Larry Brown, SMU land NIT's No. 1

Terps will find out NIT seeding when they receive a bid Sunday night. Find out how to watch.

The Hoosiers did not receive an invitation to this year's NIT, the 32-team competition one rung below its NCAA counterpart in the college basketball postseason. Indiana was passed over, though Big Ten foes Minnesota and Illinois made the field. IU made

Larry Brown's Mustangs were left out of the NCAA Tournament field, but they will be a 1 seed in the 2014 NIT. When the NCAA Tournament selection committee announced the field of 68, the SMU Mustangs were left on theĀ 

After the NCAA tourney announced its field Sunday night, the NIT did the same. Illinois and Minnesota made the field, with the latter earning the top overall seed. Indiana, which was eligible for the tourney, did not make it.

Illinois' eight-game losing streak all but ensured the team would not make the NCAA tournament. The consolation prize, a season after advancing to the round of 32 last year, is a No. 2 seed in the NIT. The Illini (19-4) face Boston on the road on