You may not know or care that there is a third college basketball postseason tournament. This one is called the College Basketball Invitational Tournament or CBI for short. It has a 16 team field and is normally aired on Mark Cuban’s HDNet.
HDNet will air four of the eight first round games between Tuesday and Wednesday. The quarterfinals will be held on March 19 with the semifinals on March 21 and then a best two out of three finals that will held from March 26 through March 30. All games will be at home sites.
Here’s the schedule if you’re interested in taking a look. The CBI brackets are here.
2012 COLLEGE BASKETBALL INVITATIONAL SCHEDULE
First Round
3/13/12 — Princeton @ Evansville, Evansville, Ind., 8 pm ET — HDNet
3/13/12 — Washington State @ San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif., 10 pm ET — HDNet
3/13/12 — Milwaukee @ TCU, Fort Worth, Texas, 8 pm ET
3/14/12 — Delaware @ Butler, Indianapolis, Ind., 8 pm ET — HDNet
3/14/12 — Western Illinois @ Oregon State, Corvallis, Ore., 10 pm ET — HDNet
3/14/12 — Wofford @ Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., 7 pm ET
3/14/12 — Quinnipiac @ Penn, Philadelphia, Pa., 7:30 pm ET
3/14/12 — North Dakota State @ Wyoming, Laramie, Wyo., 9 pm ETQuarterfinals
3/19/12 — Game 1, TBD
3/19/12 — Game 2, TBD
3/19/12 — Game 3, TBD
3/19/12 — Game 4, TBDSemifinals
3/21/12 — Game 1, TBD — HDNet
3/21/12 — Game 2, TBD — HDNetChampionship Series
3/26/12 — Game 1, TBD — HDNet
3/28/12 — Game 2, TBD — HDNet
3/30/12 — Game 3 (if necessary), TBD — HDNet
That’s it.