2018 National Invitation Tournament

Experimental rules

• Games were played in 10-minute quarters instead of 20-minute halves. The NCAA has used this timing convention for women's basketball since the 2015–16 season.
• As in NCAA women's basketball, as well as the 2017 NIT, there were no "one-and-one" foul shots. Starting with the fifth foul in each quarter, non-shooting fouls by the defense resulted in two free throws, with the exception of administrative technical fouls. The 2018 NIT, however, returned to the standard NCAA procedure of treating overtime periods as extensions of the final period of regulation for purposes of team foul accumulation.
• The three-point line changed to the current FIBA distance of from the center of the basket, except along the sidelines. Once the arc reaches a distance of from the sideline, it becomes a straight line parallel to the sideline.
• The free-throw lane was wide, the same width as in NBA and FIBA rules, instead of the in the current NCAA rules.
• The shot clock was reset to 20 seconds after an offensive rebound.

Participants

Automatic qualifiers

At-large bids

Seeds

Schedule

Bracket

Media