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MasterCard National Invitation Tournament
Current season or competition: 2008 National Invitation Tournament
Sport	Basketball
Founded	1938
No. of teams	32
Country(ies)	United States
Most recent champion(s)	West Virginia
Most championship(s)	5 – St. John's 4 – Bradley
TV partner(s)	ESPN
Official website	http://www.nit.org/
Related competitions	NIT Season Tip-Off NCAA Tournament
Founder	Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association

The National Invitation Tournament (NIT) is a men's college basketball tournament operated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The association plays two tournaments each season. The first is played in November and is known with its sponsorship as the Dick's Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off (formerly the Preseason NIT), and was founded in 1985. The second is a post-season tournament played in March and April. In both cases, its final rounds are played at Madison Square Garden in New York City, and the post-season event (called the MasterCard NIT as per sponsorship) was founded in 1938. In both common and official usage, "NIT" or "National Invitation Tournament" refers to the post-season tournament unless otherwise qualified. Both the pre- and post-season tournaments were operated by the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association (MIBA) up until 2005, when they were purchased by the NCAA. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... NIT or Nit or nit can refer to:- A common name for various types of lice eggs. ... Image File history File links NIT_Logo. ... This article is about the sport. ... See also: 1937 in sports, other events of 1938, 1939 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Baseball World Series: New York Yankees defeat the Chicago Cubs, 4-0. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... West Virginia University is an institution of higher learning based in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA. Other campuses include: West Virginia University at Parkersburg in Parkersburg; West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Montgomery; Potomac State College of West Virginia University in Keyser; and a clinical campus for the Universitys... St. ... Bradley University is a private, co-educational university located in Peoria, Illinois ( , , ). It is a medium sized institution with an enrollment of approximately 6,100 undergraduate and postgraduate students. ... ESPN, formerly an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ... The NIT Season Tip-Off is an annual college basketball tournament that takes place in November of each year, around the beginning of the season. ... This article is about NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championship. ... This article is about the sport. ... NCAA redirects here. ... Dicks Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS) is the largest full-line sporting goods retailer in the world. ... The NIT Season Tip-Off is an annual college basketball tournament that takes place in November of each year, around the beginning of the season. ... Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG, known colloquially simply as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City, United States. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... MasterCard Worldwide (NYSE: MA) is a multinational corporation based in Purchase, NY in the United States. ... The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition. ...

History

The post-season tournament pre-dates the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship tournament by one year. A tournament is a competition involving a relatively large number of competitors, all participating in a single sport or game. ... This article is about NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championship. ...

Originated by the Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association in 1938, responsibility for administering the NIT was transferred two years later to local colleges, first known as the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Committee and in 1948, as the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association (MIBA), which comprised representatives from the five New York City schools: Fordham University, Manhattan College, New York University, St. John's University and Wagner College. Of those five schools, only NYU (as of 2008) is not a Division I school; the Violets play in Division III. See also: 1937 in sports, other events of 1938, 1939 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Baseball World Series: New York Yankees defeat the Chicago Cubs, 4-0. ... See also: 1947 in sports, 1949 in sports and the list of years in sports. Baseball January 29: Commissioner Happy Chandler fines the Yankees, Cubs, and Phillies $500 each for signing high school players. ... Fordham University is a private, coeducational research university[3] in the United States, with three campuses located in and around New York City. ... The main entrance to Manhattan College Manhattan College is a Roman Catholic liberal arts college in the Lasallian tradition in New York City. ... New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university in New York City. ... St. ... Wagner College is a coeducational private liberal arts college located on Staten Island in New York City. ...

Originally all of the men's teams qualifying for the tournament were invited to New York City and all games were played at Madison Square Garden. Earlier rounds are now played on campus sites and only the semi-final and final rounds are held at the Garden. C. M. Newton, an NCAA consultant, former basketball coach at Alabama, former University of Kentucky athletic director and executive director of USA Basketball, who is part of the NIT selection committee, has stated that he would like to restore the quarterfinal round to the Garden were it to become feasible. The Universitätscampus Wien, Austria ( details) Campus (plural: campuses) is derived from the (identical) Latin word for field or open space. English gets the words camp and campus from this origin. ... Charles Martin (C. M.) Newton (born February 2, 1930 in Rockwood, Tennessee[1]) is a retired American basketball player, coach, and administrator. ... The University of Alabama (also known as Alabama, UA or colloquially as Bama) is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. Founded in 1831, UA is the flagship school of the University of Alabama System. ... The University of Kentucky, also referred to as UK, is a public, co-educational university located in Lexington, Kentucky. ... blah blah Modern athletic directors are often in a coaching misconduct being proven, often the athletic director will be terminated along with the offending coach. ... USA Basketball is a non-profit organization and the governing body for basketball in the United States. ...

The men's tournament originally consisted of only 6 teams, which later expanded to 8 teams in 1941, 12 teams in 1949, 14 teams in 1965, 16 teams in 1968, 24 teams in 1979, 32 teams in 1980, and 40 teams from 2002 through 2006. The tournament reverted to 32 teams for 2007.

In the tournaments' early years, the NIT often drew the nation's best collegiate basketball teams for several reasons. First, there was limited national media coverage of college basketball, therefore playing in "The Big Apple" provided tremendous media exposure for the team and players. This allowed players hoping for a shot at the NBA an opportunity to play before scouts for the largely east coast dominated league. The media exposure also allowed coaches to recruit better basketball players. NBA redirects here. ...

Second, the NCAA was originally a tournament among conference winners. Thus, the slots were filled by automatic qualifiers from little known conferences. However, many major universities such as Marquette, Notre Dame, DePaul, and Dayton did not belong to a conference. These "at large" teams were largely not allowed to participate in the NCAA. Third, many conferences such as the SEC were segregated, and allowing teams with black players to participate in the NCAA was problematic. As late as 1970, Coach Al McGuire of Marquette, the 8th-ranked team in the final AP poll of the season, spurned an NCAA bid in protest of his team's placement in the Midwest Region, where his team would have to have played games further away from home than it would if it were in the Mideast Region. The team played the NIT instead, which they won. Such an action would be a violation of NCAA rules today. One of the “traditions” Marquette hangs its hat on is the legendary McGuire one-upping the NCAA in 1970 after receiving an unfavorable regional assignment. These independent schools showcased some of the top basketball of that decade and it is certainly within the realm of possibility that the 1970 team could have won either tournament. Marquette University is a private, coeducational, Jesuit, Roman Catholic university located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the United States of America. ... For other universities and colleges named Notre Dame, see Notre Dame. ... DePaul University[1] is a private institution of higher education and research in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Founded by the Vincentians in 1898, the university takes its name from the 17th century French priest who valued philanthropy, Saint Vincent de Paul. ... The University of Dayton is a private Catholic university operated by the Society of Mary located in Dayton, Ohio. ... The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is a college athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, which operates in the southeastern part of the United States. ... See also: 1969 in sports, other events of 1970, 1971 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Auto Racing Stock car racing: Pete Hamilton won the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Bobby Isaac Indianapolis 500 - Al Unser, Sr. ... Al McGuire was the coach who led the Marquette University Mens Basketball team from 1964-1977. ... The Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency, the worlds largest such organization. ...

In 1950, City College of New York became the first and only school to win both the NIT and the NCAA tournaments in the same season. Beginning in the mid 1950s, however, the NCAA tournament became the premier college tournament. The NCAA began expanding the field to include more conferences. Additionally, the NCAA tournament began awarding "at-large" bids to prominent teams. It also adopted national seeding to better balance its field, while at the same time placing powerful teams near their campuses in the early rounds whenever possible. Finally, the NCAA, being a national organization operating over the course of several months, was able to use television as a marketing tool. Over the course of two decades, the NIT was relegated to its current status as a "consolation" tournament. “City College” redirects here. ...

NCAA Takes Control

In 2005, the NCAA purchased 10 year rights to the NIT from the MIBA for $56.5 million to settle an antitrust lawsuit, which had actually come to trial and was being argued until very shortly before the settlement was announced. The MIBA alleged that compelling teams to accept invitations to the NCAA tournament even if they preferred to play in the NIT was an illegal use of the NCAA's powers, and to testify in its behalf had subpoenaed well-known NCAA critic and then-Texas Tech coach Bob Knight. (This rule was instituted after Al McGuire's aforementioned snub in 1970.) In addition, it argued that the NCAA's expansion of its tournament to 65 teams was designed specifically to bankrupt the NIT. As part of the purchase of the NIT by the NCAA, the MIBA disbanded for the ten year duration. This article is about anti-competitive business behavior. ... Robert Montgomery (Bob or Bobby) Knight (born October 25, 1940, in Massillon, Ohio, U.S.), also known as The General, is the head mens basketball coach at Texas Tech. ...

The Stigma of the NIT

So strong is the stigma of the post-season National Invitation Tournament as a consolation fixture that when teams with tenuous hopes of an NCAA Tournament berth lose away from home late in the season, opposing fans chant "N-I-T! N-I-T!" to taunt the players in the closing seconds. This is done regardless of whether the home team is headed for the NCAA Tournament or not. Irv Moss, a journalist for the Denver Post, once wrote of such a chant to a defeated team, "The three-letter word...was far more cutting than any four-letter word they could have hollered." ^[1] A taunt is a sarcastic remark, challenge, or insult intended to provoke a response of some kind from the one it is directed at. ... The Denver Post is a daily newspaper published in Denver, Colorado. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...

Since the post-season NIT consists of teams who failed to receive a berth in the NCAA Tournament, the NIT has been humorously nicknamed the "Not Invited Tournament", "Not Important Tournament", "No one's Interested Tournament," or simply "Not In Tournament". It has also been seen as nothing more than a tournament to see who the "66th best team" in the country is (since there are now 65 teams in the NCAA Tournament). However, proponents of the NIT often point out that many of the NCAA Tournament participants would likely not win the NIT.

David Thompson, an All-American player from N.C. State, called the NIT "a loser's tournament" in 1975. N.C. State, which had been the previous year's NCAA champion, refused to play in the tournament that year, setting something of a precedent. In succeeding years, other teams such as Oklahoma State, Louisville, Georgia Tech, and Georgetown have declined to play in the NIT when they did not make the NCAA tournament. One such team was Maryland; after being rejected by the NCAA selection committee in 2006, head coach Gary Williams announced that 19-11 Maryland would not go to the NIT, only to be told that the university had previously agreed to use Comcast Center as a venue for the NIT. The Terrapins were eliminated in the first round by the Manhattan College Jaspers. In 2008, however, Williams announced that if invited, the Terps would play, because it would serve as a chance to further develop six freshman players on his squad and to give senior forward James Gist more exposure.^[2] For other teams, however, the NIT is perceived as a step up in a program climbing from mediocrity or obscurity, and the response is more enthusiastic. David ONeil Thompson (born July 13, 1954 in Shelby, North Carolina) is a former American professional basketball star with the Denver Nuggets of both the National Basketball Association (NBA) and American Basketball Association (ABA), as well as the Seattle SuperSonics. ... An All-America team is a sports team composed of star players. ... North Carolina State University is a public, coeducational, extensive research university located in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. ... Oklahoma State University Logo The Oklahoma State University System comprises of five educational instututes across Oklahoma. ... The University of Louisville (also known as U of L) is a public, state-supported university located in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. ... The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly known as Georgia Tech, is a public, coeducational research university, part of the University System of Georgia, and located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, with satellite campuses in Savannah, Georgia, Metz, France, Shanghai, China, and Singapore. ... Georgetown University is a Jesuit private university located in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Bishop John Carroll founded the school in 1789, though its roots extend back to 1634. ... The University of Maryland, College Park (also known as UM, UMD, or UMCP) is a public university located in the city of College Park, in Prince Georges County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., in the United States. ... Gary B. Williams (born March 4, 1945 in Collingswood, New Jersey, United States) is the current head coach of the University of Marylands Mens basketball team. ... This article is about the arena. ... The main entrance to Manhattan College Manhattan College is a Roman Catholic liberal arts college in the Lasallian tradition in New York City. ...

It should be noted that the NIT Season Tip-Off carries no such stigma (mainly because it serves as a pre-season tournament), and is one of many popular season-opening tournaments held every year around the country (alongside events such as the Maui Invitational and the Great Alaska Shootout). The Maui Invitational is a preseason college basketball tournament that takes place in late November of each year, usually around Thanksgiving. ... The Great Alaska Shootout are a annual college basketball tournament in Anchorage, Alaska that features colleges from all over the United States. ...

Selection Process

In the past, NIT teams were selected in consultation with ESPN, the television home of the NIT [2]. The goal of the NIT was to sustain the MIBA financially. Therefore, schools selected to play in the NIT were often major conference teams with records near .500 that had large television fan bases and would likely have a respectable attendance for tournament games on their home court. The latter is one reason why New Mexico was invited virtually every year; the Lobos had a winning season but failed to qualify for the NCAA tournament ^[3]. Seeding considerations and home court advantage included the number of fans willing to show up to each game. In an effort to maintain some quality, a rule saying that a team must have a .500 record to qualify for the NIT was imposed. This prevented ESPN from suggesting major conference teams that finished at or very near the bottom of their conference standings but would likely garner good fan interest. ESPN, formerly an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ... The University of New Mexico (UNM) is a public university in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ...

The NCAA announced a revamped selection process starting with the 2006 tournament. The main highlights are:

• Teams are no longer required to have .500 or greater records to receive bids. This may have an effect on the last few teams invited. However, in 2006, all teams qualifying for the NIT had a record greater than .500.
• Similar to the automatic bids the NCAA Tournament grants for all conference tournament champions, all teams that won regular-season conference championships but failed to earn NCAA tournament bids are guaranteed places in the NIT. Thus, more teams from the low-major conferences may qualify. (Mid-major regular season conference champions have traditionally been invited.)

In addition, the selection process has been made transparent. ESPN no longer had a hand in the selection of the teams. Instead, a committee of former NCAA head coaches, chaired by Newton, and including Gene Keady (Purdue), Dean Smith (North Carolina), Don DeVoe (Tennessee), Eddie Fogler (Wichita State), Reggie Minton (Air Force), John Powers and Carroll Williams among others, prepared a list of potential teams in advance. The seeding and balancing process is similar to that of the NCAA tournament, with the exception that higher seeded teams will always host games, unless extenuating circumstances occur. In the past, higher seeded mid-major teams would often be forced to travel to play less highly regarded major conference teams that would be likely to sell more tickets to the game ^[4]. Mid Major is a term mainly used in American college basketball and to a lesser extent college football to describe schools not affiliated with a BCS or other major conference. ... Gene Keady (born May 21, 1936, in Larned, Kansas, United States) is an assistant coach of the Toronto Raptors of the NBA. He is most notable for being the head basketball coach at Purdue University for 25 years, from 1980-2005. ... The Purdue Boilermakers basketball team is a college basketball program that competes in NCAA Division I and the Big Ten Conference. ... Dean Edwards Smith (born February 28, 1931) is a retired head coach of men’s college basketball. ... NCAA Tournament Champions 1957, 1982, 1993, 2005 NCAA Tournament Final Four 1946, 1957, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2005 Conference Tournament Champions 1957, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2007 Conference Regular Season Champions... Don DeVoe was a college basketball coach at Florida, Navy, Tennessee, Virginia Tech, and Wyoming. ... Eddie Fogler was a college basketball coach at Wichita State University, Vanderbilt, and South Carolina. ... Wichita State University (WSU) is an American state-supported university located in the middle-size city of Wichita, Kansas, in the south central part of the state. ... William Reginald Reggie Minton is the deputy executive director of the National Association of Basketball Coaches. ...

ESPN continues to provide television coverage of the tournament. The NIT has a 10-year, $24.1 million contract with ESPN; this compares with the 11-year, $6.2 billion TV contract with CBS for the NCAA tournament.

These changes are intended to encourage participation by good college teams that would rather stay home than play in the NIT – to make it the "Little Dance" instead of the "loser's tournament." Newton stated, "What we want to have is a true basketball event, a real tournament, one where there's no preconceived ideas of who gets to New York. We'd love to have great crowds, but this is not a financial consideration. We want good television coverage, but were not going to play this thing for television and move games around." ^[5]. Another positive consideration is that a number one-seeded team that goes to the semifinals will have three home games, which helps ticket sales.

Beginning with the 2007 NIT tournament, the field for the NIT returned to the 32-team field used from 1980 through 2001 from 40, the number chosen since 2002, eliminating the eight "play-in" opening round where team played to qualify for second round games against the top eight seeds. The tournament will feature four eight-team regions. The format did not affect the NIT's automatic bid to any regular-season conference champion that does not make the NCAA's field of 65. Seven teams earned an NIT bid that way in 2006.

A new attendance record for a NIT game was set at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, NY, March 19,2007, at the Syracuse-San Diego State game. Syracuse won the game 80-64 with the attendance total of 26,752. The old record of 23,522 was set by Kentucky in 1979. Crouse College, a 19th-century Romanesque building which houses the universitys visual arts and music programs Syracuse University (SU) is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States the geographic center of the state, about 250 miles northwest of New York City. ... San Diego State University (SDSU), founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School, is the largest and oldest higher education facility in the greater San Diego area (generally the City and County of San Diego), and is part of the California State University system. ...

Women's Tournaments

Since the 1970s, there has been a Women's National Invitation Tournament. It began as an eight-team tournament in Amarillo, Texas. However, this is affiliated with the NIT in name only. It was not connected with MIBA and was not purchased by the NCAA. The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... The Womens National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) is a college basketball tournament with a preseason and postseason version played every year. ... Amarillo redirects here. ...

Men's Post-season NIT Championships

* Michigan won the 1997 NIT title, but later vacated the title and forfeited its entire 1996-97 schedule due to ineligible players.
** Robert Traylor of Michigan was the MVP of the 1997 tournament, but was later declared ineligible and his award vacated.
+ St. John's won the 2003 NIT title, but later vacated the title due to an ineligible player.
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The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. ... The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition. ... NCAA Tournament Final Four 1969, 1980 Conference Regular Season Champions 1911, 1912, 1921, 1922, 1926, 1928, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1940, 1969, 1979, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1994, 1995, 1996 The Purdue Boilermakers basketball team is a college basketball program that competes in NCAA Division I and the Big... The University of Utah (also The U or the U of U or the UU), located in Salt Lake City, is the flagship public research university in the state of Utah, and one of 10 institutions that make up the Utah System of Higher Education. ... The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition. ... For the current Virginia Tech season, see 2006-07 Virginia Tech Hokies mens basketball team. ... For other universities and colleges named Notre Dame, see Notre Dame. ... The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition. ... // Current Roster Inside Comcast Center The Terps have played at the Comcast Center since it opened in 2002. ... Niagara University is a Roman Catholic university in the Vincentian tradition, located in the Town of Lewiston in Niagara County, New York. ... Charles Thomas McMillen (b. ... The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition. ... NCAA Tournament Champions 1957, 1982, 1993, 2005 NCAA Tournament Final Four 1946, 1957, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2005 Conference Tournament Champions 1957, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2007 Conference Regular Season Champions... The Yellow Jackets is the name used for all of the intercollegiate athletic teams that play for the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. ... 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Marquette University is a private, coeducational, Jesuit, Roman Catholic university located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the United States of America. ... Walter Clyde Frazier (born March 29, 1945, in Atlanta, Georgia) is a retired American basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). ... The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition. ... , Brigham Young University (BYU), located in Provo, Utah, is a private coeducational school completely owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon Church) and run under the auspices of its Church Educational System. ... New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university in New York City. ... Villanova University is a private university located in Radnor Township, a suburb northwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. ... The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition. ... St. ... 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The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition. ... This page refers to a college in Rhode Island. ... Saint Louis University is a private, co-educational Catholic Jesuit university in the United States of America located in St. ... The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition. ... Bradley University is a private, co-educational university located in Peoria, Illinois ( , , ). It is a medium sized institution with an enrollment of approximately 6,100 undergraduate and postgraduate students. ... This page refers to a college in Rhode Island. ... Lenny Wilkens with the Portland Trail Blazers Leonard Randolph Wilkens (born October 28, 1937, in Brooklyn, New York, USA) is a former National Basketball Association player, as well as the NBAs career leader in coaching wins and losses. ... The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition. ... St. ... Bradley University is a private, co-educational university located in Peoria, Illinois ( , , ). It is a medium sized institution with an enrollment of approximately 6,100 undergraduate and postgraduate students. ... The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition. ... For other educational institutions using the name Xavier, see Xavier. ... The University of Dayton is a private Catholic university operated by the Society of Mary located in Dayton, Ohio. ... The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition. ... Bradley University is a private, co-educational university located in Peoria, Illinois ( , , ). It is a medium sized institution with an enrollment of approximately 6,100 undergraduate and postgraduate students. ... The Memphis Tigers basketball team represents the University of Memphis in NCAA Division I mens college basketball. ... The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition. ... The University of Louisville (also known as U of L) is a public, state-supported university located in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. ... The University of Dayton is a private Catholic university operated by the Society of Mary located in Dayton, Ohio. ... Charlie Tyra (born August 13, 1935 in Louisville, Kentucky) is a former American basketball player who is best known as the first Louisville Cardinal All American. ... The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition. ... Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit is a private Catholic university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Founded by members of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, Duquesne (IPA: ) first opened its doors as the Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost in October 1878 with an enrollment of 40 students and... The University of Dayton is a private Catholic university operated by the Society of Mary located in Dayton, Ohio. ... Maurice Stokes (born June 17, 1933 in Rankin, Pennsylvania - died April 6, 1970 in Cincinnati, Ohio) was a pro basketball player in the 1950s, whose promising career was shortened by an injury. ... North Campus Saint Francis University is a four-year, coeducational Catholic liberal arts university in Loretto, Pennsylvania. ... The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition. ... Not to be confused with Holy Cross College (Indiana) or other similarly named Holy Cross Colleges. ... Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit is a private Catholic university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Founded by members of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, Duquesne (IPA: ) first opened its doors as the Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost in October 1878 with an enrollment of 40 students and... The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition. ... “Seton Hall” redirects here. ... St. ... The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition. ... Head Coach John Giannini 3rd year, 38-49 (through 06-07) Home Stadium Tom Gola Arena Capacity 4,000 Outfitter And 1 Conference Affiliation MAC (1966-1974) ECC (1974-1983) Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (1983-1992) MCC (1992-1995) Atlantic 10 (1995-Present) Team Records All-Time: 1,184-763... The University of Dayton is a private Catholic university operated by the Society of Mary located in Dayton, Ohio. ... Thomas (Tom) Joseph Gola (born January 13, 1933, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a retired American basketball players. ... The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition. ... , Brigham Young University (BYU), located in Provo, Utah, is a private coeducational school completely owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon Church) and run under the auspices of its Church Educational System. ... 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