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 ).

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

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.

In both common and official usage, " NIT " or " National Invitation Tournament " refers to the post-season tournament unless otherwise qualified.

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 ".

WKU also made three appearances in the NIT Final Four while it was the premier post-season tournament.

* In the 1985 post-season, the Bruins hosted their first National Invitation Tournament ( NIT ) tournament games under coach Walt Hazzard.

Meyer coached DePaul to 21 post-season appearances ( 13 NCAA, eight NIT ).

The Men's Basketball team earned post-season berths in the NCAA tournament or NIT four straight seasons between 2002 and 2005 and also in 2011.

During the 2002-2003 season ( his fourth year ), Steve Fisher's Aztecs returned to the post-season when they hosted an NIT First round match against UCSB.

It was their third consecutive trip to the NIT, and fourth consecutive post-season appearance.

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.

Additionally, Dayton played in seven NIT post-season competitions under Donoher, winning the championship in 1968.

The franchise has started to return to prominence after qualifying for the post-season in each of the past three seasons.

Grossman then started for the Bears in their only post-season game.

He also started in 14 post-season games.

In the post-season he started all 12 games and hit. 286 while stealing 6 bases on 9 attempts.

On October 4 against the Milwaukee Brewers in the 2008 National League Division Series, Moyer became the second-oldest pitcher to ever start a post-season game at the age of 45 years 321 days, and the oldest since 1929 when Jack Quinn started for the Philadelphia Athletics at 46 years 103 days.

Zachry pitched quite well in the post-season as well, starting and winning game two of the 1976 National League Championship Series against the Philadelphia Phillies, and in the 1976 World Series, he started and won game three at Yankee Stadium, helping the " Big Red Machine " become the only team to ever sweep the entire post-season en route to winning their second consecutive world championship.

After entering NCAA Division II competition, the Rattlers won the Heartland Conference co-championship and advanced to the regional tournament in 2001, the team ’ s first year of post-season competition eligibility.

Although the Cougars would not be eligible for OVC or NCAA post-season competition until the 2012-13 season, they were invited to play in the 2012 Women's Basketball Invitational ( WBI ) tournament.

In 1977 league presidents voted to allow post-season participation by member schools if they were so invited by the NCAA Division III Football Committee ( Harburn 4 ).

Conference tenets are usually more restrictive than those of the NCAA Division III regarding season length, number of contests and post-season competition.

III schools with four teams competing in post-season NCAA tournaments.

In April 2012, the NCAA concluded that " major violations " had occurred, and that all 13 varsity athletic teams would be on probation until April 2016, that the women's basketball team would be banned from post-season play in 2013.

Previously, only NCAA post-season games were broadcast on national television, but only on evidence that broadcasters were going to make a profit from the broadcasts.

The Music City Bowl is a post-season American college football bowl game certified by the NCAA that has been played in Nashville, Tennessee, since 1998.

The SEC championship was moved to Atlanta's Georgia Dome two years later, leaving Legion Field without any Division I-A postseason college football until 2006, when the NCAA agreed to hold a new post-season game the Papajohns. com Bowl ( now the BBVA Compass Bowl ), proposed by ESPN.

The NCAA adopted an overtime rule for the 1995 post-season and all games thereafter.

The Little Caesars Pizza Bowl ( known as the Motor City Bowl until 2009 ) is a post-season college football bowl game certified by the NCAA that has been played annually since 1997.

The Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl is a post-season college football bowl game certified by the NCAA that has been played annually at 40, 800-seat AT & T Park, home of the San Francisco Giants, in San Francisco, California, since 2002.

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.

* NCAA ( in-season tournaments ): For tournaments held during the season ( such as the Beanpot and Great Lakes Invitational ), in which advancement or determination of a champion is necessary, organizers have the option of either using the post-season overtime procedure or using the regular-season procedure followed by a penalty shootout.

* NCAA ( post-season ): Same as the NHL overtime procedure above, except that all overtimes are played with the teams defending the same ends as for the third period.

The NCAA and NFHS activity in lacrosse is almost exclusively focused on rules, with the additional NCAA focus on staging a post-season tournament.

The NCAA governs college post-season play and writes rules for college post season play … which have traditionally been adopted for regular season play by all men ’ s and women ’ s college lacrosse conferences and independents.

The Dome is home to the NFL's Atlanta Falcons, the NCAA Division I Georgia State Panthers of Georgia State University, the annual host ( since 1998 ) to FCS Classic football game between Florida A & M University and another HBCU opponent ( Southern in 2011 and Tennessee State University in prior years ), and the annual host to the Southeastern Conference Football Championship Game, Chick-fil-A Bowl ( formerly known as The Chick-fil-a Peach Bowl and The Peach Bowl ) post-season college football games, and since 2004 the FIRST World Championships.

* Pauley Pavilion hosted its first NCAA Regional Finals in the 1969 post-season.

The Palestra has hosted more regular season or post-season NCAA men's basketball games, more visiting teams, and more NCAA tournaments than any other U. S. arena.

As a senior team captain, he led the Gators to the 1969 National Invitation Tournament — their first-ever post-season tournament.

In its first season under Cooper-Dyke, UNCW established a program record for victories in a season with 24 wins and made its first post-season appearance, accepting an at-large invitation to the 2011 Postseason Women ’ s National Invitation Tournament.

The status of the post-season National Invitation Tournament as a " consolation " fixture has led to somewhat of a stigma in the minds of many fans.

* The 1987 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, the first Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, was played in Pauley Pavilion in the 1987 post-season.

The Dolphins were invited to the National Invitation Tournament, the school's first post-season tournament since 1986, but they lost in the first round to the University of Florida Gators.

Two Meyer-coached teams reached the Final Four ( 1943 and 1979 ), and in 1945, Meyer led DePaul past Bowling Green to capture the National Invitation Tournament, the school's only post-season title.

The Tigers have an. 810 winning percentage in games played there all time and are 25-2 in NCAA Tournament games there since the NCAA changed its post-season format in 1999 ( with a 39-8 record in NCAA Tournament games all time ).

In the post-season tournaments they quickly regained form, however, by winning the Big Ten Tournament in Chicago.

Since the 2005-2006 season, Steve Fisher has led the Aztecs to seven consecutive post-season appearances, and back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances for the first time in school history since the 1974-1975 and 1975-1976 seasons.

Desko has an overall record of 147-43 and a post-season record of 27-5 ( an. 844 Winning Percentage, the best of any head coach in the history of the NCAA Division I Lacrosse Tournament ).

From 1970 to 1981, he was the head coach of Seton Hall University where he had a 154 – 141 win-loss record and led the Pirates to four ECAC post-season tournaments and two National Invitational Tournament appearances.