2015 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament
| 2015 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament | |||||
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| Season | 2014–15 | ||||
| Teams | 32 | ||||
| Finals site |
Ford Center Evansville, IN |
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| Champions | Evansville (1st title) | ||||
| Runner-up | Northern Arizona (1st title game) | ||||
| Semifinalists | |||||
| Winning coach | Marty Simmons (1st title) | ||||
| MVP | D.J. Balentine Evansville | ||||
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The 2015 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) was a postseason single-elimination tournament of 32 NCAA Division I basketball teams. The first round started on March 16, 2015. The semifinals were played on March 31, and the championship game was on April 2, 2015. The Evansville Purple Aces beat the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks for their first CIT championship.
Thirty-two participants who belonged to "mid-major" conferences, or were independent, and were not invited to the 2015 NCAA Tournament, National Invitation Tournament (NIT), or College Basketball Invitational (CBI) made up the field.
At the request of the NCAA Men's Basketball Rules Committee, the CIT experimented with a 30-second shot clock during the 2015 tournament.
In alphabetical order, the following teams received an invitation to and participated in the 2015 CIT:
As in the previous year, the CIT used the former model which was traditionally used by the NIT in which teams are re-seeded and match-ups are determined based on the results of the previous round. All games were played on campus sites.
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