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| Season | 2023–24 | ||||
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| Teams | 32 | ||||
| Finals site | Hinkle Fieldhouse Indianapolis, Indiana | ||||
| Champions | Seton Hall Pirates (2nd title) | ||||
| Runner-up | Indiana State Sycamores (1st title game) | ||||
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| Winning coach | Shaheen Holloway (1st title) | ||||
| MVP | Al-Amir Dawes (Seton Hall) | ||||
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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.[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 |
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| 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.
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At-large bids
The following teams were awarded at-large bids.
| Team | Conference | Overall record | Appearance | Last bid |
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| 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:
Bracket
The 32-team bracket was announced at 9:30 p.m. EDT on ESPN2.