The 2018 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) was a postseason single-elimination tournament of NCAA Division I basketball teams.
[1] The field was composed of participants who belong to "mid-major" conferences and who were not invited to the NCAA tournament, the National Invitation Tournament, or the College Basketball Invitational.
The following teams received an invitation to the 2018 CIT: The CIT uses the old NIT model in which there is no set bracket.
In 2016, the CIT introduced the Coach John McLendon Classic as the first "Classic" game to ever be played during a postseason tournament.
For 2017, the CIT introduced three more "Classic" games, for a total of four, all to be played in the first round.