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March Madness is not the only big tournament that will take place in College Basketball of the men in the next few weeks.

There are two other events that affect teams on the schedule that did not crack the NCAA tournament field 2025. Before the oldest post -season tournament of College basketball, the national invitation tournament, will be before the debut of a new event, the college basketball crown.

The college basketball crown developed by Fox Sports is a single elimination tournament that is played in Las Vegas and 16 teams, including Boise State, Nebraska, USC and Villanova. The new tournament was promised at least two teams from the Big Ten, Big 12 and Big East.

The addition of the college basketball crown, together with other teams that only lose a NIT invitation, has run in this year only four schools of the Power Conference schools-Georgia Tech, Oklahoma State (with a record of 500), SMU and Stanford. The SMU Mustangs are one of the four No. 1 seeds on the field, together with Dayton, San Francisco and UC Irvine.

So what other teams are competing? And what is the schedule? Everything about the 2025 is not known here:

What does not stand in basketball for?

NIT stands for the national invitation tournament, a post-season college basketball tournament for the post-season, which debuted in 1938.

How many teams do they do?

The tournament has a field with 32 groups – less than half of the size of the NCAA tournament. According to the NCAA, only the top -16 teams on the field are sown, with the remaining squads “brought into the bracket as close as possible from the NIT committee as possible in their natural interest”.

Where are NIT games played in 2025?

There are games on campus in the first round, the second round and the quarter -finals. The semi -finals and the final are played in a neutral place.

What is the 2025 NIT clip?

Here is a look at this year's bracket about the NCAA:

How to watch Nit games in 2025 and stream

The NIT campaign is broadcast via ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN+. The games can also be streamed on ESPN.com and the ESPN app.

When does the 2025 not begin?

The first round of NIT will take place from Tuesday, March 18 to Wednesday, March 19, March 19:

March 18th

• Kent State (22-11) in No. 3 St. Bonaventure (22-11), 7 p.m.
• Jacksonville State (22-12) at No. 4 Georgia Tech (5-16), 7 p.m.
• Chattanooga (24-9) in Middle Tennessee No. 4 (22-11), 20. Et, ESPN+
• Saint Louis (19-14) in the state of Arkansas No. 3 (24-10), 9 p.m.
• Wichita State (19-14) in the state of Oklahoma (15-17), 9:00 p.m.
• UC Riverside (21-12) at No. 2 Santa Clara (20-12), 11 p.m.
• CSUN (22-10) at No. 2 Stanford (20-13), 11 p.m. ET, ESPN2

March 19th

• Florida Atlantic (18-15) at No. 1 Dayton (22-10), 7 p.m.
• Samford (22-10) at No. 2 George Mason (26-8), 7 p.m.
• UAB (22-12) at No. 3 Saint Josephs (22-12), 7 p.m. ET, ESPN+
• Furman (25-9) in No. 2 North Texas (24-8), 8pm et, ESPN+
• North Alabama (24-10) at No. 3 Bradley (26-8), 8 p.m. ET, ESPN+
• Uni (20-12) at No. 1 SMU (23-10), 9:00 p.m. ET, ESPN2
• Northern Colorado (25-9) at No. 1 UC Irvine (28-6), 10 p.m. ET, ESPN+
• Utah Valley (25-8) in No. 1 in San Francisco (24-9), 11 p.m.
• Loyola Chicago (22-11) in the state of San Jose (15-19), 11 p.m.

What is the 2025 NIT time plan?

The tournament will continue with the second round from Saturday, March 22nd to Sunday, March 23rd, followed by the quarter -finals from Tuesday, March 25th to Wednesday, March 26. The last four teams will compete on Tuesday, April 1, in the NIT semi -final.

When and where is the 2025 NIT championship game?

The semi -finals and the final are played for a second year in a row in Indianapolis in Indianapolis in Indianapolis. After the Semis on April 1, the championship game will take place on Thursday, April 3.

Who won NIT in 2024?

The Seton Hall Pirates defeated the Sycamores of Indiana State in last year's championship game for their second Nit title and for the first time since 1953.

Who did not win the first?

The Temple Owls took off the Colorado Buffaloes in Madison Square Garden in New York to win the championship of the first NIT with six teams. This year's tournament won 54 different schools at least once.

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