INDIANAPOLIS—Seton Corridor, Indiana State, Villanova and Wake Forest spotlight the 32-team Nationwide Invitation Match discipline launched by the NIT committee at present.
A brand new format for 2024 consists of two exempt groups from every of six conferences: Atlantic Coast, Massive 12, Massive East, Massive Ten, Pac-12 and SEC.
First spherical play is scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, March 19 and 20, with the second spherical enjoying March 23 and 24. Quarterfinals might be held March 26 and 27 with 4 groups advancing to historic Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis for the semifinals on Tuesday, April 2. The NIT will conclude with the championship recreation on Thursday, April 4.
First spherical motion on campus websites options primary seeds, Seton Corridor, Wake Forest, Indiana State and Villanova going through Saint Joseph’s, App State, SMU, and VCU, respectively.
Different first spherical video games embody North Texas at LSU, Boston School at Windfall, UNLV at Princeton, Xavier at Georgia, Richmond at Virginia Tech, Cornell at Ohio State, Minnesota at Butler, Loyola Chicago at Bradley, San Francisco at Cincinnati, South Florida at UCF, Kansas State at Iowa, UC Irvine at Utah.
For the third-straight season, the NIT seeded solely the highest half of the 32-team discipline. The underside 16 unseeded groups have been positioned into the bracket by the NIT Committee as near their space of pure curiosity as attainable.
Bradley is making its twenty third look within the Nationwide Invitation Match, essentially the most of any faculty within the 2023 discipline.
“We’re excited in regards to the discipline that we have been in a position to put collectively,” stated Tim Duncan, vice chairman of athletics and recreation at New Orleans and chair of the NIT committee. “There are going to be some nice early spherical matchups and it’s actually thrilling to carry the historical past of the NIT – School Basketball’s Starting – to historic Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.”
NIT video games are being televised by ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN+. Extra NIT data will be discovered on www.NCAA.com/NIT.