NIT 2016: TV Schedule, Live Stream Info for Tournament Bracket Reveal

With Selection Sunday rapidly approaching on March 13, there are going to be 68 happy teams that are on their way to the NCAA tournament. For a number of teams, their dreams of heading to college basketball's biggest tournament will come up short, but they do have some consolation in the NIT. 

There will be 32 teams selected to the tournament, which will span from March 17 to the championship game at Madison Square Garden on April 2. 

Here's everything you need to know about the NIT's selection show:

Date: Sunday, March 13

Time (ET): 8:30 p.m.

TV: ESPNU

Live Stream: Watch ESPN

The NIT selection committee will have to see which teams are left out of the NCAA tournament in order to make its decisions. That's obviously why the selection show is three hours after the NCAA's. 

If there are any teams that won an NCAA Division I regular-season conference title and didn't make the NCAA tournament, then they will receive automatic qualification to the NIT. 

That already creates speculation on some of the mid-major conference regular-season champs that didn't win their respective postseason tournaments:

Team	Conference	Regular-Season Record	Conference Champ
North Florida	Atlantic Sun	22-11	Florida Gulf Coast
High Point	Big South	21-10	UNC-Asheville
Hofstra	Colonial	24-9	UNC-Wilmington
Valparaiso	Horizon	26-6	Green Bay
Monmouth	MAAC	27-7	Iona
Wichita State	Missouri Valley	24-8	Northern Iowa
Wagner	NEC	22-10	Fairleigh Dickinson
Belmont, Tennessee Martin, Murray State	OVC	20-11, 19-14, 17-14	Austin Peay
Bucknell	Patriot	17-13	Holy Cross
Saint Mary's	West Coast	27-5	Gonzaga

After those automatic berths are given, the committee will then select the best remaining teams to round out the field of 32 teams. 

The first two rounds will be played on campus sites before the semifinals and championship game take center stage at the world's most famous arena in Manhattan.