Last week, buzz began to circulate that the Louisville basketball team didn’t even want to entertain the thought of playing in the NIT, and that if it came down to it, they’d just as soon not participate in the event.
Now we know that the team held onto that collective thought after they found out for certain that their season would not end in the NCAA Tournament.
Louisville basketball players voted against playing in the NIT but school administrators still accepted an invitation to play in the event, multiple sources with knowledge of the players’ decision told Courier Journal.