Hours after the 68 teams for the 2022 men’s NCAA tournament were revealed, the bracket for the NIT—the main consolation prize for teams that missed the Big Dance—was also announced.
This year’s event will be the first full 32-team NIT since 2019. The 2020 edition of the tournament was canceled, along with the rest of college basketball’s postseason that season. The 2021 tournament was reduced to 16 teams.
Dayton, the first team out of the NCAA tournament, is the No. 1 seed in the top left portion of the bracket, facing Toledo in the first round.