Season 2014–15 Champions Evansville (1st title) | Teams 32 | |
Finals site Ford Center
Evansville, IN Runner-up Northern Arizona (1st title game) Semifinalists UT Martin (1st semifinal)
NJIT (1st semifinal) | ||
The 2015 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) was a postseason single-elimination tournament of 32 NCAA Division I basketball teams. The first round started on March 16, 2015. The semifinals were played on March 31, and the championship game was on April 2, 2015. The Evansville Purple Aces beat the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks for their first CIT championship.
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Thirty-two participants who belonged to "mid-major" conferences, or were independent, and were not invited to the 2015 NCAA Tournament, National Invitation Tournament (NIT), or College Basketball Invitational (CBI) made up the field.
At the request of the NCAA Men's Basketball Rules Committee, the CIT experimented with a 30-second shot clock during the 2015 tournament.
Participating teams
In alphabetical order, the following teams received an invitation to and participated in the 2015 CIT:
Format
As in the previous year, the CIT used the former model which was traditionally used by the NIT in which teams are re-seeded and match-ups are determined based on the results of the previous round. All games were played on campus sites.
Bracket
Home teams listed second.
* Denotes overtime period.