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NIT Stu's back with two important updates and one starting five. The starting five? Summer resolutions. Hope you brought your VCR.

We have a special guest today: The best season of the year. With Memorial Day Weekend in the rearview, NIT Stu walks us through the Starting Five of Summer Days. Make sure you listen carefully. You don't want to get this wrong.

2008 NIT Champion Mark Titus joins NIT Stu to talk about something other than college basketball: The Indy 500, a race near and dear to America's heart.

Bennett Conlin, one half of JMU Sports News, joins the show to talk about the rise of James Madison athletics: How did JMU buck the conventional wisdom, growing with football—not basketball—leading the way?

This week's Starting Five is "Things Named After Presidents." There is, of course, some NIT talk towards the end.

Aaron Margelofsky joins NIT Stu to talk about the 106 college basketball games he attended this season and to draft starting fives of college basketball's best arenas.

No guest this week. The topic was too important. What was that topic? We're not sure. Five starting fives, though. Even though he says there are four, there are really five.

Sam Federman of Brackets, Bubble, and Bid Stealers joins NIT Stu to talk MAAC: Amarri Monroe's transfer decision, the excellence of MAAC nicknames, everything to know about MAACscots, and even more.

College football writer Steve Helwick of SB Nation's Hustle Belt and Underdog Dynasty joins NIT Stu to talk NBA Playoffs: Who can win it all? Who can surprise? Then, we each draft a starting five of only NIT alumni playing in this postseason.

Sorry for the late episode this week. Tuesdays are the plan. Execution is the problem.

Chattanooga's victory lap continues, as Garrison Keeslar and Bash Wieland join the show just a few days into their NIT championship reign.

The Chattanooga Mocs are NIT champions. We talk (briefly) with head coach Dan Earl, NIT Most Outstanding Player Trey Bonham, and six-time Pro Bowler (and UTC basketball alum) Terrell Owens. Then, NIT Stu highlights a few aspects of the game, and we close with thank-you's and shoutouts before a rambling discourse on the past, present, and future of postseason college basketball. Thank you for listening, and bona NIT.