The Washington Huskies and the Minnesota Golden Gophers will tip off tonight at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York tonight at approximately 9:30 PM Eastern Time in an NIT Tournament semi-final game. The winner will advance to the NIT championship game on Thursday night against the winner of the night's first game, pitting Stanford vs. UMass.
You can watch the Huskies and the Golden Gophers play live online here.
Here's a video from earlier in the season for Washington:
And here's more on the matchup between the Washington Huskies and the Minnesota Golden Gophers:
The winner of tonight's game between the Washington Huskies and the Minnesota Golden Gophers will go on to face either the Stanford Cardinal or UMass Minutemen, who played in the opening game tonight at MSG. The NIT Championship game tips off at 7 PM Eastern Time on Thursday.
The NIT Tournament, which had been the only postseason college basketball tournament for a season in 1937 before the NCAA tournament came into being in 1938, was hotly debated as the most prestigious of the two tournaments for some time, but the NCAA tournament eventually prevailed and the NIT became the consolation tournament.
Recently, the College Basketball Invitational Tournament has become the second consolation tournament behind the NIT, providing almost half of the NCAA's 350-plus Division I basketball teams a chance at postseason play.
Here's more on the Minnesota – Washington matchup from the Kansas City Star:
Vying for a spot in the finals of the 75th annual Postseason National Invitational Tournament, the sixth-seeded Minnesota Golden Gophers will try to topple the top-seeded Washington Huskies in a semifinal bout at Madison Square Garden.
Minnesota has won three straight games on the road against higher seeds and so enters this semifinal matchup battle-tested. The Golden Gophers topped third- seed La Salle in the first round, then routed second-seed Miami-Florida before downing Middle Tennessee in the quarterfinals to move into the team's fifth NIT Final Four. The win over the Blue Raiders was the fifth in six games for the Golden Gophers going back to the regular season and Big Ten tournament and gives them an overall ledger of 22-14. The Golden Gophers have a rich tradition in the NIT, sporting a 21-11 overall record (27-12 including vacated games in 1996 and 1998). The team won two championships in 1993 and 1998, although the latter was vacated due to an ineligible student athlete.
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