Choice Sunday is not precisely a joyful affair for each males’s faculty basketball crew.
Lacking out on the NCAA Event might be gut-wrenching for a program that grinded out the four-month season solely to have their desires of the Massive Dance dashed.
Not all is misplaced for 32 groups as a result of they may have an opportunity to compete within the Nationwide Invitation Event (NIT).
Final 12 months, North Carolina turned down an invite to the NIT after lacking the NCAA Event for the primary time since 2010 — apart from the 2020 competitors, which was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The North Texas Imply Inexperienced had been completely happy to just accept a bid and ended up successful their first NIT title.
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Right here is the whole lot that you must know for the 2024 Nationwide Invitation Event:
Who’s taking part in within the 2024 NIT?
High left bracket:
- Seton Corridor (1) vs. Saint Joseph’s
- LSU (4) vs. North Texas
- Windfall (3) vs. Boston Faculty
- Princeton (2) vs. UNLV
Backside left bracket:
- Wake Forest (1) vs. Appalachian State
- Georgia (4) vs. Xavier
- Virginia Tech (3) vs. Richmond
- Ohio State (2) vs. Cornell
High proper bracket:
- Indiana State (1) vs. SMU
- Butler (4) vs. Minnesota
- Bradley (3) vs. Loyola Chicago
- Cincinnati (2) vs. San Francisco
Backside proper bracket:
- Villanova (1) vs. VCU
- UCF (4) vs. South Florida
- Iowa (3) vs. Kansas State
- Utah (2) vs. UC Irvine
Who declined an invitation to the 2024 NIT?
After being snubbed by the NCAA choice committee for the Massive Dance, a handful of groups adopted North Carolina’s instance from final season and declined an invite to the NIT.
The faculties which have declined to play within the NIT are: Indiana, Memphis, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Pittsburgh, St. John’s and Washington.
When is the NIT and championship recreation?
The primary spherical of the NIT event ideas off on Tuesday.
The competitors options two preliminary rounds earlier than the quarterfinals happen on March 26 and 27.
The NIT championship will probably be performed at 7 p.m. ET on April 4.
The place is the NIT championship?
The NIT semifinals and championship will probably be performed at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. The historic venue is the house of the Butler Bulldogs basketball groups. After it was in-built 1928, it was the biggest basketball area within the nation till 1950 and hosted many landmark occasions, together with the 1954 IHSAA championship, which impressed the film “Hoosiers.”
How you can watch the 2024 NIT event?
The NIT event will probably be broadcast on tv on ESPN and its household of channels.
The NIT championship recreation will air on TV on ESPN and be dwell streamed on ESPN+.
Is there a ladies’s NIT?
The Nationwide Invitation Event is for males’s faculty basketball.
The ladies’s equal is the Ladies’s Basketball Invitation Event (WBIT).
The event additionally options 32 groups that did not make the NCAA event.
The WBIT ideas off on Thursday with the championship at 7 p.m. ET on April 3.
The event championship will probably be held on the historic Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana, together with the boys’s title recreation.
The WBIT will probably be broadcast on ESPN’s household of channels with the championship recreation on ESPN2 and dwell streamed on ESPN+.