NIT bracket 2024: Event schedule, dates, occasions as Wake Forest, Villanova spotlight No. 1 seeds

Seton Corridor, Wake Forest, Indiana State, and Villanova secured No. 1 seeds for the 2024 NIT. The 32-team area was introduced Sunday with motion starting Tuesday at campus websites. The match will culminate in Indianapolis, Indiana, with semifinals on April 2 and the championship recreation on April 4.

This would be the first 12 months of a new-look NIT. The highest two groups from the NET rankings from every of the most important six conferences (ACC, Huge 12, Huge East, Huge Ten, Pac-12, SEC) that didn’t qualify for the NCAA Event will earn the primary 12 NIT computerized bids and have the precise to host first-round video games.

A number of high-major applications corresponding to Oklahoma, Pitt, St. John’s, and Indiana all declined an invite to the NIT after lacking out on the NCAA Event. Final 12 months, preseason No. 1 North Carolina declined an invite. 

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Traditionally, the occasion’s semifinals and last have been contested at Madison Sq. Backyard, however the NCAA started “accepting bids from quite a few cities” to host the match starting in 2023. 

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Here’s a take a look at the total bracket.

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 games within the first three rounds to be performed on the higher-seeded workforce’s residence area

High Left Bracket

No. 1 Seton Corridor 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. 

Backside 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. 

Higher Proper 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. 

Decrease Proper 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.