2011 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament

2011 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament
Season	2010–11
Teams	24
Finals site	Hynes Athletic Center New Rochelle, NY
Champions	Santa Clara (1st title)
Runner-up	Iona (1st title game)
Semifinalists	SMU (1st semifinal) East Tennessee (1st semifinal)
Winning coach	Kerry Keating (1st title)
MVP	Kevin Foster Santa Clara
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The 2011 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) was a postseason single-elimination tournament of 24 NCAA Division I teams. The CIT began with 12 first round games. Four of the teams that won first-round games advanced to the quarterfinals, while the other eight teams played for the right to advance to the quarterfinals in the second round March 18–19. The announcement of the 2011 field was made on March 13, 2011.

Twenty-three of the participants were selected from teams that were not invited to the 2011 NCAA Tournament or the 2011 National Invitation Tournament.^[1] The winner of the 2011 Great West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, North Dakota, received an automatic bid to the CIT.

The tournament was won by Santa Clara who defeated Iona in the championship game 76–69. Santa Clara was not one of the four teams to receive a second-round bye thus becoming the first team to win five games to win the tournament championship.

Participating teams

The following teams have accepted a bid to the 2011 CIT:

School	Conference	Overall record	Conference record
Air Force[2]	Mountain West	15–15	6–10
Buffalo[3]	Mid-American	17–13	9–9
East Carolina[4]	Conference USA	18–15	8–8
East Tennessee State[5]	Atlantic Sun	22–11	16–4
Furman[6]	Southern	20–9	12–6
Hawai'i[7]	Western Athletic	18–12	8–8
Idaho[8]	Western Athletic	18–13	9–7
Iona	Metro Atlantic Athletic	22–11	13–5
Jacksonville[9]	Atlantic Sun	19–11	13–7
Marshall	Conference USA	22–11	10–8
North Dakota[10]	Great West	19–14	8–4
Northern Arizona[11]	Big Sky	19–12	9–7
Northern Iowa[12]	Missouri Valley	19–13	10–8
Ohio	Mid-American	18–15	10–8
Oral Roberts[13]	Summit	19–15	13–5
Portland[14]	West Coast	20–11	7–7
Quinnipiac[15]	Northeast	22–9	13–5
Rider[16]	Metro Atlantic Athletic	23–10	13–5
San Francisco[17]	West Coast	17–14	11–4
Santa Clara[18]	West Coast	19–14	8–6
Southern Methodist[19]	Conference USA	17–14	8–8
Tennessee Tech[20]	Ohio Valley	20–12	12–6
Western Michigan[21]	Mid-American	20–11	11–5
Valparaiso[22]	Horizon	23–11	12–6

Format

Twelve teams advanced from the first round games. Of the twelve remaining teams, four received byes into the quarterfinals. RPI, strength of schedule, conference ranking and geographic location determined the byes and seeding of the remaining twelve teams.^[23]

Bracket

• East Tennessee State, Iona, Northern Iowa and Ohio received byes to the quarterfinal round following their first round victories.

	First round March 14, 15 and 16				Second round March 18 and 19				Quarterfinals March 21 and 22				Semifinals March 25 and 26				Championship March 30
	North Dakota	67
	Air Force	77			Air Force	75
	Northern Arizona	63			Santa Clara	88
	Santa Clara	68							Santa Clara	95
	Idaho	73							San Francisco	91
	San Francisco	81			San Francisco	77
	Portland	64			Hawaiʻi	74
	Hawaiʻi	76											Santa Clara	72
	Jacksonville	71*											SMU	55
	East Carolina	66			Jacksonville	62
	Oral Roberts	57			SMU	63
	SMU	64*							SMU	57
									Northern Iowa	50
					Bye
	Rider	50			Northern Iowa
	Northern Iowa	84															Santa Clara	76
	Buffalo	75															Iona	69
	Quinnipiac	68			Buffalo	49
	Tennessee Tech	66			Western Michigan	48
	Western Michigan	74							Buffalo	63
									Iona	78
					Bye
	Iona	85			Iona
	Valparaiso	77											Iona	83
													East Tennessee State	80
					Bye
	Ohio	65			Ohio
	Marshall	64							Ohio	73
	Furman	63							East Tennessee State	82
	East Tennessee State	76			East Tennessee State
					Bye

Home teams are listed second.
* – Denotes overtime

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