NIT bracket 2024: Tournament schedule, dates, times as Wake Forest, Villanova highlight No. 1 seeds

Seton Hall, Wake Forest, Indiana State, and Villanova secured No. 1 seeds for the 2024 NIT. The 32-team topic was launched Sunday with movement beginning Tuesday at campus web sites. The match will culminate in Indianapolis, Indiana, with semifinals on April 2 and the championship sport on April 4.

This may be the primary 12 months of a new-look NIT. The best two teams from the NET rankings from each of the principle six conferences (ACC, Huge 12, Huge East, Huge Ten, Pac-12, SEC) that did not qualify for the NCAA Occasion will earn the first 12 NIT computerized bids and have the very best to host first-round video video games.

Plenty of high-major purposes comparable to Oklahoma, Pitt, St. John’s, and Indiana all declined an invitation to the NIT after missing out on the NCAA Occasion. Last 12 months, preseason No. 1 North Carolina declined an invitation. 

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Historically, the event’s semifinals and remaining have been contested at Madison Sq. Yard, nonetheless the NCAA began “accepting bids from fairly a number of cities” to host the match beginning in 2023. 

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2024 NIT key dates 

First Spherical: March 19-20
Second spherical: March 23-24
Quarterfinals: March 26-27
Semifinals: April 2 (Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis)
Championship: April 4 (Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis)

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2024 NIT First Spherical schedule 

Video video games throughout the first three rounds to be carried out on the higher-seeded workforce’s residence space

Excessive Left Bracket

No. 1 Seton Hall vs. Saint Joseph’s | Wednesday, 7 p.m. 
No. 2 Princeton vs. UNLV | Wednesday, 8 p.m. 
No. 3 Windfall vs. Boston Faculty | Tuesday, 7 p.m. 
No. 4 LSU vs. North Texas | Tuesday, 7 p.m. 

Bottom Left Bracket

No. 1 Wake Forest vs. Appalachian State | Wednesday, 8 p.m. 
No. 2 Ohio State vs. Cornell | Tuesday, 7 p.m. 
No. 3 Virginia Tech vs. Richmond | Tuesday, 9 p.m. 
No. 4 Georgia vs. Xavier | Tuesday, 7 p.m. 

Larger Correct Bracket

No. 1 Indiana State vs. SMU | Wednesday, 7 p.m. 
No. 2 Cincinnati vs. San Francisco | Wednesday, 9 p.m. 
No. 3 Bradley vs. Loyola Chicago | Wednesday, 7 p.m. 
No. 4 Butler vs. Minnesota | Tuesday, 9 p.m. 

Lower Correct Bracket

No. 1 Villanova vs. VCU | Wednesday, 9 p.m. 
No. 2 Utah vs. UC Irvine | Tuesday, 11 p.m. 
No. 3 Iowa vs. Kansas State | Tuesday, 9 p.m. 
No. 4 UCF vs. USF| Wednesday, 9 p.m.