I'll try to keep this list updated with how they are doing in their respective conference tournaments and if they won it, keeping them out of the NIT. Contrast this with the women's NIT, where every conference is guaranteed a bid (it goes to the top team in the conference standings that isn't playing in the NCAAs. NIT Automatic Bids This NIT Bracketology accounts for the reality that not every regular season conference champion will win their conference tournament. 1 seed in their conference tournament but were upset and will earn automatic bids to the NIT. Hofstra 4. In fact, it marginally detracts from them, in the sense that the regular season champ does know it's got the NIT back-up.
It starts on March 17 and ends on April 2. It awards automatic bids to regular season conference champions who do not otherwise go to the NCAA tournament. The first three rounds were played on campus sites with the higher seeded team acting as host.

**Bids that will definitely be used** 1. North Florida 2. Also, the first 4 teams out of the NCAA tournament become automatic 1 seeds in the NIT. NIT tournament is a 32 team field with automatic bids for any regular season conference champs that lose in their conference tourney and don't make the Dance. There are still a lot of chances for movement this week from all the potential automatic bids … Eligible Teams. Wagner 7. The NIT features a 32-team field chosen right after the NCAA chooses the 68 teams in its tournament. 1 seeds took automatic bids to the NIT early in Championship Fortnight, the deluge has slowed to a trickle during the past week as top seeds survived their opening rounds. For what it's worth, NYC Buckets NIT bracketologist John Templon wrote that the Jackets are not in the field as of the end of play Friday, and that's a field with only six teams taking automatic bids.

This confluence of events put Oregon into our NIT field as an automatic bid. If you would like to see how likely our model views every team to make and/or win either the NCAAT or the NIT, you can do so on our College Basketball Probabilities page.

There are 10 so far, and there could be as many as six more Saturday and Sunday.

“That’s a tricky thing, and projecting those are tough. Automatic bids for the NIT are given to any team that is the regular-season champion of its conference but fails to earn a berth in March Madness. Automatic bids are marked with a single asterisk (*). These are the teams that have an auto NIT bid, obviously some of these are going to be in the NCAA tournament. 2017 Postseason Tournament Bid Tracker Keeping track of all of the teams that have clinched either NCAA or NIT automatic bids.
It would be unprecedented. In the men's NIT, only the regular-season champion gets an automatic bid, and if they go to the NCAAs, then the bid goes away.

We list projections for all of NCAA Basketball tournament seeds as well as the NIT tournament in March. Also listed are our Last 4 In, Last 4 Out, and Next 4 Out as well as a Bracket Rating to see how close your team is to getting in a tournament. There are 10 so far, and there could be as many as six more Saturday and Sunday. Right now, I think it’ll be 11 or so. A total of 32 teams get automatic bids to the March Madness field, and those were decided this weekend. “The number of automatic bids isn’t known,” Templon said.

Here’s a look at the teams that have clinched one of the 32 automatic bids for the 2019 NCAA Tournament, along with the dates for the tournament championship games still to come.