1997 National Invitation Tournament
The 1997 National Invitation Tournament was the 1997 edition of the annual NCAA college basketball competition. Michigan's tournament victory was later vacated due to players Robert Traylor and Louis Bullock being ruled ineligible by the NCAA. Traylor also vacated his tournament Most Valuable Player award.
Selected teams
Below is a list of the 32 teams selected for the tournament.
Brackets/Results
Below are the four first round brackets, along with the four-team championship bracket.
Semifinals & Finals
Michigan later forfeited its entire 1996-97 schedule after Robert Traylor, Maurice Taylor and Louis Bullock were found to have taken money from a Michigan booster.
References
1961 National Invitation Tournament
The 1961 National Invitation Tournament was the 1961 edition of the annual NCAA college basketball competition.
Selected teams
Below is a list of the 12 teams selected for the tournament.
Brackets/Results
Below is the tournament bracket.
References
1943 National Invitation Tournament
The 1943 National Invitation Tournament was the 1943 edition of the annual NCAA college basketball competition.
Selected teams
Below is a list of the 8 teams selected for the tournament.
Brackets/Results
Below is the tournament bracket.
References
2016 National Invitation Tournament
The 2016 National Invitational Tournament is a single-elimination tournament of 32 NCAA Division I teams that were not selected to participate in the 2016 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 will begin on Tuesday March 15 and will end on Thursday March 31.
Participants
Automatic qualifiers
The following teams earned automatic berths into the 2016 NIT field by virtue of having won their respective conference's regular season championship but failed to win their conference tournaments or receive an at-large NCAA bid.
Seeds
The first four teams left out of the NCAA tournament will be the top seeds in the four regions, done since last year's tournament.
Media
ESPN, Inc. has exclusive television rights to all NIT games. It will telecast every game across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, and ESPN3. Since 2011, Westwood One will have exclusive rights radio rights to the semifinals and championship
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