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National Invitation Tournament

second tier postseason college basketball tournament in the U.S.
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National Invitation Tournament

Summary

National Invitation Tournament is a basketball tournament[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of basketball_tournament entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (263 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • National Invitation Tournament is in the country of United States[3].
  • National Invitation Tournament's instance of is recorded as basketball tournament[4].
  • National Invitation Tournament's logo image is recorded as NIT logo RGB 2023.svg[5].
  • National Invitation Tournament's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 130400680[6].
  • National Invitation Tournament's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n2006076021[7].
  • +1938-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of National Invitation Tournament[8].
  • National Invitation Tournament's sport is recorded as basketball[9].
  • National Invitation Tournament's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02nz0z[10].
  • National Invitation Tournament's organizer is recorded as National Collegiate Athletic Association[11].
  • National Invitation Tournament's official website is recorded as http://www.ncaa.com/championships/basketball-men/nit[12].
  • National Invitation Tournament's topic's main category is recorded as Category:National Invitation Tournament[13].
  • National Invitation Tournament's number of participants is recorded as {'amount': '+32'}[14].
  • National Invitation Tournament's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as sports/National-Invitation-Tournament[15].
  • National Invitation Tournament's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'National Invitation Tournament'}[16].
  • National Invitation Tournament's event interval is recorded as {'unit': 'Q577', 'amount': '+1'}[17].
  • National Invitation Tournament's KBpedia ID is recorded as NITBasketballTournament-PostSeason[18].

Why It Matters

National Invitation Tournament ranks in the top 7% of basketball_tournament entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (263 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_national-invitation-tournament_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{National Invitation Tournament}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/national-invitation-tournament}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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