Post-season NIT Organizers, NCAA Locked in Antitrust Dispute

Working its way to the half-court line is yet another antitrust case against the NCAA, this one alleging that the association violates antitrust laws by preventing its member basketball programs that are invited to play in the NCAA Championships from participating in the post-season National Invitational Tournament   The suit is being brought by the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association, which produces the NIT and is owned by New York University, Fordham University, Wagner Col