Bracket setup: Minnesota region vs. Virginia Commonwealth region
Charlotte region vs. Washington region
1
Minnesota
1
Virginia
Commonwealth
1
Charlotte
1
Washington
8
Wright
State
8
Marshall
8
North
Carolina State
8
Georgia
4
Notre
Dame
4
Cincinnati
4
Northeastern
4
Seton
Hall
5
Memphis
5
North
Carolina
5
Tulsa
5
Virginia
3
Arizona
State
3
Northwestern
3
South
Florida
3
Texas
Tech
6
William
& Mary
6
South
Carolina
6
Miami
(FLA.)
6
Arizona
2
Wichita
State
2
Connecticut
2
Mississippi
State
2
San
Diego State
7
Oklahoma
7
Portland
7
Louisiana
Tech
7
Nevada
Please note! Conference regular season champions who do not make the NCAA
tournament receive an automatic bid to the NIT. Usually, 6-8
teams will make the NIT through this rule, thus taking away 6-8 spots
from the teams above.
The next 32 teams destined for the CBI
and CIT tournaments in ABC order:
Akron, Alabama, Boston College, Colorado State, Drexel, Duquesne,
George
Washington, Harvard, Houston, Illinois State, Indiana State, Iona, Iowa
State,
IUPUI, Michigan, Missouri State, Montana, Morehead State, Nebraska, New
Mexico State, Northern Colorado, Princeton, Providence, St. Louis,
South Dakota, Southern Illinois, Southern Miss,
St. John's, Washington State, Western Carolina, Western Michigan,
Wofford
What's this all
about? Teams not qualifying for the NCAA basketball tournament have the
option of going into one of three other postseason tournaments:
The
NIT features a 32-team field chosen right after the NCAA
chooses the 65 teams in its tournament. Both the CBI and
CollegeInsider.com tournaments will feature 16 teams. While the
CBI
will compete with the NIT for teams, the CollegeInsider.com tournament
will wait until the NIT finalizes its bracket. In addition, the
CollegeInsider tournament requires teams to have a .500 record or
better while the NIT and CBI do not have such a
requirement. Also, due to the pay-to-play nature of the CBI and
CIT tournaments, colleges have been known to decline an invitation to
either tournament.
With the introduction of the Great West conference this year, the
tournament champion from this conference will be granted an automatic
berth to the CIT.
If history is any indication, in 2009, the CollegeInsider field was
limited to mid-major teams (or below) and both the CBI and CIT fields
featured teams with a RPI as high as 175. Contact: bracketproject@gmail.com