
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, March 16, 1992                   TAG: 9203160127
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short

32 TEAMS MAKE UP NIT FIELD

Wisconsin-Green Bay, left out of the NCAA tournament despite 25 victories, was named to the 32-team field for the National Invitation Tournament on Sunday night.

Wisconsin-Green Bay (25-4) will play at Manhattan (23-8) in the opening round on Thursday.

Notre Dame and Villanova, both with 14-14 records, also got NIT Glance. B2 NIT bids. Notre Dame will play host to Western Michigan (21-8) on Wednesday, while Virginia (15-13) will visit Villanova.

In other first-round games Wednesday, it will be Alabama-Birmingham (20-8) at Tennessee (18-14); Western Kentucky (21-10) at Kansas State (15-13); Pittsburgh (17-15) at Penn State (21-7); and Minnesota (16-15) at Washington State (21-10).

On Thursday, it will be Butler (21-9) at Purdue (16-14); Richmond (22-7) at Florida (16-12); Rhode Island (20-9) at Vanderbilt (15-14); Southern Illinois (22-7) at Boston College (16-13); Long Beach State (18-11) at Texas Christian 22-10); Louisiana Tech (23-7) at New Mexico (18-12); Ball State (24-8) at Utah (20-10); and Arizona State (18-13) at UC Santa Barbara (20-8).

James Madison (20-10) will visit Rutgers (15-14) on Friday in the other opening-round game.

Second-round games will be played on March 23-24, with the quarterfinals on March 25-26, also at campus sites.

The semifinals on March 30 and championship game on April 1 will be held at New York's Madison Square Garden.

Keywords:
BASKETBALL

by CNB