Nit Bracket 2025: tournament plan, data, times as SMU, Dayton and UC Irvine Highlight No. 1 seed

SMU, Dayton, UC Irvine and San Francisco secured number 1 for NIT 2025. The 32-team field was announced on Sunday on Tuesday on Campus sites. The tournament will culminate in Indianapolis, Indiana, on April 1 and on April 3 with the semi -finals.

The NIT format will look different again this year due to the College basketball crown, a new post -season tournament, which is launched by Fox Sports. The NCAA distributed 16 offers to “exclude” the teams that met certain criteria for NIT this season.

Only four Power Conference teams do not compete: Georgia Tech, Stanford, Smu and Oklahoma State. Several programs with high major and Indiana, South Carolina and Wake Forest-Lehnten released an invitation to the NIT after missing the NCAA tournament. Last year, Oklahoma, Pitt, St. John's and Indiana were one of the teams who rejected an invitation.

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Historically, the semi -finals and the final of the event were contested in the Madison Square Garden, but the NCAA began to clear offers from numerous cities to organize the tournament from 2023.

Here is a look at the full bracket.

2025 NIT key dates

First round: March 18 to 19
Second round: March 22nd to 23rd
Quarter -finals: March 25th to March 26th
Semifinals: April 1st (Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis)
championship: April 3 (Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis)

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2025 Nit first round schedule

Games in the first three rounds to be played in the Home Arena of the higher seed

On top left bracket

No. 1 SMU against Nord -Iowa | Wednesday, 7 p.m.
No. 2 North Texas against Furman | Tuesday, 9 p.m.
No. 3 Arkansas State against Saint Louis | Tuesday, 9 p.m.
No. 4 Oklahoma State vs. Wichita State | Tuesday, 9 p.m.

Left -wing brackets below

No. 1 Dayton against Florida Atlantic | Wednesday, 7 p.m.
No. 2 George Mason against Samford | Wednesday, 7 p.m.
No. 3 Bradley against North Alabama | Wednesday 8 p.m.
No. 4 Middle Tennessee against Chattanooga | Tuesday, 8 p.m.

Upper right bracket

No. 1 UC Irvine against Nord -Colorado | Wednesday, 10 p.m.
No. 2 Santa Clara against UC Riverside | Tuesday, 11 p.m.
No. 3 Saint Josephs against UAB | Wednesday, 7 p.m.
No. 4 Georgia Tech against Jacksonville State | Tuesday, 7 p.m.

Below the right bracket

No. 1 San Francisco against Utah Valley | Wednesday, 11 p.m.
No. 2 Stanford against CSUN | Tuesday, 11 p.m.
No. 3 St. Bonaventure against Kent State | Tuesday, 7 p.m.
No. 4 San Jose State against Loyola Chicago | Wednesday 11 p.m.