2025 NIT Bracket Challenge

Friends. Americans. International fans of the National Invitation Tournament.

The NIT is underway.

If you’re participating in our NIT Bracket Challenge, you can check your scores below. You can also check the master scoreboard (with everybody’s bracket) here, and you can click here to see how often different teams were picked to advance to different rounds. If you aren’t participating, well, set a reminder for March of next year. You’re missing out.

If you have questions or notice anything’s off about your bracket, feel free to email us at allthingsnit @ gmail dot com. We’ll get it sorted out.

We’ll have NIT coverage coming your way all month, so keep on visiting our homepage. Besides that? Enjoy the NIT, everybody. It’s an honor to share it with you all.

Full rules:

• 1 point for every team correctly picked to advance to the second round.
• 2 points for every team correctly picked to advance to the quarterfinals.
• 4 points for every team correctly picked to advance to the final four.
• 8 points for every team correctly picked to advance to the championship.
• 16 points for correctly picking the champion.
• NIT Stu’s bloodwork has ruled out the reinstatement of the frozen pizza tiebreaker from 2022. Instead, in appreciation of those willing to fight for their beliefs, we’re asking you to guess how many technical fouls will be assessed during the NIT. Any relevant ties will be broken by how many guys get T’d up and how often they do it.
• All decisions by The Barking Crow regarding scoring and tiebreakers are final. By joining this challenge, you agree to this. This is even more binding than a contract with Fox Sports.
• The winner, runner-up, and third-place finisher will receive prizes of decreasing value. The prizes are negotiable, but we hold final say. Past winners have received combinations of merchandise, future NIT ticket options, and fast food gift cards.
• All brackets must be received before the first game of the tournament tips off. Tuesday 3/18, 7:00 PM EDT.
• One entry per email address, with one exception. If you’re among those who want their kids to participate (because you’re teaching your kids life lessons about the worth of postseason college basketball), just email us at allthingsnit at gmail dot com and explain yourself. If that’s the reason, we’ll allow your extra entry or entries through. No need to create a second email address for this. The Barking Crow is run by reasonable people. You can tell by how much we like the NIT.

Last updated: 12:19 AM EDT, Friday 4/4

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