The 2024 National Invitation Tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 32 NCAA Division I men's college basketball teams not selected to participate in the 2024 NCAA tournament. The tournament began on March 19 and ended on April 4. The first three rounds were played on campuses, with the semifinal and championship final played at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Participants Teams and pairings for the 2024 NIT were released by the NIT Committee on Sunday, March 17, 2024. 32 teams qualified for the NIT, including both automatic qualifiers and at-large selections. In 2023, the North Texas Mean Green won the NIT championship.
Automatic qualifiers In a change from previous tournaments, teams which had the best regular-season record in their conference but failed to win their conference tournament no longer automatically qualified for the NIT. Instead, the top two teams (based on NET ranking) from six major conferences (ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC) not selected for the NCAA tournament received automatic bids, regardless of their win-loss records. These 12 teams also were given the opportunity to host first-round games. If a team declined an automatic bid, it was offered to the team with the next best NET ranking in the declining team's conference. Despite this new automatic qualification criterion, only one automatic qualifier from the Pac-12 accepted a 2024 NIT bid, meaning only 11 automatic bids were awarded.
TeamConferenceOverall recordAppearanceLast bidWake ForestACC20–137th2022Virginia TechACC18–1415th2023VillanovaBig East18–1519th2023ProvidenceBig East21–1321st2019Ohio StateBig Ten20–1310th2016IowaBig Ten18–149th2017CincinnatiBig 1220–1412th2023UCFBig 1217–154th2023UtahPac-1219–1415th2018LSUSEC17–159th2018GeorgiaSEC17–1615th2017
The NET rankings through games of March 17, 2024, of non-NCAA tournament teams from automatically qualifying conferences are listed below. Teams in bold accepted a bid, teams in italics were eligible for an automatic bid, but declined.
TeamNET RankAtlantic Coast ConferencePittsburgh40Wake Forest43Virginia Tech60Boston College81Syracuse84Florida State96Miami (FL)101Notre Dame124Georgia Tech127Louisville216Big East ConferenceSt. John's32Villanova41Providence58Xavier64Seton Hall67Butler68Georgetown205DePaul320
TeamNET RankBig Ten ConferenceOhio State49Iowa62Maryland82Penn State86Minnesota89Indiana98Rutgers103Michigan133Big 12 ConferenceCincinnati37Oklahoma46UCF61Kansas State70Oklahoma State123West Virginia156
TeamNET RankPac-12 ConferenceUtah48Washington69USC88UCLA107Stanford113California128Arizona State134Oregon State165Southeastern ConferenceOle Miss90LSU94Georgia100Arkansas115Missouri158Vanderbilt202
At-large bids The following teams were awarded at-large bids.
TeamConferenceOverall recordAppearanceLast bidAppalachian StateSun Belt27–62nd2007Boston CollegeACC19–1513th2018BradleyMissouri Valley22–1123rd2023ButlerBig East18–1410th2019CornellIvy League22–71stIndiana StateMissouri Valley28–65th2014Kansas StateBig 1219–148th2009Loyola ChicagoAtlantic 1023–96th2019MinnesotaBig Ten18–1416th2014North TexasAmerican18–143rd2023PrincetonIvy League24–48th2022RichmondAtlantic 1023–911th2021Saint Joseph'sAtlantic 1021–1317th2013San FranciscoWest Coast23–107th2014Seton HallBig East20–1219th2023SMUAmerican20–126th2022South FloridaAmerican24–79th2010UC IrvineBig West24–98th2023UNLVMountain West19–1211th2009VCUAtlantic 1022–137th2022XavierBig East16–1710th2022 Team was one of the first four out of the NCAA tournament and entitled to deference from the NIT Committee in determining home-court advantage for first-round games. Team was one of the first four out of the NCAA tournament and went on to win the 2024 NIT championship.
Declined bids The following schools declined to play in the 2024 NIT:
Arizona State Oklahoma Stanford California Ole Miss Syracuse Florida State Oregon State UCLA Indiana Pittsburgh USC Maryland St. Bonaventure Washington Memphis St. John's
Bracket The 32-team bracket was announced at 9:30 p.m. EDT on ESPN2.
Game summaries All times are in Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4)
First round
Second round
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Final
Media ESPN, Inc. has exclusive rights to all of the NIT games. It telecast every game across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3 and ESPN+. Westwood One has exclusive radio rights to the semifinals and the championship.
See also 2024 Women's National Invitation Tournament 2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament 2024 College Basketball Invitational 2024 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament
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