CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament

CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament

Current season, competition or edition: 2017 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament
CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament
Sport	Basketball
Founded	2009
Founder	College Insider
Inaugural season	2009
No. of teams	26
Country	United States
Most recent champion(s)	Columbia
Most titles	No team has more than one title.
TV partner(s)	Fox College Sports (2009–2012) CBS Sports Network (2013–present)
Related competitions	College Basketball Invitational National Invitational Tournament Vegas 16
Official website	http://www.collegeinsider.com/tournament/

The CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) is an American men's college basketball post-season tournament created in 2009 by CollegeInsider.com. In 2012 it expanded to 32 participating teams. In 2016 and 2017 the tournament featured 26 teams. The Tournament is oriented toward mid-major and small schools who did not get selected to go the NCAA or NIT tournaments.

The tournament consists of five rounds, single elimination-style, and claims to "use the old NIT model in which matchups in future rounds are determined by the results of the previous round". Criteria for selection include, but are not limited to win-loss record, strength of schedule, strength of conference, and final ten games. Teams from "major conferences" (defined by CollegeInsider.com as the Power Five conferences, Atlantic 10 Conference, American Athletic Conference, Big East Conference, Conference USA and Mountain West Conference) are generally ineligible. Participating teams must finish the regular season with a .500 winning percentage or better to qualify. The only exception to this was the now-defunct Great West Conference Tournament winner, who was given an automatic bid to play in the CIT if they were not given an at-large bid to participate in the NCAA or NIT tournaments, until the dissolution of the conference in 2013–14. In 2013, the Chicago State Cougars won the Great West Conference Tournament, thus becoming the first team to participate in the CIT with a sub-.500 record (11–21). Beginning with the 2016 Tournament, The Coach John McLendon Classic will be played on the first day of the tournament The Classic will feature at least one historically black college/university. The winner of the John McLendon Classic will advance to the second round of the CIT. This will be the first time in NCAA Division I Basketball history, that a "Classic" has been part of a postseason tournament. Previously the John McLendon Classic was played during the regular season.