College Basketball Postseason Tournaments

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While the NCAA Tournament gets most of the attention, there are currently Division I men’s college basketball postseason tournaments that take place in March:

  • Division I NCAA Tournament
  • National Invitation Tournament (NIT)
  • College Basketball Invitational (CBI)

Teams that are left out of the NCAA Tournament generally prefer to play in the NIT. The NIT has four regions with eight teams apiece. 

The CBI is a 16-team tournament that mostly highlights mid-major teams that were not invited to participate in either of the first two tournaments. 

A fourth tournament called the CIT, or CollegeInsider.com Tournament, was played from 2009-19.

While all these tournaments could broadly be interpreted as part of the culture of March Madness, it’s only the NCAA Tournament that actually confers a true national championship.

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Chase Kiddy is a writer for BetMGM and co-host of The Lion's Edge, an NFL and college football podcast available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and everywhere else. He has also written for a number of print and online outlets, including the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Washington Post, Daily News-Record, and HERO Sports. His first novel, Cave Paintings, is in development.