2024 National Invitation Tournament


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 Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Participants

Teams and pairings for the 2024 NIT were released by the NIT Committee on Sunday, March 17, 2024. 32 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. Instead, the top two teams from six major conferences 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. 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.
TeamConferenceOverall recordAppearanceLast bid
Wake ForestACC20–137th2022
Virginia TechACC18–1415th2023
VillanovaBig East18–1519th2023
ProvidenceBig East21–1321st2019
Ohio StateBig Ten20–1310th2016
IowaBig Ten18–149th2017
CincinnatiBig 1220–1412th2023
UCFBig 1217–154th2023
UtahPac-1219–1415th2018
LSUSEC17–159th2018
GeorgiaSEC17–1615th2017

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

At-large bids

The following teams were awarded at-large bids.
TeamConferenceOverall recordAppearanceLast bid
Appalachian StateSun Belt27–62nd2007
Boston CollegeACC19–1513th2018
BradleyMissouri Valley22–1123rd2023
ButlerBig East18–1410th2019
CornellIvy League22–71st
Indiana StateMissouri Valley28–65th2014
Kansas StateBig 1219–148th2009
Loyola ChicagoAtlantic 1023–96th2019
MinnesotaBig Ten18–1416th2014
North TexasAmerican18–143rd2023
PrincetonIvy League24–48th2022
RichmondAtlantic 1023–911th2021
Saint Joseph'sAtlantic 1021–1317th2013
San FranciscoWest Coast23–107th2014
Seton HallBig East20–1219th2023
SMUAmerican20–126th2022
South FloridaAmerican24–79th2010
UC IrvineBig West24–98th2023
UNLVMountain West19–1211th2009
VCUAtlantic 1022–137th2022
XavierBig East16–1710th2022

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.
Team was one of the first four out of the NCAA tournament and went on to win the 2024 NIT championship.

Declined bids

The following schools declined to play in the 2024 NIT:

Bracket

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

Media

ESPN, Inc. has exclusive rights to all of the NIT games. It telecast every game across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3 and ESPN+. Westwood One has exclusive radio rights to the semifinals and the championship.