College basketball’s second-biggest postseason tournament has a bracket (matchups in full below), as the National Invitational Tournament revealed its teams and schedule for 2017. The NIT, which tips off March 14 and ends March 30, mostly picks its 32 from among the teams that didn’t makethe NCAA’s 68-team bracket.
Some teams won their regular season titles based on record, but lost in conference tournaments, which earned them automatic NIT bids. Those teams include Akron, Monmouth, Belmont, Oakland, South Dakota, and UNC Greensboro.
The format is a little different from the NCAA’s, in terms of locations. In the first three rounds, the home arenas of the teams with the higher seeds host. Once the NIT reaches the semifinals, the tournament moves to its traditional home, Madison Square Garden in New York City.
According toKenPom.com, Clemson and TCU have been the group’s best teams on the year.
2016’s winner was George Washington; St. John’s holds the all-time NIT titles record, with five (despite the Red Storm vacating their 2003 win); and, St. John’s is also first all-time in NIT appearances.
Many decades ago, the NIT was the bigger tourney, and even decided some ancient national titles, thanks partly to its association with NYC’s media exposure. By the 1970s, the NCAA had made its own tournament more and more prestigious and added a rule that required any NCAA-invited teams to either enter March Madness or skip the postseason.
Today, the NIT is the king of the consolation brackets (further down the list, there are also the CBI, CIT, and sometimes others), and its winner is popularly known as the 69th-best team in the country. Nice!
The NIT also serves as a rule experimentation zone:
NCAA tournament bracket tip sheet: Your guide to March Madness
Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY SportsPublished 12:31 a.m. ET March 13, 2017 |Updated 1 hour ago
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Now that the field has been set, USA TODAY Sports' Nicole Auerbach examines the NCAA Tournament bracket and which teams have the best shot at making it to the Final Four.USA TODAY Sports
Here's region-by-region breakdowns that dissect each team’s strengths/weaknesses, current winning/losing streak and each team’s best player or recipe for a win.
► March Sadness: The sad side of the bubble was dealt to several teams, namely last year's Final Four finisher Syracuse and mid-major darling Illinois State. Gleeson reports on thesix biggest snubbed teams. Meanwhile, the NIT did its best totroll Jim Boeheim.
► History: Northwestern punched its first-ever NCAA tournament ticket in program history. National columnist Nancy Armourwas in Evanston to cover the emotional momentsfor the Wildcats, who drew a No. 8 seed, at a Selection Sunday party.
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Northwestern and their host of famous alumni are pretty amped about making the NCAA Tourney for the first time.Time_Sports
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