NEW HAVEN, Conn. — After an intense weekend of Ivy League Tournament basketball in Ithaca, New York, the Yale males’s basketball crew won’t have to journey far for its first spherical of postseason play.
In the opening spherical of their third-ever National Invitation Tournament look, the Bulldogs will host the UNCW Seahawks out of the Coastal Athletic Association, drawing in because the No. 3 seed of the Winston-Salem Region. Televised on ESPN+, the sport will happen on Tuesday, March 17 at 7 p.m. in the John J. Lee Amphitheater, a primary for the NIT. The winner of the matchup will face off towards the winner of Dayton vs. Bradley in the Second Round on both March 21 or 22.
UNCW (26-6, 15-3 CAA) gained its convention’s regular-season title earlier than falling in the CAA Quarterfinals to the ninth-seeded Campbell Fighting Camels. The defeat ended the Seahawks’ bid for a second-straight NCAA Tournament look.
Yale (24-6, 11-3 Ivy) gained the Ivy League common season championship for the second-straight yr, and third time in 4 years. The Bulldogs’ common season featured marquee non-conference victories over Patriot League common season champion Navy, College of Charleston, MAC Tournament champion Akron and MEAC Tournament champion Howard. Yale, the No. 1 seed in the Ivy League match, fell to Penn in additional time of Sunday’s championship recreation.
This would be the first-ever matchup between Yale and UNC Wilmington in males’s basketball.
Yale is making its third look in the NIT. In 2001-02, the Bulldogs upset Rutgers in the primary spherical, the primary postseason victory in the lengthy historical past of this system. In the second spherical, the Bulldogs hosted Tennessee Tech at the outdated New Haven Coliseum, and earlier than 9,847 followers, the most important residence crowd in the historical past of Yale males’s basketball, the Bulldogs fell to the Golden Eagles. In 2022-23, Yale fell to the Vanderbilt Commodores in the opening spherical of the match.
In 2026, the NIT will host its championship in the identical host metropolis because the NCAA Final Four for the primary time ever, with the title recreation going down on April 5 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
An Ivy League program has not gained the NIT since Princeton gained all of it in 1975.
