No independents

In one aspect, this upcoming season will have a strange feel to it: there are no longer any Independent teams in D1 college basketball. NJIT has joined the Atlantic Sun Conference. In 2007-08, NJIT finished the season 0-29 and was one of ten independents. (Naturally, liking underdogs, that is when I became a Jersey Tech fan.) Little by little, they all found conference homes - except for NJIT. Now they finally have a home. And, probably it was their shocking win over Michigan that started the ball rolling seriously for them. Sometimes a really big win can do that for a program.