SB Nation Arizona: All Posts by Steven Mumahttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/46593/arizona-fave.png2013-03-17T15:43:46-07:00https://arizona.sbnation.com/authors/steven-muma/rss2013-03-17T15:43:46-07:002013-03-17T15:43:46-07:00NIT field announcement soon
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<p>Potential NIT teams will learn their fates when the invitees are announced Sunday night. </p> <p>The NIT selection show will follow not long after the end of the NCAA tournament selection show on Sunday night.</p>
<p>Regular-season conference champions that lost in their league tournaments and did not receive at-large bids to the NCAAs receive automatic bids to the NIT. The rest of the 32-team field will be selected by a committee; the top seeds in the NIT are often those schools that were close to or among the last-four left out of the NCAA tournament.</p>
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<p>Last season, Stanford emerged out of the Arizona bracket to win the tournament, beating the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-basketball/teams/minnesota-golden-gophers">Minnesota Golden Gophers</a> in the championship game.</p>
<p>You can find projections for the 2013 field over at <a href="http://bracketproject.50webs.com/nit.html">The Bracket Project</a>.</p>
<p>Here's the info for tonight's show:</p>
<p><b>Time</b>: 6 p.m. MT</p>
<p><b>TV</b>: ESPNU</p>
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