winning their second straight NIT by beating Michigan 76-64 last night. Michigan, by the way, won the NIT two years ago.

Clearly, South Carolina deserved an NCAA bid but made the best of it. Not many experts were talking about the SEC as a strong conference, but with the NIT Champ and two left standing in the NCAA Final Four, the SEC was this year’s power conference. Don’t forget, their last loss was to Florida (favored to win the NCAA this weekend) by a mere 2 points.