The National Invitation Tournament, or NIT, has its choice present 8:30 p.m. Sunday, March 17, with 32 groups set to compete within the postseason match. First-round video games are set for March 19-20.
Here’s what you should know concerning the NIT in 2024. As soon as they’re introduced, the first-round matchups, together with sport instances and tv particulars, can be listed under.
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Performed yearly since 1938 — besides in 2020 — the NIT has been recognized for video games being performed on faculty campuses within the opening rounds as an alternative of a impartial website, with the semifinal and closing spherical at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis. After one 12 months in Las Vegas, the semifinals and closing in 2024 are scheduled for Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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The NIT selects 32 groups that do not make the NCAA Event. The primary 12 groups chosen to the NIT subject would be the remaining prime two groups within the NET rating from every of the six largest conferences: Atlantic Coast, Large East, Large Ten, Large 12, Pac-12 and Southeastern. After these 12 automated bids, the NIT committee selects the “20 greatest groups accessible” to finish the sector, in accordance with a information launch. These 20 can come from any convention. Common-season champions who don’t win their league match not earn an automated bid.
The NIT will seed 16 groups. The 12 automatic-qualifying groups can be seeded and given an opportunity to host, as will 4 of the 20 at-large groups, with “deference given” to the primary 4 groups omitted of the NCAA Event, in accordance with the NCAA. The 16 seeded groups are unfold among the many quadrants and the opponents can be positioned by geography the place doable.
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