Here's the background of the NIT's field size over the years and how it went from the prestige college basketball competition to second to the Big Dance.

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 ...

Following an intense competition, the project Smart irrigation enables the leader of high-standard farmland by the Runtian Zhixing team from Guangxi Finance Vocational College won gold award ...