National Commissioners Invitational Tournament

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The National Commissioners Invitational Tournament was an eight-team postseason men's college basketball tournament run by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). It was introduced in 1974 as the Collegiate Commissioners Association Tournament. Invitees were runner-up teams in major conferences. It was created because the NCAA wanted to "kill" the National Invitation Tournament (NIT), which, at that time, it did not control ^{[citation needed]}. It only lasted two years before being discontinued after changes to the NCAA tournament which allowed more than one team per conference to participate.