2011 College Basketball Invitational
| Teams | 16 | ||||
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| Finals site | |||||
| Champions | Oregon Ducks (1st title) | ||||
| Runner-up | Creighton Bluejays (1st title game) | ||||
| Semifinalists |
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| Winning coach | Dana Altman (1st title) | ||||
| MVP | Joevan Catron (Oregon) | ||||
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The 2011 2011 NCAA Tournament nor the 2011 National Invitation Tournament. The opening round began Tuesday, March 15. A best-of-three championship series between the two teams in the final was held on March 28, March 30, and April 1.
The tournament was won by
Pacific-10 Conference
who entered the tournament with a losing record (Oregon State, 2009).
Coach Dana Altman, who was in his first year at Oregon, coached at Creighton the year before.
Participants
| School | Conference | Overall record |
Conference record |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austin Peay | Ohio Valley | 20–13 | 13–5 |
| Boise State | WAC | 20–12 | 10–6 |
| Creighton | Missouri Valley | 19–14 | 10–8 |
| Davidson | Southern | 17–14 | 10–8 |
| Duquesne | Atlantic 10 | 18–12 | 10–6 |
| Evansville | Missouri Valley | 15–15 | 9–9 |
| Hofstra | CAA
|
21–11 | 14–4 |
| James Madison | CAA
|
21–11 | 10–8 |
| Miami (OH) | MAC | 16–16 | 11–6 |
| Montana | Big Sky | 21–10 | 12–4 |
| Oregon | Pac-10
|
16–17 | 7–11 |
| Rhode Island | Atlantic 10 | 19–13 | 9–7 |
| San Jose State | WAC | 17–15 | 5–11 |
| St. Bonaventure | Atlantic 10 | 16–14 | 8–8 |
| UCF | Conference USA | 19–11 | 6–10 |
| Weber State | Big Sky | 18–13 | 11–5 |
Bracket
| First round March 15–16 | Quarterfinals March 21 | Semifinals (Reseeded) March 23 | Finals (Best of three) March 28, 30, April 1 | ||||||||||||||
| James Madison | 65 | ||||||||||||||||
| Davidson | 85 | ||||||||||||||||
| Davidson | 92 | ||||||||||||||||
| Creighton | 102 | ||||||||||||||||
| San Jose State | 74 | ||||||||||||||||
| Creighton | 85 | ||||||||||||||||
| Boise State | 71 | ||||||||||||||||
| Oregon | 79 | ||||||||||||||||
| Duquesne | 87 | ||||||||||||||||
| Montana | 76 | ||||||||||||||||
| Duquesne | 75 | ||||||||||||||||
| Oregon | 77 | ||||||||||||||||
| Weber State | 59 | ||||||||||||||||
| Oregon | 68 | ||||||||||||||||
| Oregon | 76 | 71 | 71 | ||||||||||||||
| Creighton | 84 | 58 | 69 | ||||||||||||||
| Hofstra | 70 | ||||||||||||||||
| Evansville | 77 | ||||||||||||||||
| Evansville | 69 | ||||||||||||||||
| Boise State | 75 | ||||||||||||||||
| Austin Peay | 80 | ||||||||||||||||
| Boise State | 83 | ||||||||||||||||
| UCF | 64 | ||||||||||||||||
| Creighton | 82 | ||||||||||||||||
| Miami (Ohio) | 59 | ||||||||||||||||
| Rhode Island | 76 | ||||||||||||||||
| Rhode Island | 54 | ||||||||||||||||
| UCF | 66 | ||||||||||||||||
| St. Bonaventure | 54 | ||||||||||||||||
| UCF | 69 | ||||||||||||||||
During the finals, Oregon hosted games 2 and 3.