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(Top) 1 Participants 1.1 Automatic qualifiers 1.2 At-large bids 1.3 Declined bids 2 Bracket 3 Game summaries 3.1 First round 3.2 Second round 3.3 Quarterfinals 3.4 Semifinals 3.5 Final 4 Media 5 See also 6 References

2024 National Invitation Tournament

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Season

2023–24

Teams

Finals site

Hinkle Fieldhouse
Indianapolis, Indiana

Champions

Seton Hall Pirates (2nd title)

Runner-up

Indiana State Sycamores (1st title game)

Semifinalists

Georgia Bulldogs (3rd semifinal)

Utah Utes (5th semifinal)

Winning coach

Shaheen Holloway (1st title)

MVP

Al-Amir Dawes (Seton Hall)

National Invitation Tournaments
«2023	2025»

The 2024 National Invitation Tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 32 NCAA Division I men's college basketball teams not selected to participate in the 2024 NCAA tournament. The tournament began on March 19 and ended on April 4. The first three rounds were played on campuses, with the semifinal and championship final played at Hinkle FieldhouseinIndianapolis, Indiana.^[1]

Participants

Teams and pairings for the 2024 NIT were released by the NIT Committee on Sunday, March 17, 2024. Thirty–two teams qualified for the NIT, including both automatic qualifiers and at-large selections. In 2023, The North Texas Mean Green won the NIT championship.

Automatic qualifiers

In a change from previous tournaments, teams which had the best regular-season record in their conference but failed to win their conference tournament no longer automatically qualified for the NIT.^[2] Instead, the top two teams (based on NET ranking) from six major conferences (ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC) not selected for the NCAA tournament received automatic bids, regardless of their win-loss records. These 12 teams also were given the opportunity to host first-round games.^[2] If a team declined an automatic bid, it was offered to the team with the next best NET ranking in the declining team's conference. Despite this new automatic qualification criterion, only one automatic qualifier from the Pac-12 accepted a 2024 NIT bid, meaning only 11 automatic bids were awarded.

Team	Conference	Overall record	Appearance	Last bid
Wake Forest	ACC	20–13	7th	2022
Virginia Tech	ACC	18–14	15th	2023
Villanova	Big East	18–15	19th	2023
Providence	Big East	21–13	21st	2019
Ohio State	Big Ten	20–13	10th	2016
Iowa	Big Ten	18–14	9th	2017
Cincinnati	Big 12	20–14	12th	2023
UCF	Big 12	17–15	4th	2023
Utah	Pac-12	19–14	15th	2018
LSU	SEC	17–15	9th	2018
Georgia	SEC	17–16	15th	2017

The NET rankings through games of March 17, 2024, of non-NCAA tournament teams from automatically qualifying conferences are listed below.^[3] Team in bold accepted a bid, teams in italics were eligible for an automatic bid, but declined.

Team	NET Rank
Atlantic Coast Conference
Pittsburgh	40
Wake Forest	43
Virginia Tech	60
Boston College	81
Syracuse	84
Florida State	96
Miami (FL)	101
Notre Dame	124
Georgia Tech	127
Louisville	216
Big East Conference
St. John's	32
Villanova	41
Providence	58
Xavier	64
Seton Hall	67
Butler	68
Georgetown	205
DePaul	320

Team	NET Rank
Big Ten Conference
Ohio State	49
Iowa	62
Maryland	82
Penn State	86
Minnesota	89
Indiana	98
Rutgers	103
Michigan	133
Big 12 Conference
Cincinnati	37
Oklahoma	46
UCF	61
Kansas State	70
Oklahoma State	123
West Virginia	156

Team	NET Rank
Pac-12 Conference
Utah	48
Washington	69
USC	88
UCLA	107
Stanford	113
California	128
Arizona State	134
Oregon State	165
Southeastern Conference
Ole Miss	90
LSU	94
Georgia	100
Arkansas	115
Missouri	158
Vanderbilt	202

At-large bids

The following teams were awarded at-large bids.

Team	Conference	Overall record	Appearance	Last bid
Appalachian State	Sun Belt	27–6	2nd	2007
Boston College	ACC	19–15	13th	2018
Bradley	Missouri Valley	22–11	23rd	2023
Butler	Big East	18–14	10th	2019
Cornell	Ivy League	22–7	1st	Never
Indiana State†	Missouri Valley	28–6	5th	2014
Kansas State	Big 12	19–14	8th	2009
Loyola Chicago	Atlantic 10	23–9	6th	2019
Minnesota	Big Ten	18–14	16th	2014
North Texas	American	18–14	3rd	2023
Princeton	Ivy League	24–4	8th	2022
Richmond	Atlantic 10	23–9	11th	2021
Saint Joseph's	Atlantic 10	21–13	17th	2013
San Francisco	West Coast	23–10	7th	2014
Seton Hall†	Big East	20–12	19th	2023
SMU	American	20–12	6th	2022
South Florida	American	24–7	9th	2010
UC Irvine	Big West	24–9	8th	2023
UNLV	Mountain West	19–12	11th	2009
VCU	Atlantic 10	22–13	7th	2022
Xavier	Big East	16–17	10th	2022

† Team was one of the first four out of the NCAA tournament and entitled to deference from the NIT Committee in determining home-court advantage for first-round games.^[2]^[4]

Declined bids

The following schools declined to play in the 2024 NIT:

Arizona State^[5]

Oklahoma^[6]

Stanford^[5]

California^[5]

Ole Miss^[7]

Syracuse^[8]

Florida State^[5]

Oregon State^[5]

UCLA^[5]

Indiana^[9]

Pittsburgh^[10]

USC^[5]

Maryland^[5]

St. Bonaventure^[5]

Washington^[11]

Memphis^[12]

St. John's^[13]

Bracket

The 32-team bracket was announced at 9:30 p.m. EDT on ESPN2.

First round March 19–20 Campus sites			Second round March 23–24 Campus sites			Quarterfinal March 27

1	Seton Hall	75^OT

	Saint Joseph's	72
			1	Seton Hall	72

				North Texas	58
4	LSU	77

	North Texas	84
						1	Seton Hall	91

							UNLV	68
2	Princeton	77

	UNLV	84
			UNLV		79

			Boston College		70
3	Providence	57

	Boston College	62

First round March 19–20 Campus sites			Second round March 23–24 Campus sites			Quarterfinal March 26

1	Wake Forest	87

	Appalachian State	76
			1	Wake Forest	66

			4	Georgia	72
4	Georgia	78

	Xavier	76
						4	Georgia	79

						2	Ohio State	77
2	Ohio State	88

	Cornell	83
			2	Ohio State	81

			3	Virginia Tech	73
3	Virginia Tech	74

	Richmond	58

First round March 19–20 Campus sites			Second round March 23–24 Campus sites			Quarterfinal March 26

1	Indiana State	101

	SMU	92
			1	Indiana State	76

				Minnesota	64
4	Butler	72

	Minnesota	73
						1	Indiana State	85

						2	Cincinnati	81
2	Cincinnati	73^OT

	San Francisco	72
			2	Cincinnati	74

			3	Bradley	57
3	Bradley	74

	Loyola Chicago	62

First round March 19–20 Campus sites			Second round March 23–24 Campus sites			Quarterfinal March 27

1	Villanova	61

	VCU	70
			VCU		70

			South Florida		65
4	UCF	77

	South Florida	83
							VCU	54

						2	Utah	74
2	Utah	84

	UC Irvine	75
			2	Utah	91

			3	Iowa	82
3	Iowa	91

	Kansas State	82

Semifinals April 2 Hinkle Fieldhouse			Final April 4 Hinkle Fieldhouse

1	Seton Hall	84

4	Georgia	67
			1	Seton Hall	79

			1	Indiana State	77
1	Indiana State	100

2	Utah	90

Game summaries

All times are in Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4)

First round

SECN

March 19
7:00 p.m.

North Texas 84, LSU 77
Scoring by half: 38–31, 46–46
Pts: Noland 21 Rebs: Scott, Sissoko 7 Asts: Jones 4		Pts: Wright 25 Rebs: Hannibal 9 Asts: Hannibal, Wright 4
North Texas advances to NIT second round

Boston College 62, Providence 57
Scoring by half: 31–30, 31–27
Pts: Harris 17 Rebs: McGlockton 9 Asts: Zackery 5		Pts: Pierre 21 Rebs: Oduro 9 Asts: Oduro 4
Boston College advances to NIT second round

Xavier 76, Georgia 78
Scoring by half: 34–46, 42–32
Pts: Claude30 Rebs: Ousmane 10 Asts: Claude 5		Pts: Demary 16 Rebs: James, Tchewa 6 Asts: Demary, Tchewa 4
Georgia advances to NIT second round

Cornell 83, Ohio State 88
Scoring by half: 38–44, 45–44
Pts: Gray 19 Rebs: Ragland 9 Asts: Okereke 6		Pts: Battle, Gayle17 Rebs: Battle 8 Asts: Battle 5
Ohio State advances to NIT second round