Teams 32 | Winning coach M. K. Turk (1st title) | |
Finals site Madison Square Garden
New York City Champions Southern Mississippi (1st title) Runner-up La Salle (2nd title game) Semifinalists Nebraska (2nd semifinal)
Arkansas-Little Rock (1st semifinal) | ||
The 1987 National Invitation Tournament was the 1987 edition of the annual NCAA college basketball competition. The tournament began on Wednesday, March 11, 1987, and ended when the Southern Miss Golden Eagles defeated the La Salle Explorers in the NIT championship game on Thursday, March 26, 1987, at Madison Square Garden.
Contents
Selected teams
Below is a list of the 32 teams selected for the tournament.
Louisville declines invitation
Louisville turned down an invitation to the 1987 NIT, the first team in history to decline an NIT bid. No team would do so again until Georgetown in 2002.
Brackets/Results
Below are the four first round brackets, along with the four-team championship bracket.
Semifinals & Finals
References
1987 National Invitation Tournament Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA