The grades are in for this season’s NIT brackets. I used the Paymon scoring that the Bracket Project uses to score NCAA bracket projections. The NIT ones were quite rough. Part of this is because every person had both Air Force and Arkansas in their field and the committee decided to go with other teams. [...]

Two and a half months of bracketing for this. I got 27 of 32 teams correct. All of the teams that made it were in my last 10 out, but still. It was really tough to figure out the bubble this season. The committee had a lot of different options and it decided to go [...]

The four games that are happening tomorrow don’t influence this bracket in any way, so consider this my final NIT bracket projection. It’s tough to announce something so final, but I think this is the situation we’ve come to. I wish there was a way Ohio could be in this bracket after losing the MAC [...]

Besides the inclusion of Long Beach State as an automatic bid the bottom of the bracket isn’t changing much tonight. What is changing is the top. Based on today’s set of games and a complete re-evaluation of the NCAA bubble I’ve come up with a new Last Four In and top two seed lines in [...]

NOTE: NIT Bracketology is updated daily now. You can find the latest here. What happens when every NIT team loses? The bracket becomes an absolute mess. The top two seeds in the WAC, Louisiana Tech and Denver, both fell in the quarterfinals tonight in Las Vegas. That means we’ve got another auto-bid team as the [...]

It’s that time of year again. Conference tournaments are upon us and Championship Week just messes with the NIT. For instance, on Thursday afternoon there will be eight games decided by 5:30 p.m. that involve teams either just above, in, or just below this bracket projection. What does that mean? There will be a new [...]

NOTE: You can always find the latest NIT Bracketology at the top here I wanted to give an update of the bracket heading into the weekend. What you’ll find here are some minor adjustments to the bracket that I presented last Sunday. After the final weekend of regular season play there will be an updated [...]

NOTE: NIT Bracketology is updated daily now. You can find the latest here. Championship fortnight is here! The best four weekends of the college basketball season are upon us. The next two weeks will be pressure packed with teams trying to get into the postseason and then we’ll get two excellent weekends of action.