2015 National Invitation Tournament


The 2015 National Invitation Tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 32 NCAA Division I teams that were not selected to participate in the 2015 NCAA Tournament. The annual tournament is being played on campus sites for the first three rounds, with the Final Four and Championship game being held at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The tournament began on Tuesday, March 17 and ended on Thursday, April 2. On February 6, the NCAA announced the 2015 NIT will use a 30-second shot clock and a 4-foot restricted-area arc as experimental rules for the 2015 tournament. On March 4, the NCAA announced teams that are marked as the first four teams left out of the 2015 NCAA tournament field will be the top-seeded teams in the 2015 NIT.

Participants

Automatic qualifiers

The following teams earned automatic berths into the 2015 NIT field by virtue of having won their respective conference's regular season championship but failed to win their conference tournaments or receive an at-large NCAA bid.
ConferenceTeamAppearanceLast bid
Big SkyMontana4th1995
Big SouthCharleston Southern2nd2013
Big WestUC Davis1st–
ColonialWilliam & Mary3rd2010
C–USALouisiana Tech9th2014
MAACIona6th2014
MEACNorth Carolina Central1st–
Mid-AmericanCentral Michigan2nd1979
NortheastSt. Francis Brooklyn4th1963
Ohio ValleyMurray State8th2011
PatriotBucknell2nd2012
SummitSouth Dakota State1st–

Seeds

Schedule

The following teams were listed as the "First Four Out" of the NCAA Tournament and received #1 seeds: Old Dominion, Richmond, Temple, Colorado State.
#3 Illinois played at #6 Alabama due to State Farm Center renovations.
* Denotes overtime period

Media

has exclusive television rights to all NIT games. It will telecast every game across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3. Since 2011, Westwood One has held exclusive radio rights to the semifinals and championship. In 2015, Dave Ryan and Kelly Tripucka will call these games for Westwood One.