CBI

The College Basketball Invitational (CBI) is a men's college basketball tournament created in 2007 by The Gazelle Group. The inaugural tournament occurred after the conclusion of the 2007–08 men's college basketball regular season. The CBI selects 16 teams that are not selected for the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament or the National Invitation Tournament (NIT), and who are willing to pay a $27,500 entry fee to participate. In the CBI, prior to 2020 teams competed on home courts. After the post-COVID pandemic revival, the tournament has been staged at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Florida. The CBI is a single-elimination tournament. Prior to 2020, the tournament was single elimination until the final two teams were determined, after which the championship was determined by a championship series with a best-two-out-of-three format. Since the tournament's 2021 revival and adoption of the single-site format, the championship is also determined by a single game. In 2023, the CBI introduced NIL funding of $40,000 to be distributed in the following manner: $25,000 to the champion, $10,000 to the runner-up, and $2,500 to each semifinalist.

CBI (College Basketball Invitational) je pozvánková basketbalová súťaž pre vysokoškolské tímy mužov z divízie I NCAA, ktoré sa nekvalifikovali na NCAA Tournament ani NIT. Turnaj bol prvýkrát usporiadaný v roku 2008 a odvtedy sa koná každý rok. CBI je považovaný za jeden z najmenej prestížnych pozvaných turnajov pre univerzitný basketbal mužov.

Turnaja sa zúčastňuje 16 tímov, ktoré sú rozdelené do štyroch regionálnych skupín. Každá skupina hrá dvojzápasový eliminačný turnaj, pričom víťazi skupín postupujú do celoštátneho semifinále. Semifinále a finále sa hrajú na jednom mieste.

CBI vyhrali tímy rôznych úrovní, od veľkých konferenčných tímov až po tímy zo stredných konferencií. Najúspešnejším tímom v histórii CBI je Wright State University, ktorá vyhrala turnaj dvakrát (v rokoch 2018 a 2021).