2002 National Invitation Tournament

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2002 National Invitation Tournament
Season 200102
Teams40
Finals site Madison Square Garden
New York City
Champions Memphis (1st title)
Runner-up South Carolina (1st title game)
Semifinalists
Winning coach John Calipari (1st title)
MVP Dajuan Wagner (Memphis)
National Invitation Tournaments
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The 2002 National Invitation Tournament was the 2002 edition of the annual NCAA college basketball competition.

Contents

Selected teams

Below is a list of the 40 teams selected for the tournament. [1]

SchoolConferenceRecordAppearanceLast bid
Arizona State Pac-10 14–148th 2000
Ball State MAC 20–114th 1998
Bowling Green MAC 24–813th 2000
Butler Horizon 25–57th 1999
BYU Mountain West 17–119th 2000
Dayton Atlantic 10 20–1020th 2001
Detroit Horizon 18–128th 1999
Fresno State WAC 19–146th 2001
George Mason Colonial 19–92nd 1986
Georgia State A-Sun 20–101stNever
Houston C-USA 18–147th 1993
Iowa Big Ten 19–153rd 1998
Louisiana-Lafayette Sun Belt 20–104th 1985
Louisiana Tech WAC 20–95th 1992
Louisville C-USA 18–1213th 1985
LSU SEC 18–144th 1983
Manhattan MAAC 20–817th 1996
Memphis C-USA 22–915th 2001
Minnesota Big Ten 17–1210th 2001
Montana State Big Sky 19–92nd 1987
New Mexico Mountain West 16–1316th 2001
Princeton Ivy 16–115th 2000
Richmond Atlantic 10 19–136th 2001
Rutgers Big East 18–1212th 2000
Saint Joseph's Atlantic 10 18–117th 1996
South Carolina SEC 18–148th 2001
South Florida C-USA 19–127th 2000
St. Bonaventure Atlantic 10 17–1215th 2001
Syracuse Big East 20–1110th 1997
Temple Atlantic 10 15–1413th 1989
Tennessee Tech Ohio Valley 24–62nd 1985
UC Irvine Big West 21–104th 2001
UNC Greensboro Southern 20–101stNever
UNLV Mountain West 20–106th 1999
Utah State Big West 23–76th 1995
Vanderbilt SEC 16–149th 2000
Villanova Big East 17–1215th 2001
Virginia ACC 17–119th 2000
Wagner Northeast 19–92nd 1979
Yale Ivy 20–101stNever

Georgetown declines invitation

Big East Conference member Georgetown originally was among the teams selected, but declined to take part. Hoyas head coach Craig Esherick explained that Georgetown's home court, the MCI Center in Washington, D.C., was booked to host the East Regional of the 2002 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, meaning that accepting the NIT invitation would have required the Hoyas to play on the road in the West for two weeks, forcing his players to miss many of their classes. After playing a similar schedule the previous season during the 2001 NCAA tournament, Esherick had concluded that missing so many classes to play in the NIT, a tournament which did not offer a chance for a national championship, was not in the best interest of Georgetown's players. [2]

Esherick's controversial decision meant that Georgetown had no postseason play for the first time since the 1973–74 season. Georgetown became the first team to turn down an NIT bid since Louisville turned down a bid to the 1987 NIT. [3]

Bracket

Below are the four first-round brackets, along with the four-team championship bracket. [1]

Opening Round First Round Second Round Quarterfinals
            
Syracuse76
St. Bonaventure 66
Syracuse66
Butler 65
Butler81
Bowling Green 69
Syracuse62
Richmond 46
Minnesota96
New Mexico 62
Minnesota 66
Richmond67
Richmond74
Wagner 67
Richmond63
Montana State 48
Montana State77
Utah State 69
Opening Round First Round Second Round Quarterfinals
            
Ball State98
South Florida 92
Ball State75
Saint Joseph's 65
Saint Joseph's73
George Mason 64
Ball State75
LSU 65
LSU63
Iowa 61
Ball State 47
South Carolina82
UNLV96
Arizona State 91
UNLV 65
South Carolina75
South Carolina74
Virginia 67
Opening Round First Round Second Round Quarterfinals
            
Temple81
Fresno State 75
Temple65
Louisville 62
Louisville66
Princeton 65
Temple63
Villanova 57
Villanova84
Manhattan 69
Villanova67
Louisiana Tech 64
Louisiana Tech83
Louisiana–Lafayette 63
Louisiana Tech83
Vanderbilt 68
Vanderbilt59
Houston 50
Opening Round First Round Second Round Quarterfinals
            
Tennessee Tech64
Georgia State 62
Tennessee Tech68
Dayton 59
Dayton80
Detroit 69
Tennessee Tech80
Yale 61
Yale67
Rutgers 65
Tennessee Tech 73
Memphis79
BYU78
UC Irvine 55
BYU 69
Memphis80
Memphis82
UNC Greensboro 62

Semifinals & finals

Semifinals Finals
      
Syracuse 59
South Carolina66
South Carolina 62
Memphis72
Temple 77
Memphis78
Third place game
   
Syracuse 54
Temple65

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