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      • The 2021 National Invitation Tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 16 NCAA Division I men's college basketball teams that had not been selected to participate in the 2021 NCAA tournament. The Tournament began on March 17 and ended on March 28.
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  1. Mar 25, 2021 · First round play is scheduled for Wednesday, March 17 through Saturday, March 20. Quarterfinals will be held on Thursday, March 25 in both Frisco and Denton. Semifinal games will be played...

  2. The 2021 National Invitation Tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 16 NCAA Division I men's college basketball teams that had not been selected to participate in the 2021 NCAA tournament. The Tournament began on March 17 and ended on March 28.

  3. The National Invitation Tournament (NIT) is an annual men's college basketball tournament operated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The tournament is played at regional sites with its Final Four played at Madison Square Garden (MSG) in New York City up until 2022.

  4. Mar 14, 2021 · Like the Big Dance, last year's National Invitation Tournament was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But it's back in 2021, and the full 16-team field was revealed Sunday on ESPNU.

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    • What Is The NIT?
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    The NIT in its current form is a postseason tournament consisting of teams that failed to make the NCAA Tournament yet still had good-enough seasons to warrant invitations to participate in the postseason. The NCAA took over its operation in 2005 from the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association (MIBA), the tournament's original founders...

    The NIT bracket typically includes 32 teams and five rounds. The first two rounds as well as the quarterfinals are hosted on the campus of the higher-seeded team; the semifinals and championship game are held at Madison Square Garden in New York. The NCAA on March 1 announcedthe NIT in 2021 would be reduced from its usual field of 32 teams to just ...

    The NIT doesn't have a selection process per se, though it does offer automatic bids to any team that wins its conference's regular-season title but fails to make the NCAA Tournament (a rule change implemented in 2017). Every other team is selected as an at-large bid. All selections are made after the NCAA Tournament Selection Show.

    Fifty-three teams have won the NIT, with St. John's leading all with five titles, not including the Redstorm's vacated 2003 championship. Bradley has the second-most titles in NIT history, with four. Dayton and Stanford have three titles apiece, followed by 13 teams that have two titles (among that group are Michigan and Minnesota, which would have...

  5. The 2021 National Invitation Tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 16 NCAA Division I men's college basketball teams that had not been selected to participate in the 2021 NCAA tournament. The Tournament began on March 17 and ended on March 28.

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  7. Mar 1, 2021 · The semifinals and championship will take place Saturday and Sunday, March 27 and 28. 2021 also will feature a third-place game Sunday, March 28, which hasn’t been played at the NIT since...

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