NIT锦标赛是全美最早的大学篮球锦标赛，也是将大学篮球推上高峰的一项重要赛事。

NIT锦标赛的历史远比现存的NCAA一级男子篮球锦标赛久远，是在1938年由纽约的一群篮球作家和媒体记者所发动成立的。

它在第一年虽只有六队参赛，但规模愈来愈大，一度是比NCAA锦标赛更受重视的赛事。原本NIT锦标赛都在纽约市举行，自1977年起，前几轮的比赛改在各地举行，最后四强才移到纽约市。目前，NIT每年邀请未能参加NCAA锦标赛的32所学校参加。

2010 Dayton North Carolina Chris Johnson, Dayton

2009 Penn State Baylor Jamelle Cornley, Penn State

2008 Ohio State Massachusetts Kosta Koufos, Ohio State

2007 West Virginia Clemson Frank Young, West Virginia

2006 South Carolina 密歇根州 Renaldo Balkman, South Carolina

2005 South Carolina Saint Joseph's Carlos Powell, South Carolina

2004 Michigan Rutgers Daniel Horton, Michigan

2003 St. John's + Georgetown None ++

2002 Memphis South Carolina Dajuan Wagner, Memphis

2001 Tulsa 阿拉巴马红腹龟 Marcus Hill, Tulsa

2000 Wake Forest Notre Dame Robert O'Kelley, Wake Forest

1999 加利福尼亚州 Clemson Sean Lampley, Cal

1998 Minnesota ^ Penn State None ^^

1997 密歇根大学 * Florida State None **

1996 内布拉斯加州 Saint Joseph's Erick Strickland, Nebraska

1995 Virginia Tech Marquette Shawn Smith, Virginia Tech

1994 Villanova Vanderbilt Doremus Bennerman, Siena

1993 Minnesota Georgetown Voshon Lenard, Minnesota

1992 Virginia Notre Dame Bryant Stith, Virginia

1991 Stanford Oklahoma Adam Keefe, Stanford

1990 Vanderbilt Saint Louis Scott Draud, Vanderbilt

1989 St. John's Saint Louis Jayson Williams, St. John's

1988 Connecticut Ohio State Phil Gamble, UConn

1987 Southern Miss La Salle Randolph Keys, Southern Miss

1986 Ohio State Wyoming Brad Sellers, Ohio State

1985 加州大学 Indiana Reggie Miller, UCLA

1984 密歇根州 Notre Dame Tim McCormick, Michigan

1983 Fresno State DePaul Ron Anderson, Fresno State

1982 Bradley Purdue Mitchell Anderson, Bradley

1981 Tulsa Syracuse Greg Stewart, Tulsa

1980 Virginia Minnesota Ralph Sampson, Virginia

1979 Indiana Purdue Butch Carter and Ray Tolbert, Indiana

1978 Texas N.C. State Jim Krivacs and Ron Baxter, Texas

1977 St. 波拿文都拉 Houston Greg Sanders, St. Bonaventure

1976 Kentucky Charlotte Cedric Maxwell, Charlotte

1975 Princeton Providence Ron Lee, Oregon

1974 Purdue Utah Mike Sojourner, Utah

1973 Virginia Tech Notre Dame John Shumate, Notre Dame

1972 Maryland Niagara Tom McMillen, Maryland

1971 North Carolina Georgia Tech Bill Chamberlain, North Carolina

1970 Marquette St. John's Dean Meminger, Marquette

1969 Temple Boston College Terry Driscoll, BC

1968 Dayton Kansas Don May, Dayton

1967 Southern Illinois Marquette Walt Frazier, S. Illinois

1966 BYU NYU Bill Melchionni, Villanova

1965 St. John's Villanova Ken McIntyre, St. John's

1964 Bradley New Mexico Levern Tart, Bradley

1963 Providence Canisius Ray Flynn, Providence

1962 Dayton St. John's Bill Chmielewski, Dayton

1961 Providence Saint Louis Vin Ernst, Providence

1960 Bradley Providence Lenny Wilkens, Providence

1959 St. John's Bradley Tony Jackson, St. John's

1958 Xavier Dayton Hank Stein, Xavier

1957 Bradley Memphis State Win Wilfong, Memphis State

1956 Louisville Dayton Charlie Tyra, Louisville

1955 Duquesne Dayton Maurice Stokes, St. Francis (人民军)

1954 Holy Cross Duquesne Togo Palazzi, Holy Cross

1953 Seton Hall St. John's Walter Dukes, Seton Hall

1952 La Salle Dayton Tom Gola and Norm Grekin, La Salle

1951 BYU Dayton Roland Minson, BYU

1950 CCNY Bradley Ed Warner, CCNY

1949 San Francisco Loyola Don Lofgran, San Francisco

1948 Saint Louis NYU Ed Macauley, Saint Louis

1947 Utah Kentucky Vern Gardner, Utah

1946 Kentucky Rhode Island Ernie Calverley, Rhode Island

1945 DePaul Bowling Green George Mikan, DePaul

1944 St. John's DePaul Bill Kotsores, St. John's

1943 St. John's Toledo Harry Boykoff, St. John's

1942 West Virginia Western Kentucky Rudy Baric, West Virginia

1941 LIU Ohio Frankie Baumholtz, Ohio

1940 Colorado Duquesne Bob Doll, Colorado

1939 LIU Loyola Bill LLOYD, St. John's

1938 Temple Colorado Don Shields, Temple