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

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


The 32-team field for the 2024 NIT was announced Sunday with action beginning Tuesday at campus sites. Seton Hall, Wake Forest, Indiana State, and Villanova secured No. 1 seeds. The tournament will culminate in Indianapolis, Indiana, with semifinals on April 2 and the championship game on April 4.

This will be the first year of a new-look NIT. The top two teams from the NET rankings from each of the major six conferences (ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12, SEC) that did not qualify for the NCAA Tournament will earn the first 12 NIT automatic bids and have the right to host first-round games.

Multiple high-major programs such as Oklahoma, Pitt, St. John’s, and Indiana all declined an invitation to the NIT after missing out on the NCAA Tournament. Last year, preseason No. 1 North Carolina declined an invitation. 

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Historically, the event’s semifinals and final were contested at Madison Square Garden, but the NCAA began “accepting bids from numerous cities” to host the tournament beginning in 2023. 

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Here is a look at the full bracket.

2024 NIT key dates 

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

All times Eastern

2024 NIT First Round schedule 

Games in the first three rounds to be played at the higher-seeded team’s home arena

Top 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 Providence vs. Boston College | 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. 

Upper Right 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 Right 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. 





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