The National Invitation Tournament Board of Managers has announced new qualification procedures for the 2025 Postseason NIT.
There will not be 16 exempt teams as well as others that may qualify automatically at regular-season conference champions. Exempt teams will include the top two teams not selected to the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship from both the ACC and SEC.
Additionally former Kentucky head coach Tubby Smith and Jeff Jones have been added to the NIT Committee.
Here are more details from the NCAA:
Exempt teams will include the top two teams not selected to the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship from both the Atlantic Coast Conference and Southeastern Conference. In addition, the top team not selected to the NCAA championship from the top 12 conferences (based on the Ken Pomeroy Rating) will receive an exempt bid to the NIT. The top teams from each conference will be determined based on the average of the teams’ ESPN Basketball Power Index (BPI), Kevin Pauga Index (KPI), NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET), Ken Pomeroy Rating (KenPom), Strength of Record (SOR), Torvik ranking and Wins Above Bubble (WAB) ranking. All rankings are already included in the “Team Sheets” used by the NIT Committee during the selection process.
All teams receiving an exempt bid are guaranteed the opportunity to host a first-round game.
In addition to the exempt teams, regular-season conference champions that are not otherwise selected to the NCAA championship can earn an automatic bid to the NIT as long as that regular-season champion has an average of 125 or better across the BPI, KPI, NET, KenPom, SOR, Torvik and WAB rankings. The rest of the 32-team field will be selected as at-large teams by the NIT Committee.
