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In the past, NIT teams were selected in consultation with ESPN, the television home of the NIT. [54] The goal of the NIT was to sustain the MIBA financially. Therefore, schools selected to play in the NIT were often major conference teams with records near .500 that had large television fan bases and would likely have a respectable attendance ...
The 1949–50 CCNY team won both tournaments (defeating Bradley in both finals), and is the only college basketball team to accomplish this feat. [15] By the mid-1950s, the NCAA Tournament became the more prestigious of the two events, [ 16 ] and in 1971 the NCAA barred universities from playing in other tournaments, such as the NIT, if they ...
The 1970 National Invitation Tournament was the 1970 edition of the annual NCAA college basketball competition. It was unique in that coach Al McGuire of 8th ranked Marquette University, unhappy with his team's NCAA tournament placement in the Midwest rather than the closer Mideast regional, turned down that bid and elected to play in the NIT instead.
Southern Illinois, in their final season as a College Division team, [1] defeated Marquette, 71–56, in the championship game, becoming the only non-Division I/University Division team to win the tournament. After the NCAA began operating the NIT in 2006, non-Division I teams were no longer eligible to participate.
The last time Seton Hall basketball won the National Invitation Tournament, in 1953, a record-sized crowd of 18,500 turned out at Madison Square Garden to watch the Pirates beat St. John’s for ...
The 1950 National Invitation Tournament was the 1950 edition of the annual NCAA college basketball competition. For the only time in history, the same school won both the NIT and NCAA tournaments as CCNY took both championships, beating Bradley in both finals.
Teams: 12: Finals site: Madison Square Garden ... Champions: Bradley Braves (3rd title) Runner-up: New ... The 1964 National Invitation Tournament was the 1964 ...
Only the conference champion qualified for the NCAA tournament in 1974, leaving Purdue as 1 of 16 NIT teams. The Boilermakers beat Utah in the final. 50 years later, Purdue basketball's 1974 NIT ...