Q: Last year, there was an announcement that the NIT was ending. My school, the University of Dayton, won the NIT the first year it was held and again the last year it was held, or so I thought. But then I see the NIT is being played again. What’s the deal?
—Gail Small, Duluth
A: The National Invitation Tournament, or NIT, likely would have been phased out if the NCAA tournament had expanded to 96 teams, as was discussed last year, several media outlets reported. Instead, the NCAA tournament expanded from 65 to 68 teams this year. The NCAA owns both tournaments.
Q: In the 1970s, there were plans to build a hydroelectric lake on the Chattahoochee River and near Georgia Power’s Plant Yates in Newnan. They had already done the surveys for the high water levels and began discussions with the landowners. In light of the recent discussions regarding water reservoirs, I am curious whatever became of that project.
—Gene Baxley, Marietta
A: Projects were considered, along with the West Point Lake project, as part of the development of the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee and Flint River system, E. Patrick Robbins, a U.S. Corps of Engineers spokesman in Mobile, Ala., told Q&A on the News. "When that project was authorized, we had also looked at projects known as Franklin Dam and Cedar Creek Dam upstream of West Point. The West Point project was the only one authorized as it met the benefit-to-cost ratios we are required to meet, the other two did not, so they were excluded," he wrote in an e-mail.
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