Three Big Ten teams have opted to play in the NIT Tournament this year, with Ohio State, Iowa and Minnesota joining the 32-team field. The first round is now complete, with top seeds Seton Hall, Indiana State and Wake Forest all winning as No. 1 seeds on Wednesday. Only Villanova lost as a top seed. Here is the complete schedule for the tournament, with matchups, game times and TV information.
Updated Thursday, March 21, 4:45 a.m. ET
All three Big Ten teams in the NIT Tournament this year — Ohio State, Iowa and Minnesota — won their first-round games on Tuesday night.
Seton Hall, Indiana State, Wake Forest, the No. 1 seeds in the bracket released Sunday, all won on Wednesday night. Villanovoa was the only top seed to lose.
Ohio State beat Cornell 88-83 in Columbs, with Jamison Battle and Roddy Gayle Jr. each scoring 17 points. Iowa beat Kansas State at home, with Payton Sandfort scoring 30 points. He made seven three-pointers.
Minnesota was the only Big Ten to play on the road, and they went to Indianapolis and beat Butler 73-72. Dawson Garcia had 265 points and Elijah Hawkins had 11 points and a season-high 15 assists.
The second-round pairings are now all set, and the full schedule is below. TV information will be released later on Thursday.
The first three rounds are played on campus sites, with the semifinals and finals being played at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
For the third straight season, the NIT seeded only the top half of the 32-team field. The bottom 16 unseeded teams were placed into the bracket by the NIT Committee as close to their area of natural interest as possible.
“We’re excited about the field that we were able to put together,” said Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics and recreation at New Orleans and chair of the NIT committee. “There are going to be some great early-round matchups and it’s truly exciting to bring the history of the NIT — college basketball’s beginning – to historic Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.”
Here is the complete schedule for the tournament, with matchups, game times and TV information. We will update this file in real time throughout the tournament, which starts on Tuesday.
Tuesday's first-round results
- North Texas 84, LSU 77
- Boston College 62, Providence 57
- Georgia 78, Xavier 76
- Ohio State 88, Cornell 83
- South Florida 83, Central Florida 77
- Virginia Tech 74, Richmond 58
- Minnesota 73, Butler 72
- Iowa 91, Kansas State 82
- Utah 84, UC-Irvine 75
Wednesday's first-round results
- Seton Hall 75, Saint Joseph's 72
- Indiana State 101, SMU 92
- Bradley 74, Loyola-Chicago 62
- UNLV 84, Princeton 77
- Wake Forest 87, Applachian State 76
- Cincinnati 73, San Francisco 72
- VCU 70, Villanova 61
Saturday's second-round games
- North Texas at Seton Hall, 11:30 a.m. ET. TV: TBA. Streaming: ESPN-Plus
- Bradley at Cincinnati, 2 p.m. ET. TV: TBA. Streaming: ESPN-Plus
- Virginia Tech at Ohio State, 7 p.m. ET. TV: TBA. Streaming: ESPN-Plus
Sunday's second-round games
- Minnesota at Indiana State, 2 p.m. ET. TV: TBA. Streaming: ESPN-Plus
- Georgia at Wake Forest, 4 p.m. ET. TV: TBA. Streaming: ESPN-Plus
- VCU at South Florida, 7:30 p.m. ET. TV: TBA. Streaming: ESPN-Plus
- Iowa at Utah 9 p.m. ET. TV: TBA. Streaming: ESPN-Plus
- Boston College vs. UNLV 9:30 p.m. ET. TV: TBA. Streaming: ESPN-Plus
The quarterfinals are March 26-27. The semifinals are April 2 at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, and the finals are there too, on April 4.
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