The top seeded Washington Huskies will welcome the third seeded Oregon Ducks on Tuesday night as the PAC-12 rivals face off with a trip to the NIT semifinals in New York City on the line. The Huskies and Ducks face off in quarterfinal round NIT Tournament action tonight at 9:00 PM Eastern time from the Alaska Airlines Arena in Seattle, Washington.
You can watch the Huskies and the Ducks play live online here.
Here's a video from earlier in the season for Washington:
And here's more on the matchup between the Drexel Dragons and the UMass Minutemen:
The winner of tonight's game between Drexel and UMass will advance to the NIT's Final Four, the tournament's semi-final round which will be held at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. They'll face the winner of tomorrow's Middle Tennessee-Minnesota game in the tournament's semifinals on March 27th.
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 Oregon – Washington matchup from the Kansas City Star:
Familiar foes will take the court tonight in the National Invitation Tournament's quarterfinal round, as the Oregon Ducks head to Alaska Airlines Arena to take on the Pac-12 Conference rival Washington Huskies with a trip to Madison Square Garden on the line.
The winner of this postseason clash will head to New York City for the semifinal round next week.
Oregon will play its first road game of the NIT after taking down LSU and Iowa by double-digit margins in Eugene. The Ducks have won six of their last seven games coming into this one, with the only loss being a tough 63-62 setback to Colorado in the Pac-12 Conference Tournament. With the exception of their loss in the Pac-12 tourney, the Ducks have been on fire lately, scoring 90 points or more in four of their last five outings. Head coach Dana Altman's squad scored a season-high 108 points on Sunday versus Iowa by shooting 59.3 percent from the floor while making 10-of-23 from beyond the arc and 28-of-32 from the free throw line.
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