2022 National Invitation Tournament

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2022 National Invitation Tournament
Season 202122
Teams32
Finals site Madison Square Garden
New York City
Champions Xavier Musketeers (2nd title)
Runner-up Texas A&M Aggies (1st title game)
Semifinalists
Winning coach Jonas Hayes (1st title)
MVP Colby Jones (Xavier)
Attendance3,551 (championship game)
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The 2022 National Invitation Tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 32 NCAA Division I men's college basketball teams not selected to participate in the 2022 NCAA tournament. The tournament began on March 15 and ended on March 31. The first three rounds were played on campuses, with the semi-final and championship final played at Madison Square Garden in New York City. [1]

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Participants

Teams and pairings for the 2022 NIT were released by the NIT Committee at 9 p.m. Eastern time Sunday, March 13, on ESPNU. It returned to its previous 32-team field for the first time since 2019. In 2021, Memphis won the NIT Title.

Automatic qualifiers

After the tournament's cancellation in 2020 and its reduction in 2021 because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the 2022 tournament returned to the NIT's standard format of guaranteeing berths to teams which had the best regular season record in their conference, but failed to win their conference tournament. [1]

TeamConferenceOverall recordAppearanceLast bid
Long Beach State Big West 20–129th2016
North Texas C-USA 24–61stNever
Towson CAA 25–81stNever
Cleveland State Horizon 20–106th2012
Princeton Ivy League 23–57th2016
Iona MAAC 25–77th2015
Toledo MAC 26–711th2021
Northern Iowa MVC 19–112nd2012
Nicholls Southland 21–111stNever
Alcorn State SWAC 15–153rd1985
Texas State Sun Belt 21–71stNever

At-large bids

The following teams were awarded at-large bids.

TeamConferenceOverall recordAppearanceLast bid
Belmont Ohio Valley 25–75th2017
BYU WCC 22–1015th2018
Colorado Pac-12 21–1112th2019
Dayton Atlantic 10 23–1027th2021
Florida SEC 19–1311th2016
Mississippi State SEC 18–1511th2021
Missouri State Missouri Valley 23–1010th2011
Oklahoma Big 12 18–158th2004
Oregon Pac-12 19–1412th2018
Saint Louis Atlantic 10 23–1120th2021
Santa Clara WCC 21–115th1989
SMU American 23–85th2021
St. Bonaventure Atlantic 10 20–917th2016
Texas A&M SEC 23–128th2015
Utah State Mountain West 18–1510th2008
Vanderbilt SEC 17–1613th2015
VCU Atlantic 10 21–96th2008
Virginia ACC 19–1314th2013
Wake Forest ACC 23–97th2006
Washington State Pac-12 19–146th2011
Xavier Big East 18–139th2019

Schedule

The 2022 National Invitation Tournament began on Tuesday, March 15 with the first round. First-round games were played both on Tuesday, and Wednesday, March 16. The semifinals were held on Tuesday, March 29, and the championship on Thursday, March 31. [2]

Bracket

The 32-team bracket was announced on March 13. It was released via the NIT Selection Show on ESPNU at 9 p.m. EDT on March 13.

First round
March 15–16
Campus sites
Second round
March 20
Campus sites
Quarterfinal
March 22
Campus sites
         
1 Dayton^74
Toledo 55
1 Dayton^ 68
4 Vanderbilt70OT
4 Vanderbilt 82
Belmont 71
4 Vanderbilt 73
2 Xavier75
3 Florida 79
Iona 74
3 Florida 56
2 Xavier72
2 Xavier 72
Cleveland State 68
^ Dayton's first-round game played at Toledo due to UD Arena hosting First Four 2022 NCAA tournament games.
^ Dayton's second-round game played at Vanderbilt due to UD Arena hosting OHSAA Boys Basketball State Tournament games.
First round
March 15–16
Campus sites
Second round
March 20
Campus sites
Quarterfinal
March 22
Campus sites
         
1 Oklahoma 89
Missouri State 72
1 Oklahoma 68
St. Bonaventure70
4 Colorado 68
St. Bonaventure 76
St. Bonaventure52
Virginia 51
3 Mississippi State^ 57
Virginia 60
Virginia71OT
2 North Texas 69
2 North Texas 67OT
Texas State 63

^Game played at Virginia due to construction work at Humphrey Coliseum.

First round
March 15–16
Campus sites
Second round
March 19–20
Campus sites
Quarterfinal
March 23
Campus sites
         
1 SMU 68
Nicholls 58
1 SMU 63
4 Washington State75
4 Washington State 63
Santa Clara 50
4 Washington State77
2 BYU 58
3 Saint Louis 68
Northern Iowa 80
Northern Iowa 71
2 BYU90
2 BYU 93
Long Beach State 72
First round
March 15–16
Campus sites
Second round
March 19
Campus sites
Quarterfinal
March 23
Campus sites
         
1 Texas A&M 74
Alcorn State 62
1 Texas A&M75
Oregon 60
4 Utah State 72
Oregon 83
1 Texas A&M67
2 Wake Forest 52
3 VCU 90
Princeton 79
3 VCU 74
2 Wake Forest80
2 Wake Forest 74
Towson 64
Semifinals
March 29
Madison Square Garden
Final
March 31
Madison Square Garden
      
St. Bonaventure 77
2 Xavier84
2 Xavier73
1 Texas A&M 72
4 Washington State 56
1 Texas A&M72

Media

ESPN, Inc. had exclusive television rights to all of the NIT games. It telecasted every game across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, and ESPN+. Westwood One had exclusive radio rights to the semifinals and the championship.

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