2025 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament
| Season | 2024–25 | ||||
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| Teams | 16 | ||||
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The 2025 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) is a postseason single-elimination tournament of NCAA Division I basketball teams. This will be the first CIT contested. The 2020 and 2021 CITs were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, the CIT was replaced by The Basketball Classic. Neither The Basketball Classic nor the CIT were contested in 2023. The CIT plans to employ a 16-team pod-based format for the 2024–25 postseason.[1]
Four classics will be contested during the tournament, each named in honor of a legendary college basketball coach: Hugh Durham, Lou Henson, John McLendon, and Jim Phelan. The winner of each classic will be awarded a trophy, and a classic most valuable player will named.[1]
Norfolk State is the defending champion.[2]
Participating teams
[edit]The teams listed below accepted an invitation to the 2025 CIT. The entire field will be seeded.[1]
Note: Team records are before playing in the tournament.
| Seed | Team | Conference | Record | Appearance | Last Bid |
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Bracket
[edit]| First Round March 18 | Quarterfinals March 19 | Semifinals March 21–22 | Final March 25 | ||||||||||||
| Jim Phelan Classic | |||||||||||||||
| Hugh Durham Classic | |||||||||||||||
| John McLendon Classic | |||||||||||||||
| Lou Henson Classic | |||||||||||||||
Game summaries
[edit]- All times are in Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4)
First round
[edit]Quarterfinals
[edit]Semifinals
[edit]Final
[edit]Awards
[edit]The CIT will present the awards shown below.
| Award | Recipient | School |
|---|---|---|
| CIT MVP | ||
| Lou Henson Classic MVP | ||
| Jim Phelan Classic MVP | ||
| Hugh Durham Classic MVP | ||
| John McLendon Classic MVP |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Schedule/Results". CollegeInsider.com. Retrieved February 24, 2025.
- ^ "Norfolk State Beats Purdue Fort Wayne 75-67 for the CIT Championship". The Associated Press. March 27, 2024. Retrieved March 28, 2024.