NIT’s Knight in Shining Armor: In the midst of an uphill battle against the NCAA, the National Invitation Tournament may have found its savior in Texas Tech coach and NCAA icon Bob Knight. NIT officials have filed a case that the NCAA has created a monopoly with its NCAA Tournament, and Knight agrees. He testified that the NCAA is a monopoly and has been trying to destroy the NIT for decades. A winner of three NCAA Tournament championships and one NIT championship, Knight said he might opt to take inexperienced teams to the NIT if he could choose between that post-season tournament and the NCAA Tournament. But NCAA rules require all teams to accept invitations to its tournament. That rule is the heart of the case. To add to the intrigue of Knight becoming the patron saint of the NIT, NCAA president Myles Brand fired Knight when he was president of Indiana.
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The Seven C’s of Leadership
Former college basketball coach Mike Jarvis is back with a new book, The Seven C's of Leadership.
"Every one of us has leadership within us and this book offers fascinating principals that work in any setting—from the locker room to the executive board room. In The Seven C's of Leadership, Coach Jarvis lays out the essential ingredients of leadership."
-Jay Wright, NCAA Championship Men’s Basketball Coach, Villanova University
"At a time in America when we are witnessing an epidemic of opioid addictions and deaths, along with suicides, we need Coach Jarvis' Seven C's of Leadership – grounded in the power of Christ alone where we should all make our stand.”
-Lietenant Colonel Allen B. West (U.S. Army, Retired), Bronze Star recipient, and Member 112th U.S. Congress
"The Seven C's of Leadership is a slam dunk! Coach Jarvis has always been an outstanding leader because he has the ability to decipher what true leadership really means.”
-Dale Brown, Head Men’s Basketball Coach, LSU, 1972-1997, Member of the College Basketball Hall of Fame, and Shaquille O’Neal’s college coach