You are Here: Home > NIT Men's Basketball Champions NIT Men's Basketball Champions   Year Champ Runner-Up Third Fourth 1938 Temple Colorado Oklahoma A&M NYU 1939 Long Island Loyola (Chicago) Bradley St. John's   1940 Colorado Duquesne Oklahoma A&M DePaul 1941 Long Island Ohio CCNY Seton Hall 1942 West Virginia Western Kentucky Creighton Toledo 1943 St. John's Toledo Washington & Jefferson Fordham 1944 St. John's DePaul Kentucky Oklahoma A&M 1945 DePaul Bowling Green St. John's Rhode Island 1946 Kentucky Rhode Island West Virginia Muhlenberg 1947 Utah Kentucky North Carolina State West Virginia 1948 Saint Louis NYU Western Kentucky DePaul 1949 San Francisco Loyola (Chicago) Bowling Green Bradley   1950 CCNY Bradley St. John's Duquesne 1951 Brigham Young Dayton St. John's Seton Hall 1952 La Salle Dayton St. Bonaventure Duquesne 1953 Seton Hall St. John's Duquesne Manhattan 1954 Holy Cross Duquesne Niagara Western Kentucky 1955 Duquesne Dayton Cincinnati Saint Francis (Pa.) 1956 Louisville Dayton Saint Joseph's St. Francis (N.Y.) 1957 Bradley Memphis Temple St. Bonaventure 1958 Xavier Dayton St. Bonaventure St. John's 1959 St. John's Bradley NYU Providence   1960 Bradley Providence Utah State St. Bonaventure 1961 Providence Saint Louis Holy Cross Dayton 1962 Dayton St. John's Loyola (Chicago) Duquesne 1963 Providence Canisius Marquette Villanova 1964 Bradley New Mexico Army NYU 1965 St. John's Villanova Army NYU 1966 Brigham Young NYU Villanova Army   1967 Southern Illinois Marquette Rutgers Marshall 1968 Dayton Kansas Notre Dame Saint Peter's 1969 Temple Boston College Tennessee Army   1970 Marquette St. John's Army LSU 1971 North Carolina Georgia Tech St. Bonaventure Duke 1972 Maryland Niagara Jacksonville St. John's 1973 Virginia Tech Notre Dame North Carolina Alabama 1974 Purdue Utah Boston College Jacksonville 1975 Princeton Providence Oregon St. John's 1976 Kentucky UNCC North Carolina State Providence 1977 St. Bonaventure Houston Villanova Alabama 1978 Texas North Carolina State Rutgers Georgetown 1979 Indiana Purdue Alabama Ohio State   1980 Virginia Minnesota Illinois UNLV 1981 Tulsa Syracuse Purdue West Virginia 1982 Bradley Purdue +Georgia +Oklahoma 1983 Fresno State DePaul +Nebraska +Wake Forest 1984 Michigan Notre Dame Virginia Tech Louisiana-Lafayette 1985 UCLA Indiana Tennessee Louisville 1986 Ohio State Wyoming Louisiana Tech Florida 1987 Southern Mississippi La Salle Nebraska Arkansas-Little Rock 1988 Connecticut Ohio State Colorado State Boston College 1989 St. John's Saint Louis UAB Michigan State   1990 Vanderbilt Saint Louis Penn State New Mexico 1991 Stanford Oklahoma Colorado Massachusetts 1992 Virginia Notre Dame Utah Florida 1993 Minnesota Georgetown UAB Providence 1994 Villanova Vanderbilt Siena Kansas State 1995 Virginia Tech Marquette Penn State Canisius 1996 Nebraska Saint Joseph's Tulane Alabama 1997 Michigan Florida State Connecticut Arkansas 1998 Minnesota Penn State Georgia Fresno State 1999 California Clemson Xavier Oregon   2000 Wake Forest Notre Dame Penn State North Carolina State 2001 Tulsa Alabama Memphis Detroit 2002 Memphis South Carolina Temple Syracuse 2003 St. John's Georgetown Texas Tech Minnesota 2004 Michigan Rutgers +Iowa State +Oregon 2005 South Carolina St. Joe's +Maryland +Memphis +Tied for third place