Not a typo!
After the men’s and women’s NCAA Tournament Selection Sunday shows came the bracket reveal for the NIT.
Some teams, like North Carolina, opted out and declined the bid hours before the show.
Villanova decided to play on, and the ‘Cats learned their fate: unseeded among the field of 32 of the 2023 NIT.
The NIT, which only seeds the top four teams in each eight-team section of the bracket, features Villanova in a similar region with No. 1 Oregon, No. 2 Liberty, No. 3 Wisconsin, and No. 4 Flroida. UCF, UC-Irvine and Bradley are the other unseeded teams in the section.