National Commissioners Invitational Tournament

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 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.

The tournament was won in 1974 by Indiana over USC, 85–60, in St. Louis, Missouri.

The 1974 tournament featured a collection of teams that came in second in their conferences due to NCAA Tournament rules at the time which only invited conference champions.