Bradley will be one of several teams that won their conference's regular season, but not the conference postseason tournament, and which are not likely to receive NCAA Tournament at-large bids. That automatically qualifies them play in the NIT. Last year's NIT had 11 automatic qualifiers, including Northern Iowa of the MVC.
The announcement of the 32 teams in the 2023 NIT and the bracket will come Sunday night after the NCAA selection committee completes their selection and bracket process.
In the 2022 NIT, the winner was Xavier University. In addition to automatic qualifier Northern Iowa, Missouri State also participated as an at-large team, as did Belmont of the Ohio Valley Conference. Missouri State lost to Oklahoma in the first round, and Belmont lost to Vanderbilt in the first round. UNI lost in the second round to BYU.
2022 NIT- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_N...ion_Tournament
NIT Selection process-
https://www.ncaa.com/sites/default/f...Procedures.pdf
Bracket (no teams posted yet)-
https://www.ncaa.com/_flysystem/publ...%20Bracket.pdf
NIT main page-
https://www.ncaa.com/championships/basketball-men/nit
Originally the tournament invited a field of six teams, with all games played at Madison Square Garden in NY City.
The field was expanded to 8 teams in 1941, 12 teams in 1949, 14 in 1965, 16 in 1968, 24 in 1979, 32 in 1980, and 40 from 2002 through 2006. From 2007 to the present, the tournament went back to the current 32-team format, with a couple exceptions. In 2020, the NIT was cancelled and in 2021 the field was reduced to 16 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The NIT has played their semifinals and final in Madison Square Garden since its inception in 1938, with the exception of 2020 (cancelled due to Covid) and 2021 (All rounds were played at the Comerica Center in Frisco, Texas, or the University of North Texas Coliseum in Denton, TX. due to Covid).
History of NIT- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Invitation_Tournament
After playing in Madison Square Garden last year, the semifinals and finals were moved away from New York, and put up for bids. The 2023 NIT semifinals and final will be held the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas and hosted by UNLV, and the 2024 site would be Butler University's Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
Some Bradley trivia.... The 2023 NIT will be the 22nd NIT that Bradley has played in. Only 2 teams have played in more NIT Tournaments- Dayton 27 times, and St. John's 30 times. Bradley has 4 NIT Championships, 1957, 1960, 1964, and 1982. That is the most NIT Championships by any college except St. Johns, which has 5. Dayton and Stanford have 3 NIT Championships each.
Bradley is tied with Dayton for the second most semifinal appearances with 8 each. St. Johns has the most,15.
Bradley's last NIT bid was 2007. Their total number of NIT games Bradley played is 44, and they have a cumulative record of 26-18 (.591 winning pct.)
The 2023 NIT Selection Committee is composed of 8 member-
Wren Baker - University of West Virginia athletic director (committee chair for 2022-23)
Aaron Woliczko - West Coast Conference senior associate commissioner for men’s basketball and sport administration
Rick Byrd - former NCAA Division I men’s basketball coach (most recently at Belmont University from 1986-2019)
Tim Duncan - University of New Orleans vice president of athletics and recreation (not the Tim Duncan who played in the NBA)
Craig Littlepage - former University of Virginia director of athletics
Bob McKillop - former NCAA Division I men’s basketball coach (most recently at Davidson University from 1989-2022)
Gary Waters - former NCAA Division I men’s basketball coach (most recently at Cleveland State 2006-2017)
Bob Williams - former Division I men’s basketball coach (most recently at UC Santa Barbara 1998-2017)
The announcement of the 32 teams in the 2023 NIT and the bracket will come Sunday night after the NCAA selection committee completes their selection and bracket process.
In the 2022 NIT, the winner was Xavier University. In addition to automatic qualifier Northern Iowa, Missouri State also participated as an at-large team, as did Belmont of the Ohio Valley Conference. Missouri State lost to Oklahoma in the first round, and Belmont lost to Vanderbilt in the first round. UNI lost in the second round to BYU.
2022 NIT- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_N...ion_Tournament
NIT Selection process-
https://www.ncaa.com/sites/default/f...Procedures.pdf
Bracket (no teams posted yet)-
https://www.ncaa.com/_flysystem/publ...%20Bracket.pdf
NIT main page-
https://www.ncaa.com/championships/basketball-men/nit
Originally the tournament invited a field of six teams, with all games played at Madison Square Garden in NY City.
The field was expanded to 8 teams in 1941, 12 teams in 1949, 14 in 1965, 16 in 1968, 24 in 1979, 32 in 1980, and 40 from 2002 through 2006. From 2007 to the present, the tournament went back to the current 32-team format, with a couple exceptions. In 2020, the NIT was cancelled and in 2021 the field was reduced to 16 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The NIT has played their semifinals and final in Madison Square Garden since its inception in 1938, with the exception of 2020 (cancelled due to Covid) and 2021 (All rounds were played at the Comerica Center in Frisco, Texas, or the University of North Texas Coliseum in Denton, TX. due to Covid).
History of NIT- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Invitation_Tournament
After playing in Madison Square Garden last year, the semifinals and finals were moved away from New York, and put up for bids. The 2023 NIT semifinals and final will be held the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas and hosted by UNLV, and the 2024 site would be Butler University's Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
Some Bradley trivia.... The 2023 NIT will be the 22nd NIT that Bradley has played in. Only 2 teams have played in more NIT Tournaments- Dayton 27 times, and St. John's 30 times. Bradley has 4 NIT Championships, 1957, 1960, 1964, and 1982. That is the most NIT Championships by any college except St. Johns, which has 5. Dayton and Stanford have 3 NIT Championships each.
Bradley is tied with Dayton for the second most semifinal appearances with 8 each. St. Johns has the most,15.
Bradley's last NIT bid was 2007. Their total number of NIT games Bradley played is 44, and they have a cumulative record of 26-18 (.591 winning pct.)
The 2023 NIT Selection Committee is composed of 8 member-
Wren Baker - University of West Virginia athletic director (committee chair for 2022-23)
Aaron Woliczko - West Coast Conference senior associate commissioner for men’s basketball and sport administration
Rick Byrd - former NCAA Division I men’s basketball coach (most recently at Belmont University from 1986-2019)
Tim Duncan - University of New Orleans vice president of athletics and recreation (not the Tim Duncan who played in the NBA)
Craig Littlepage - former University of Virginia director of athletics
Bob McKillop - former NCAA Division I men’s basketball coach (most recently at Davidson University from 1989-2022)
Gary Waters - former NCAA Division I men’s basketball coach (most recently at Cleveland State 2006-2017)
Bob Williams - former Division I men’s basketball coach (most recently at UC Santa Barbara 1998-2017)
