CBI/CIT analysis

CBI:
George Mason (20-13) (9-9) vs. Loyola(MD) (15-16) (8-10)
Coastal Carolina (16-17) (10-8) vs. Hampton (14-16) (11-5)
UIC (15-18) (7-11) vs. Stony Brook (18-13) (12-4)
George Washington (19-14) (10-8) vs. Toledo (17-16) (9-9)
Wyoming (18-14) (8-10) vs. Eastern Washington (22-11) (13-5)
UMKC (17-16) (8-8) vs. Green Bay (18-13) (12-6)
Rice (22-11) (11-7) vs. San Francisco (20-12) (10-8)
Georgia Southern (18-14) (11-7) vs. Utah Valley (15-16) (6-8)

CIT:
Norfolk State (17-16) (12-4) @ Liberty (19-13) (14-4)
Saint Francis (16-16) (11-7) @ Jacksonville (17-15) (5-9)
Houston Baptist (17-13) (12-6) @ Campbell (17-17) (7-11)
Canisius (18-15) (10-10) @ Samford (19-15) (8-10)
Ball State (21-12) (11-7) @ Fort Wayne (19-12) (8-8)
Fairfield (16-14) (11-9) @ UMBC (18-12) (9-7)
Georgia State (20-12) (12-6) @ Texas A&M Corpus Christi (20-11) (12-6)
Stephen F. Austin (18-14) (12-6) @ Idaho (18-13) (12-6)
Saint Peter's (19-13) (14-6) @ Albany (21-13) (10-6)
Furman (21-11) (14-4) @ USC Upstate (17-15) (7-7)
UNC Asheville (23-9) (15-3) @ UT Martin (21-12) (10-6)
Lamar (19-14) (10-8) @ Texas State (20-13) (11-7)
Weber State (19-13) (12-6) @ Cal State Fullerton (17-14) (10-6)

Vegas 16:

Quick hitting thoughts on these lesser tournaments below.  I'll save individual team comments for my conference-by-conference recap.

- The CIT only got 26 teams.  Vegas went defunct.  It's getting clear there isn't room for 3 tournaments like this...and maybe not 2.  In an ideal world I'd like to see all these resources combined into a single 16, 24, or 32 team tournament.
- The CIT mostly did wind up with good teams.  There's a couple teams, namely those below .500 in conference play, who clearly don't belong, but I can't slam their inclusion when the alternative is no team.
- The CBI is the more questionable part.  Teams in bad conferences below .500 overall and in conference just don't belong in any postseason.  Unless the CBI had no choice but to invite such teams, it's ridiculous.
- Let's combine resources of all these tourneys before they all die.  Clearly, there does deserve to be SOME third tournament out there.  A world where UNC-Asheville is shut out of the postseason is a bad, bad world.  So let's reduce 3 tournaments to 1, invite 32 teams with half the bracket exclusive to mid-majors (a CIT staple), and host the final 8 teams in Vegas.  Boom.  Done.