At the point of selection Sunday the choice is of course always the NCAA and at that point again obviously you've had a better season when you make the NCAA then when you only make the NIT but the season doesn't end there. We will absolutely have had a better season this year if we win the NIT than we would have if we squeaked into the tourney and lost 1st round. My answer for this season is to win the NIT. It means we had a better season than if we barely got into the tourney and lost. However I would not always rather win the NIT than get booted 1st game of NCAA and I think this year is an outlier and will be the only time during Howland's tenure I will prefer an NIT championship over a 1st round NCAA tourney loss.