The Golden Gophers men's basketball team has won two National Championships, one National Invitation Tournament ( NIT ) Championship and eight Big Ten Regular Season Championships.

The first, played in November and known as the Dick's Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off ( formerly the Preseason NIT ), was founded in 1985.

Other regular events at the arena include the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus when it comes to New York City ( although the Izod Center and Nassau Coliseum also host the circus each year ), selected home games for the St. John's men's Red Storm ( college basketball ), the annual pre and postseason NIT tournaments, the NBA Draft, the Millrose Games track and field meet, and almost any other kind of indoor activity that draws large audiences, such as the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show and the 2004 Republican National Convention.

To date, the NIT is the only postseason basketball tournament whose champion has later been forced to give up the title.

Over the following 27 years, Thompson's Hoyas went an impressive 596 – 239 (. 714 ), running off a streak of 24 postseason appearances – 20 in the NCAA tournament, four in the NIT – including a 14-year streak of NCAA appearances from 1979 – 1992 that saw three Final Four appearances in 1982, 1984 and 1985, winning a National Championship in 1984 and narrowly missing a repeat the next year by losing to underdog Villanova.

Under his tutelage, the Cowboys reached the postseason 14 times in his 17 years in Stillwater ( having declined an NIT bid in Sutton's sixth season as head coach ), including 13 NCAA Tournament bids and two Final Four appearances.

Michigan finished the 2002 – 2003 season with a 17 – 13 record, but sat out both that year's NCAA and NIT tournaments due to the self-imposed postseason ban.

Williams has coached Maryland to fourteen NCAA tournament appearances, including a streak of eleven consecutive appearances ( 1993-1994 season to 2003-2004 season ), as well as four post season NIT appearances, allowing Maryland to own the longest current consecutive streak of postseason appearances in the ACC ( Wake Forest, who had previously had the longest active streak, failed to qualify for the postseason in 2007.

In his first season, Ramsay would lead the Hawks to their first Big 5 crown and their first-ever postseason berth ( in the NIT ).

Overall Fisher has guided SDSU to the NCAA Tournament in 2002, 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2012, and the postseason NIT in 2003, 2007, 2008, and 2009, to go along with seven 20-win seasons ( seven consecutive from 2006-present ); with the 2010-2011 season being the Aztecs ' first 30 win season in school history.

During his tenure, UNO advanced to postseason play five times, including two NCAA Tournament appearances in 1991 and 1993 and the NIT three times.

There, he was notable for hitting the game winning shot in the 1979 NIT championship game, vs. Purdue, earning him the tournament's MVP award, alongside teammate Ray Tolbert.

Its post-season basketball tournament, which was first conducted in 1936, is the oldest college post-season tournament in continuous existence — predating the NCAA tournament ( 1939 ) and the NIT ( 1938 ).

* Smith is one of only three coaches to have coached teams to an Olympic gold medal, an NIT championship and an NCAA championship.

The National Invitation Tournament ( NIT ) is a men's college basketball tournament operated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

The second, the original NIT, is a post-season tournament played in March and April that is now called the MasterCard NIT ; it was founded in 1938.

The post-season NIT, started in 1938, pre-dates the NCAA Tournament by one year and is second in age only to the NAIA Tournament, which was founded by James Naismith in 1937.

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.

For example, at the University of Tulsa, which won the NIT in 1981 and 2001, the Golden Hurricane's NIT " championship tradition " is viewed with pride and as a " lure " for players to join the program.

However, this is affiliated with the NIT in name only.

The 21st ( and the first brand-new ) NIT is planned for Imphal in the north-eastern state of Manipur at an initial cost of Rs.

The target is to fulfill the need for quality manpower in the field of engineering, science, and technology and to provide consistent governance, fee structure, and rules across the NITs. The law designates each NIT an Institute of National Importance ( INI ).

This is conglomerate diversification of NIT Calicut.

NITC is also the mentoring institute of NIT Sikkim.

The only school to have won national titles in both the NAIA and NCAA Division I is Louisville ; the Cardinals have also won the NIT title.

BHEL primarily recruits through an all India entrance test for Engineers / Finance / HR executives. A small percentage of recruitment is through campus, though the institutes visited is random / arbitrary and can range from IIT's to colleges like NIT Silchar, PEC, etc.

NITK also offers MCA ( Master of Computer Application ) course for graduate students in which admmission is done on the basis of NIMCET ( NIT MCA Common Entrance Test ).

NITK is rated as the best NIT amongst all NITs, and has the best industry interface amongst all college of India, due to it being situated in Karnataka, near Bangalore ( Silicon Valley Of India ).

National Institute of Technology, Warangal ( NIT Warangal or NITW ) is a public engineering institute located in Warangal, India.

* One NIT Championship ( 1979 ) over rival Purdue ; and one Runner-up finish ( 1985 ) to a UCLA team featuring future member of the Indiana Pacers, Reggie Miller

After being promoted to head coach, he compiled a 68 – 42 record with the Tigers from 2000 to 2004 and guided the team to three Ivy League championships, two NCAA tournament appearances, and one NIT tournament appearance.

In 1982, Williams returned to Boston College, leading the Eagles to two NCAA tournament appearances, and one NIT appearance in his four year tenure.

Under Williams, the Buckeyes advanced to one NCAA tournament appearance and two NIT appearances in three seasons.

Rourkela also houses one of the premier institutes of the country, NIT Rourkela.

However, the Gators were given a number one seed in the 2009 NIT, where they lost to the Penn State Nittany Lions in the quarterfinals.

His win in the Olympics made him one of only three coaches to win the " Triple Crown " of NCAA, NIT and Olympic championships.

At his supposed graduating from college ( ch 78, he was one class shy ), he started working at the repair shop Whirlwind owned by the founder of the NIT Motor Club: Chihiro Fujimi.

NIT Kurukshetra is constantly ranked as one of the worst engineering colleges in Haryana.

The NIT, held for the best teams that didn't make the NCAA Tournament, was at one time an entirely at-large event ; new regulations, however, offer automatic bids to teams regular season conference champions which failed to win their post-season conference tournament.

In 1975 he became the head coach and athletic director at UNC Charlotte, where in three seasons he took the 49ers to one NIT championship game ( 1976 ) and to the NCAA Final Four ( 1977 ).

As home to the University of Kentucky Wildcats, it saw two NCAA men's basketball national championship teams ( 1951, 1958 ), two NCAA men's basketball runner-up teams ( 1966, 1975 ), one NIT Men's Basketball champion ( 1976 ), and 16 Southeastern Conference ( SEC ) Men's Basketball regular season champions.

He helped Nebraska to the school's first basketball championship of any kind as a junior in 1995-96, registering 11 points ( 4-9 FG, 3-5 FT ), a game-high 13 rebounds, and one block in a 60-56 win vs. St. Joseph's in the 1996 NIT title game.