College Basketball Invitational
The College Basketball Invitational (CBI ) is a swept annual invitational tournament in basketball in the area of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA) organized high school sports in the United States. It was held in 2008 for the first time and is organized by the resident in Princeton, New Jersey sports marketing firm The Gazelle Group. Main sponsor since 2013, the American company General Motors owned car brand Buick.
At the CBI, which will be played in the postseason in March or April, take part 16 teams that will be selected and invited based on their performance in the regular season. The definition of the teams takes place after notification of the participants in the NCAA national championship and since 2005 also organized by the National Invitation Tournament NCAA, both of which are considered to be prestigious, especially given the decades-long tradition.
The CBI will take place in the knockout system, in which each unsubscribe in the eighth, quarter and semi-finals, the two teams involved in a game. The final will take place in the best-of -three mode as Championship Series, which wins the one team that decides first two games of its own. Venue of all games are the venues of the teams involved.