2015 College Basketball Invitational

College basketball tournament August 2023 CBI 2015 150px 16 Joseph J. Gentile ArenaFant–Ewing Coliseum Chicago, IllinoisMonroe, Louisiana Loyola-Chicago Ramblers 1st Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks 1st Seattle Redhawks 1st Vermont Catamounts 1st Porter Moser 1st Earl Peterson Loyola-Chicago 30,963 The 2015 College Basketball Invitational (CBI) was a single-elimination tournament of 16 NCAA Division I teams that did not participate in the NCAA tournament or the NIT. The opening games and the quarterfinals were held in mid-March on the home courts of participating teams. After the quarterfinals, the bracket were reseeded. A best-of-three championship series between the two finalist teams was held,http://www.gazellegroup.com/pdf/cbi15.pdf Gazellegroup.com 2015 CBI Tournament https://web.archive.org/web/20150404010525/http://www.gazellegroup.com/pdf/cbi15.pdf 2015-04-04 mdy-all with Loyola-Chicago winning the title with a two-game sweep. One change from this year's CBI Tournament was the use of a 30-second shot clock (instead of a 35-second clock). Participants The following teams were announced as participants Sunday, March 15 after the NCAA Selection Show. TeamConferenceOverall recordConference recordColoradoPac-12 15–17 7–11Delaware StateMEAC 18–17 9–7Eastern MichiganMAC 21–13 8–10Gardner–WebbBig South 20–14 10–8HofstraCAA 20–13 10–8Louisiana–MonroeSun Belt 21–12 15–7Loyola-ChicagoMVC 19–13 8–10MercerSoCon 18–15 12–6Oral RobertsSummit 18–14 10–6PepperdineWCC 18–13 10–8RadfordBig South 21–11 12–6RiderMAAC 21–11 15–5SeattleWAC 16–15 7–7Stony BrookAmerica East 23–11 12–4UC Santa BarbaraBig West 19–13 11–5VermontAmerica East 18–13 12–4 Declined invitations The following programs declined to participate in the 2015 CBI:Felts Andrew Declining CBI Bid was the Right Decision for TCU https://www.frogsowar.com/2015/3/17/8235383/declining-cbi-bid-was-the-right-decision-for-tcu SB Nation March 12, 2018 March 17, 2015 30em California Florida Florida State Indiana Kansas State Memphis Minnesota Northwestern Oregon State Penn State Pittsburgh South Carolina TCU Tennessee Schedule Source:CBS Sports CBI Scores Date Time* Matchup Television Score Attendance First round March 17 8:00 pm Rider at Loyola–Chicago ESPN3 59–62 1,105 March 18 7:00 pm Vermont at Hofstra 85–81 958 7:00 pm Stony Brook at Mercer ESPN3 70–72 2,432 8:00 pm Radford at Delaware State 78–57 1,038 8:00 pm Eastern Michigan at Louisiana–Monroe 67–71 3,003 8:00 pm UC Santa Barbara at Oral Roberts 87–91 1,687 9:00 pm Gardner–Webb at Colorado P12 Digital 78–87 1,280 10:00 pm Pepperdine at Seattle WAC Digital 45–62 999 Quarterfinals March 23 7:00 pm Louisiana–Monroe at Mercer ESPN3 71–69 2,677 7:00 pm Radford at Vermont NSN 71–78 2,252 8:00 pm Oral Roberts at Loyola-Chicago ESPN3 78–86 1,225 10:00 pm Colorado at Seattle WAC Digital 72–65 999 Semifinals March 25 8:00 pm Vermont at Louisiana–Monroe 65–71 3,368 8:00 pm Seattle at Loyola-Chicago ESPN3 48–63 1,265 Finals March 30 8:00 pm Louisiana–Monroe at Loyola-Chicago CBSSN 58–65 2,215 April 1 8:00 pm Loyola-Chicago at Louisiana–Monroe CBSSN 63–62 4,460 All game times in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Winning team in bold. Bracket 0 y 1/1/1/3 First roundMarch 17–18 QuarterfinalsMarch 23 Semifinals(Reseeded)March 25 Finals(Best of three)March 30, April 1 UC Santa Barbara 87 Oral Roberts 91 Rider 59 Loyola-Chicago 62 Gardner–Webb 78 Colorado 87 Pepperdine 45 Seattle 62 Eastern Michigan 67 Louisiana–Monroe 71 Stony Brook 70 Mercer 72 Radford 78 Delaware State 57 Vermont 85 Hofstra 81 Oral Roberts 78 Loyola-Chicago 86 Colorado 65 Seattle 72 Louisiana–Monroe 71 Mercer 69 Radford 71 Vermont 78 Seattle 48 Loyola-Chicago 63 Vermont 65 Louisiana–Monroe 71 Loyola-Chicago 65 63 – Louisiana–Monroe 58 62 – Home teams listed second. References College Basketball Invitational Category:College Basketball Invitational