NIT Tournament 2024: Complete Schedule, Tip-Off Times, Locations, TV, Point Spreads

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Updated Wednesday, March 20, 6:45 a.m. ET

All three Big Ten teams in the NIT Tournament this year — Ohio State, Iowa and Minnesota — won their first-round games on Tuesday night.

Seton Hall, Indiana State, Villanova and Wake Forest, the No. 1 seeds in the bracket released Sunday, are in action on Wednesday night.

Ohio State beat Cornell 88-83 in Columbs, with Jamison Battle and Roddy Gayle Jr. each scoring 17 points. Iowa beat Kansas State at home, with Payton Sandfort scoring 30 points. He made seven three-pointers.

Minnesota was the only Big Ten to play on the road, and they went to Indianapolis and beat Butler 73-72. Dawson Garcia had 265 points and Elijah Hawkins had 11 points and a season-high 15 assists.

The first three rounds are played on campus sites, with the semifinals and finals being played at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.

For the third straight season, the NIT seeded only the top half of the 32-team field. The bottom 16 unseeded teams were placed into the bracket by the NIT Committee as close to their area of natural interest as possible.

“We’re excited about the field that we were able to put together,” said Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics and recreation at New Orleans and chair of the NIT committee. “There are going to be some great early-round matchups and it’s truly exciting to bring the history of the NIT — college basketball’s beginning – to historic Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.”

Here is the complete schedule for the tournament, with matchups, game times and TV information. We will update this file in real time throughout the tournament, which starts on Tuesday.

Tuesday’s first-round results 

• North Texas 84, LSU 77 
• Boston College 62, Providence 57
• Georgia 78, Xavier 76 
• Ohio State 88, Cornell 83 
• South Florida 83, Central Florida 77
• Virginia Tech 74, Richmond 58 
• Minnesota 73, Butler 72
• Iowa 91, Kansas State 82
• Utah 84, UC-Irvine 75

Wednesday’s first-round games

• Saint Joseph’s (21-13) at No. 1 Seton Hall (20-12), 7 p.m. ET. TV: ESPN2. Streaming: ESPN-Plus. 
• SMU (20-12) at No. 1 Indiana State (28-6), 7 p.m. ET. TV: None. Streaming: ESPN-Plus. 
• Loyola-Chicago (23-9) at No. 3 Bradley (22-11), 7 p.m. ET. TV: None. Streaming: ESPN-Plus.
• UNLV (19-12) at No. 2 Princeton (24-4), 8 p.m. ET. TV: None. Streaming: ESPN-Plus.
• Applachian State (27-8) at No. 1 Wake Forest (21-13), 8 p.m. ET. TV: None. Streaming: ESPN-Plus.
• San Francisco (23-10) at No. 2 Cincinnati (20-14), 9 p.m. ET. TV: None. Streaming: ESPN-Plus.
• VCU (22-13) at No. 1 Villanova (18-15), 9 p.m. TV: ESPN2. Streaming: ESPN-Plus. 

Saturday/Sunday second-round games

• Virginia Tech at Ohio State
• Iowa at Utah
• North Texas vs. Saint Joseph’s/Seton Hall winner.
• Boston College vs. Princeton/UNLV winner
• Georgia vs. Wake Forest/Appalachian State winner
• Minnesota vs. Indiana State/SMU winner
• South Florida vs. Villanova/VCU winner
• Bradley-Loyola winner vs. Cincinnati-San Francisco winner

Second-round games are Saturday and Sunday, and game dates and times will be determined after Wednesday night’s first-round games.

The quarterfinals are March 26-27. The semifinals are April 2 at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, and the finals are there too, on April 4.

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