For teams that fall just short of making the NCAA Tournament, the National Invitation Tournament (NIT ... which had initially committed to the College Basketball Invitational (CBI), later reversed ...

Here's the background of the ... Today, the NIT (National Invitation Tournament) is lesser-known, and viewed as a step down from the larger men's college basketball postseason tournament.

he received a call from Gill and Gavitt around 9:30 p.m. on Sunday with the invitation to the NIT because UC Riverside had committed to the less prestigious College Basketball Invitational before ...

Minnesota's head coach Niko Medved gestures while arriving for an NCAA college basketball news conference ... include annual ...

South Alabama Jaguars coach Richie Riley blasted the NIT after the initial invitation his team received was later revoked. South Alabama originally received an invitation to the NIT, only for that ...