The football team has played in 17 bowl games and the basketball team has had strong showings in the last several years, qualifying for the NCAA tournament and, most recently, making the final four of the 2007 NIT Tournament.

Overall, the team has earned 15 NCAA basketball tournament berths and 18 NIT berths, as well as having numerous players named All-Americans.

Saint Peter's has won the MAAC men's basketball championship and the accompanying automatic bid to the NCAA tournament three times ( 1991, 1995, and 2011 ) and has appeared in the National Invitation Tournament ( NIT ) 12 times ( 1957, 1958, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1987 and 1989 ).

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.

DePaul has been to the NCAA tournament 22 times ( two Final Four appearances ) and NIT tournament 16 times.

Southern Illinois has won NAIA and NIT titles.

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

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 ", " Never Important Tournament ", " Nobody's Interested Tournament ", " Needs Improvement Tournament ", " No Important Team ", " National Insignificant Tournament ," or simply " Not In Tournament ".

The men's team has 4 NIT appearances, 6 NCAA tournament appearances, 4 second round appearances, and 1 sweet 16 appearance.

The women's team has 1 NIT appearance, 2 NCAA tournament appearances, and 1 elite eight appearance.

The men's basketball team has made two appearances in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, most recently in 2002, and the team has qualified for the NIT three times, the most recent invitation being in 2011.

The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development, has started IT finishing schools at NIT Calicut and seven other national institutions: the Indian Institute of Technology ( IIT ), Roorkee, and the National Institutes of Technology ( NITs ) at Durgapur, Kurushetra, Jaipur, Surathkal, Trichy and Warangal.

Southern Illinois has won NAIA and NIT titles.

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 ).

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.

It marked the first time since the 1976 – 1977 season that an Iowa team with a winning record has failed to make either the NCAA tournament or the NIT.

It also has NIT Silchar

Known as Mr. Basketball, Holman guided CCNY to the so-called grand slam of college basketball, winning both the NCAA and NIT titles in 1950, a feat that has never been achieved since ( and is no longer possible as both tournaments are now done concurrently ).

The Lobos men's basketball team has returned the favor by winning 631 of the 776 games played at The Pit through the 2009 – 10 basketball season, for a. 820 winning percentage, along with 14 NCAA tournament appearances and 15 NIT appearances since the opening of the arena.

NIT Surat has nine academic departments in addition to laboratories and central research facilities.

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.

As part of the purchase of the NIT by the NCAA, the MIBA disbanded for the 10-year duration.

The complex is a $ 31-million athletic facility named for Al McGuire, the legendary coach who led the men's basketball team to an NCAA championship, an NIT title, and 295 victories in 13 seasons.

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.

* In 2006, the Bulldogs won the 2006 Preseason NIT, beating most notably Indiana and Notre Dame to reach the semifinals in New York City.

The largest, the State of East Indonesia ( NIT ), encompassed most of eastern Indonesia, and was established in December 1946, with its administrative capital in Makassar.

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.

In basketball MAAC teams have made a total of 77 NIT appearances and 47 NCAA appearances.

The change involved an update to the NIT ( Network Information Table ), which some receivers could not accommodate.

Nee led the Cornhuskers to five of their six NCAA Tournament appearances, six bids to the National Invitation Tournament, including the 1996 NIT Championship.

The men's basketball team won the 2007 NIT Championship and the 2010 Big East championship, while appearing four times in the sweet sixteen, twice in the elite-eight, and once in the final-four of the NCAA tournament.

Providence College won the 1961 and 1963 NIT championship and participated in the 1973 and 1987 Final Four, and the 1997 squad advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight.

Subhash Kak completed his BE from NIT Srinagar and Ph. D. at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1970.

Melchionni was a wispy guard from Bishop Eustace Prep ( Pennsauken, NJ ) who was a collegiate star in the mid-1960s at Villanova University and was the Most Valuable Player in the 1966 NIT, when Villanova finished in third place in the tournament.

Under legendary coach Don Kennedy, the men's team gained national attention by defeating heavily favored and nationally ranked Duke University in the 1968 NIT quarterfinals, en route to a fourth-place finish.

Mikan was named the Helms NCAA College Player of the Year twice in 1944 and 1945 and an All-American three times, leading DePaul to the NIT title in 1945.

They made the semifinals of the National Invitation Tournament ( NIT ), where they were defeated by eventual champions University of South Carolina.

We got this grainy black-and white film of the UMass-North Carolina game in the NIT.

The first appearance in post-season play came in 1998 when they were selected for the NIT.

They played again in the NIT in 2001.

The team reached the NCAA finals against UCLA in 1967 and won the NIT in 1962, 1968, and 2010.

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

The team defeated Manhattan College 84-81 in the first round of the 1974 NIT and fell to Jacksonville University 85-83 in the quarterfinals.