Thirty-two teams will begin their quests for the NIT title on Tuesday and Wednesday. The top seeds have the advantage on paper across the first three rounds since the games are hosted on campus sites.

Trying to prove the real inventor of the March Madness pool seems about as implausible as picking a perfect bracket

Could it really be true? That of all of college basketball’s urban myths, one of New York’s five boroughs is actually the birthplace of filling out an NCAA tournament bracket? Betting the bracket was the supposed brainchild of an Irish pub owner in Staten Island.