Last night, the entire 32 team field for the 75th annual National Invitation Tournament was announced on ESPNU. The networks of ESPN will air all of the 16 first round games that will be held Tuesday and Wednesday.
The entire bracket can be seen here.
We have the schedules for Tuesday and Wednesday plus the networks that will air the games. Announcing assignments will be released later today.
Here is the schedule.
UPDATE — 2:45 p.m.: The announcing assignments and now the entire NIT schedule has been released so let’s provide that in the press release below.
Washington, Tennessee, Seton Hall and Arizona among Teams Slated for ESPN’s Exclusive Coverage of National Invitation Tournament
Exclusive coverage of the entire 75th National Invitation Tournament begins on ESPN2, Tuesday March 13 at 7 p.m. ET, and continues across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3 with coverage of all 31 games. In addition to five exclusive ESPN3 games during the first round, the broadband network will simulcast every first round, second round, quarterfinal, semifinal and final matchup. The semifinal on ESPN2 and the championship game on ESPN will also be simulcast in ESPN3D.
The 32-team field for the oldest tournament in college basketball was announced Sunday, March 11 during the ESPNU NIT Selection Show and includes teams representing 18 conferences, led by the Atlantic 10, Pac-12 and SEC with four selections each. Five teams in the 2012 field are previous NIT Champions: Dayton (1962, 1968, 2010), Minnesota (1993, 1998), La Salle (1952), Seton Hall (1953) and Stanford (1991).
Dayton is making its 24th appearance in the NIT, the most among schools in this year’s tournament; the second highest in the tournament’s history, behind St. John’s (28). St. Joseph’s is making its 15th NIT appearance and is currently tied for the fourth most NIT appearances without winning the title.
On Wednesday, March 14 during the 7 p.m. hour, Philadelphia will be the epicenter for college hoops when La Salle, Drexel and St. Joseph’s all host NIT games at home. Drexel, making its sixth appearance in the NIT, is tied with three other schools for the most NIT games without a win.
Bucknell, UCF, Northern Iowa and Savannah State are all making their first NIT appearance.
Schedule subject to change beyond first round:
Date Time (ET) Game/Commentators
Network Tue, Mar 13 7 p.m. NIT First Round: Massachusetts at Mississippi State
Brad Nessler and Jimmy DykesESPN2 7:15 p.m. NIT First Round: Stony Brook at Seton Hall
Mike Gleason and Tim O’TooleESPN3 7:30 p.m. NIT First Round: Dayton at Iowa
Bob Wischusen and Dan DakichESPN 8 p.m. NIT First Round: Savannah State at Tennessee
Mike Crispino and Bob ValvanoESPNU 9 p.m. NIT First Round: Akron at Northwestern
Mike Patrick and Fran FraschillaESPN2 9:15 p.m. NIT First Round: Marshall at Middle Tennessee State
Adam Amin and Brooke WeisbrodESPN3 9:30 p.m. NIT First Round: LSU at Oregon
Dave Flemming and Sean FarnhamESPN 10 p.m. NIT First Round: UT Arlington at Washington
Justin Kutcher and Tim McCormickESPNU 11 p.m. NIT First Round: Cleveland State at Stanford
Roxy Bernstein and Mark AdamsESPN2 Wed, Mar 14 7 p.m. NIT First Round: Minnesota at La Salle
John Saunders and Stephen BardoESPN2 7:15 p.m. NIT First Round: UCF at Drexel
Mike Gleason and Paul BiancardiESPN3 7:15 p.m. NIT First Round: Northern Iowa at St. Joseph’s
Noah Coslov and Rob KennedyESPN3 7:30 p.m. NIT First Round: Valparaiso at Miami
Mark Jones and Tim WelshESPNU 9 p.m. NIT First Round: Bucknell at Arizona
Carter Blackburn and Miles SimonESPN2 9:15 p.m. NIT First Round: Nevada at Oral Roberts
Mitch Holthus and Doc SadlerESPN3 9:30 p.m. NIT First Round: Illinois State at Ole Miss
Clay Matvick and Joe DeanESPNU Fri, Mar 16 9:30 p.m. NIT Second Round: TBD ESPNU Sat, Mar 17 11 a.m. NIT Second Round: TBD ESPN Sun, Mar 18 11 a.m. NIT Second Round: TBD ESPN 3 p.m. NIT Second Round: TBD ESPNU 5 p.m. NIT Second Round: TBD ESPNU Mon, Mar 19 7 p.m. NIT Second Round: TBD ESPN2 9 p.m. NIT Second Round: TBD ESPN2 11 p.m. NIT Second Round: TBD ESPN2 Tue, Mar 20 7 p.m. NIT Quarterfinal: TBD ESPN2 9 p.m. NIT Quarterfinal: TBD ESPN2 Wed, Mar 21 7 p.m. NIT Quarterfinal: TBD ESPN2 9 p.m. NIT Quarterfinal: TBD ESPN2 Tue, Mar 27 7 p.m. NIT SEMIFINAL: TBD
Mike Patrick, Fran Fraschilla and Bill RafteryESPN2/ESPN3D 9:30 p.m. NIT SEMIFINAL: TBD
Mike Patrick, Fran Fraschilla and Bill RafteryESPN2/ESPN3D Thu, Mar 29 7 p.m. NIT CHAMPIONSHIP: TBD
Mike Patrick, Fran Fraschilla and Bill RafteryESPN/ESPN3D *All games will be simulcast on ESPN3;
That is it.
