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The Dolphins earned the automatic NIT bid by advancing the furthest of the four in the Atlantic Sun tournament even though Lipscomb was the #1 seed in the tournament. [ 1 ] The entire 32-team field was announced on March 14, 2010, on The NIT Selection Show at 9 pm ET on ESPNU.
The post-season National Invitation Tournament was founded in 1938 by the Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association, one year after the NAIA tournament was created by basketball's inventor Dr. James Naismith, and one year before the NCAA tournament. The first NIT was won by the Temple University Owls over the Colorado Buffaloes.
The 2010 Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) was a single-elimination tournament of 64 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I teams that did not participate in the 2010 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament. The 42nd annual tournament was played from March 17, 2010 to April 3, 2010, entirely on campus sites.
The Demon Deacons and Mountaineers will tip at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Winston-Salem. Seton Hall, Indiana State and Villanova are the remaining No. 1 seeds.
Unlike the NIT, the women's tournament is not run by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), but is an independent tournament. Triple Crown Sports, a company based in Fort Collins, Colorado that specializes in the promotion of amateur sporting events, [ 1 ] created the WNIT in 1994 as a preseason counterpart to the then-current ...
The NIT started in 1938, and for many years it was the top college basketball tournament. The NCAA’s bracket eventually drowned out the NIT, but the chance to play in the NIT’s home of Madison ...
The National Invitation Tournament, or NIT, has its selection show 8:30 p.m. Sunday, March 17, with 32 teams set to compete in the postseason tournament.First-round games are set for March 19-20 ...
The Illini finished the season 21–15, 10–8 in Big Ten play and lost in the semifinals of the 2010 Big Ten Conference men's basketball tournament. They were invited to the 2010 National Invitation Tournament where they advanced to the quarterfinals before falling to Dayton .