As we approached the NIT selection show on Sunday night, the consensus among those who try to predict the tournament’s bracket was that Washington State was squarely on the bubble — opinions were split on whether the Cougars were in the field.
By the time the bracket had been revealed, we learned that they were never on the NIT bubble, and that they not only were comfortably in the field, but that they were seeded in the top half of the field — high enough to host their first round game tonight, against Santa Clara.