Happening Hoops CBI/CIT Bracketology #2 2022

By: Ethan Hennessy

It’s mid-January and with conference play well underway let’s take a look at how I see the landscape of the CBI and CIT fields currently. If you are new here I predict the fields of the College Basketball Invitational and CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournaments. This is my fifth season doing this. I have a career 87% accuracy rate (111/128).

Yearly breakdown

2018: 75% (27/36)

2019: 93% (39/42)

*2020: 88% minimum *It was later determined three days from Selection Sunday (at the time of the cancelations) I had already correctly predicted 37 of the would-be 42 teams confirmed in the fields.

2021: 100% (8/8)

CBI (16 teams)

Saint Joe’s Region (East)

• Saint Joe’s (7-6 A10)
• Illinois State (8-6 MVC)
• Harvard (8-5 Ivy)
• Loyola MD (9-6 Patriot)

Liberty Region (Midwest)

• Liberty (11-6 ASUN)
• Coastal Carolina (9-6 Sun Belt)
• Morehead State (10-5 OVC)
• Samford (11-4 SoCon)

East Carolina Region (South)

• East Carolina (10-4 American)
• Fordham (8-5 A10)
• Longwood (8-5 Big South)
• Howard (6-6 MEAC)

Vanderbilt Region (West)

• Vanderbilt (9-6 SEC)
• San Jose State (7-6 MW)
• Utah Valley (11-4 WAC)
• UC San Diego (7-6 Big West)

CIT (26 teams)

East

• Merrimack (8-8 NEC)
• Boston (11-6 Patriot)
• Towson (11-5 CAA)
• UMass Lowell (9-6 America East)
• Army (9-7 Patriot)

Midwest

• Indiana State (8-7 MVC)
• SIU (9-5 MVC)
• Kansas City (8-6 Summit)
• St. Thomas (8-8 Summit)
• Western Illinois (10-6 Summit)
• Wright State (8-7 Horizon)
• Youngstown State (9-7 Horizon)

South

• ETSU (10-7 SoCon)
• Nichols State (10-7 SoCon)
• Georgia Southern (8-6 Sun Belt)
• Louisiana Monroe (9-7 Sun Belt)
• Stephen F Austin (10-5 WAC)
• College of Charleston (9-5 CAA)
• Bellarmine (8-8 ASUN)
• North Alabama (8-8 ASUN)
• Winthrop (8-6 Big South)

West

• Air Force (8-5 MW)
• Portland (9-6 WCC)
• California Baptist (10-4 WAC)
• UC Davis (7-4 Big West)
• UC Riverside (7-5 Big West)

If you have off the record news you wish to tell me regarding a team and one of these tournaments I can be reached by DM on Twitter @HappeningHoops or by email at HappeningHoops@gmail.com