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.
Participating teams The following teams received an invitation to the 2015 CIT: SchoolConferenceOverallrecordConferencerecordBowling GreenMid-American20–1111–7CanisiusMAAC16–1411–9Cleveland StateHorizon18–1411–5DartmouthIvy League14–147–7Eastern IllinoisOhio Valley17–149–7Eastern KentuckyOhio Valley19–1111–5EvansvilleMissouri Valley19–129–9Florida Gulf CoastAtlantic Sun22–1012–3Grand CanyonWAC17–148–6High PointBig South22–913–5Incarnate WordSouthland18–1010–8IPFWSummit16–149–7James MadisonCAA19–1312–6Kent StateMid-American21–1112–6Louisiana–LafayetteSun Belt20–1313–7Maryland Eastern ShoreMEAC18–1411–5Middle TennesseeConference USA19–169–9New HampshireAmerica East19–1211–5NJITD-I independent18–11 —Norfolk StateMEAC20–1312–4Northern ArizonaBig Sky19–1413–5Northwestern StateSouthland19–1213–5OaklandHorizon16–1611–5PortlandWest Coast17–157–11Sacramento StateBig Sky20–1113–5Saint Francis (PA)Northeast16–159–9Sam Houston StateSouthland25–815–3Texas A&M–Corpus ChristiSouthland19–1313–5UNC WilmingtonCAA18–1312–6USC UpstateAtlantic Sun23–118–6UT MartinOhio Valley18–1210–6Western MichiganMid-American20–1210–8
Format 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.
Schedule Date Time* Matchup Recap Boxscore Television First roundMarch 16 7:00 pmNew Hampshire 77 at NJIT 84 March 17 7:00 pm Eastern Illinois 97 at Oakland 91 Comcast 900 7:00 pmJames Madison 72 at USC Upstate 73 ESPN3 7:00 pm Bowling Green 67 at Saint Francis (PA) 64 7:00 pmNorfolk State 75 at Eastern Kentucky 81 8:00 pmUL-Lafayette 83 at Incarnate Word 68 March 18 7:00 pmUMES 64 at High Point 70 7:00 pmDartmouth 72 at Canisius 87 7:00 pmTexas A&M–Corpus Christi 75 at FGCU 69 ESPN3 7:00 pmCleveland State 86 at Western Michigan 57 7:00 pmKent State 68 at Middle Tennessee 56 7:05 pmIPFW 77 at Evansville 82 7:30 pmUNC Wilmington 71 at Sam Houston State 87 8:00 pmNorthern Arizona 75 at Grand Canyon 70 Cox 7 10:00 pmSacramento State 73 at Portland 66 March 19 7:30 pmUT Martin 104 at Northwestern State 79 Second round March 20 7:00 pm High Point 65 at Eastern Kentucky 66 March 21 1:00 pm Canisius 82 at Bowling Green 59 BCSN 3:00 pm UL Lafayette 71 at Sam Houston State 70 5:00 pm UT Martin 60 at USC Upstate 49 ESPN3 10:00 pm Northern Arizona 78 at Sacramento State 73 March 23 7:00 pm Cleveland State 77 at NJIT 80 8:00 pm Evansville 83 at Eastern Illinois 68 8:00 pm Kent State 69 at Texas A&M–Corpus Christi 65 Quarterfinals March 25 7:00 pmUT Martin 70 at Eastern Kentucky 69 March 26 7:30 pmEvansville 89 at UL Lafayette 82 March 27 10:00 pmKent State 73 at Northern Arizona 74 OT FCS AtlanticFS Arizona+STO March 28 7:30 pmCanisius 73 at NJIT 78 SemifinalsMarch 31 7:00 pmUT Martin 66 at Evansville 79 CBSSN 9:00 pmNJIT 61 at Northern Arizona 68 CBSSN ChampionshipApril 2 7:00 pmNorthern Arizona 65 at Evansville 71 CBSSN * All game times in Eastern Daylight Time. Winning team in bold.
Bracket Bracket is for visual purposes only. The CIT does not have a set bracket.
Home teams listed second. * Denotes overtime period.
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