2015_National_Invitation_Tournament

2015 National Invitation Tournament

2015 National Invitation Tournament

Single-elimination basketball tournament

The 2015 National Invitation Tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 32 NCAA Division I teams that were not selected to participate in the 2015 NCAA tournament. The annual tournament is being played on campus sites for the first three rounds, with the Final Four and championship game being held at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The tournament began on Tuesday, March 17 and ended on Thursday, April 2. On February 6, the NCAA announced the 2015 NIT will use a 30-second shot clock (same as its WNIT counterpart) and a 4-foot (1.2 m) restricted-area arc as experimental rules for the 2015 tournament.[1] On March 4, the NCAA announced teams that are marked as the first four teams left out of the 2015 NCAA tournament field will be the top-seeded teams in the 2015 NIT.[2]

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Participants

Automatic qualifiers

The following teams earned automatic berths into the 2015 NIT field by virtue of having won their respective conference's regular season championship but failing to win their conference tournaments or receive an at-large NCAA bid.

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At-large bids

The following 20 teams were also awarded NIT berths.

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Seeds

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Schedule

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*Game times in Eastern Time. #Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket

The following teams were listed as the "First Four Out" of the NCAA tournament and received #1 seeds: Old Dominion, Richmond, Temple, Colorado State.

First round
March 17–18 		Second round
March 23 		Quarterfinals
March 25
         
1 Old Dominion 65
8 Charleston Southern 56
1 Old Dominion 50
4 Illinois State 49
4 Illinois State 69
5 Green Bay 56
1 Old Dominion 72
3 Murray State 69
2 Tulsa 70
7 William & Mary 67
2 Tulsa 62
3 Murray State 83
3 Murray State 81
6 UTEP 66
First round
March 17–18 		Second round
March 21–22 		Quarterfinals
March 24
         
1 Richmond 84
8 St. Francis Brooklyn 74
1 Richmond 76
5 Arizona State 70
4 UConn 61
5 Arizona State 68
1 Richmond 61
2 Miami (FL) 63
2 Miami (FL) 75
7 North Carolina Central 71
2 Miami (FL) 73
6 Alabama 66
3 Illinois^ 58
6 Alabama 79

#3 Illinois played at #6 Alabama due to State Farm Center renovations.

First round
March 17–18 		Second round
March 22–23 		Quarterfinals
March 25
         
1 Temple 73
8 Bucknell 67
1 Temple 90
5 George Washington 77
4 Pittsburgh 54
5 George Washington 60
1 Temple 77
3 Louisiana Tech 59
2 Texas A&M 81
7 Montana 64
2 Texas A&M 72
3 Louisiana Tech 84
3 Louisiana Tech 89
6 Central Michigan 79
First round
March 17–18 		Second round
March 20–22 		Quarterfinals
March 24
         
1 Colorado State 76
8 South Dakota State 86
8 South Dakota State 77
5 Vanderbilt 92
4 Saint Mary's 64
5 Vanderbilt 75
5 Vanderbilt 75
2 Stanford 78
2 Stanford 77
7 UC Davis 64
2 Stanford 74
3 Rhode Island 65
3 Rhode Island 88
6 Iona 75
Semifinals
March 31 		Final
April 2
      
1 Temple 57
2 Miami (FL) 60
2 Miami (FL) 64
2 Stanford 66*
2 Stanford 67
1 Old Dominion 60

* Denotes overtime period

Media

ESPN, Inc. has exclusive television rights to all NIT games. It will telecast every game across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3.[3] Since 2011, Westwood One has held exclusive radio rights to the semifinals and championship. In 2015, Dave Ryan and Kelly Tripucka called these games for Westwood One.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Experimental rules to be used during 2015 NIT include 30-second shot clock". NCAA.com. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  2. [2]
    "'First four out' of NCAA tournament to highlight NIT field of 32 as top seeds". NCAA.com. Retrieved March 4, 2015.
  3. [3]
    Humes, Mike (March 16, 2015). "Men's College Basketball: Exclusive Coverage of Every NIT Game Begins Tuesday". ESPN. Retrieved November 1, 2023.
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