PC Goes to the NIT, Will Host BC — UPDATED
Monday, March 18, 2024
Friars fans get to see more Devin Carter.
The Providence College men’s basketball team has been selected to play in the National Invitational Tournament.
The Friars will play Boston College at home. The game will be played at 7 PM on Tuesday in Providence.
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Rich History
Providence has won the NIT twice in the past.
The Friars won in 1961 behind the wizardry of Friar guard Vin Ernst.
And the Friars won again in 1963 — Ray Flynn was the MVP of the tournament.
A year ago, in a wide-ranging interview with GoLocalProv, former Providence College men’s basketball great and Boston Mayor Ray Flynn shared his recollections of winning the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) 60 years after capturing the title in 1963.
Flynn went on to serve as Mayor of Boston from 1984 to 1993, before President Bill Clinton named him as the United States Ambassador to the Holy See [Vatican].
The Friars lost in the finals of the NIT to Bradley behind star guard and Hall of Fame Lenny Wilkens in 1960.
And, in 1975, the Friars lost the championship to Princeton in 1975.
The Big Dance Before the Big Dance
In the 1940s, when the NCAA tournament was less than 10 years old, the National Invitation Tournament, a saturnalia held in New York at Madison Square Garden by the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association, was the most glamorous of the post-season tournaments and generally had the better teams. The winner of the National Invitation Tournament was regarded as more of a national champion than the actual, titular, national champion, or winner of the NCAA tournament.
— A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
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