2020 National Invitation Tournament

Annual NCAA basketball competition

2020 National Invitation TournamentSeason| 2019-20

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Teams| 32
Finals site| Madison Square Garden
New York City
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The 2020 National Invitational Tournament was to be a single-elimination tournament of 32 NCAA Division I men's college basketball teams not been selected to participate in the 2020 NCAA tournament. The tournament was to begin on March 17 and end on April 2. The first three rounds were to be played on campuses, with the semifinal and championship final played at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

On March 12, the NCAA canceled the tournament, along with all winter and spring championships for 2020 as a precaution with the coronavirus pandemic.[1]

## Participants

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### Automatic qualifiers

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The following teams were guaranteed berths into the 2020 NIT field by having the best regular season record in their conference, but failing to win their conference tournament. Some of these teams would have been eligible to receive an at-large berth into the NCAA tournament; for instance, San Diego State was likely to be an at-large NCAA team based on their record and polling ranking regardless of their loss in their conference final.

Although Merrimack won the Northeast Conference regular-season title in their first season within the NEC, they were ineligible to play in their conference tourney or in the NCAA tournament or NIT due to their transition to Division I. As a result, no team from the NEC was eligible for an auto-bid regardless of the result of the conference tournament.[2]

Team  | Conference  | Overall record  | Appearance  | Last bid

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~~Radford~~ | ~~Big South~~ | ~~21–11~~ | ~~1st~~ | ~~Never~~
~~Wright State~~ | ~~Horizon~~ | ~~25–6~~ | ~~2nd~~ | ~~2019~~
~~Northern Iowa~~ | ~~Missouri Valley~~ | ~~25–6~~ | ~~2nd~~ | ~~2012~~
~~San Diego State~~ | ~~Mountain West~~ | ~~30–2~~ | ~~7th~~ | ~~2016~~
~~Colgate~~ | ~~Patriot League~~ | ~~25–9~~ | ~~1st~~ | ~~Never~~

## Bracket

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The field of 32 teams was to be announced on March 15 on ESPNU.[3]

## Media

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ESPN, Inc. was to have exclusive television rights to all of the NIT Games, broadcast across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, and ESPN3.[4] Westwood One was to have exclusive radio rights to the semifinals and the championship.

## See also

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* 2020 Women's National Invitation Tournament

## References

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1. ^ Carlson, Chris (March 11, 2020). "NIT still scheduled to be played, but Syracuse fans wouldn't be able to attend due to coronavirus outbreak". Syracuse.com. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
2. ^ Norlander, Matt (February 27, 2020). "Why Merrimack must sit out March Madness in its historic season and is in first place in its conference". CBSSports.com. Retrieved March 6, 2020.
3. ^ Staats, Wayne (March 11, 2020). "2020 NIT selection show: Time, TV channel, date | NCAA.com". NCAA.com. Retrieved March 6, 2020.
4. ^ "NCAA, ESPN agree to TV deal through 2023-24". ESPN.com. December 15, 2011. Retrieved March 6, 2020.

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Most tournaments were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic

Conference|

| Held to completion|

* ASUN
* Big South
* CAA
* Horizon
* Missouri Valley
* Mountain West
* Northeast
* Ohio Valley
* Patriot
* Southern
* Summit
* West Coast

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Started then curtailed|

* ACC
* America East
* Atlantic 10
* Big 12
* Big East
* Big Sky
* Big Ten
* Conference USA
* MAAC
* MEAC
* Mid-American
* Pac-12
* SEC
* Southland
* Sun Belt
* SWAC

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* American
* Big West
* Ivy
* WAC

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* NCAA
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* CBI
* CIT

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