BOCA RATON, Fla. – (March 18, 2019) –The Florida Atlantic University men’s basketball team has accepted a bid to play in the CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT). The Owls’ first round game will be versus Charleston Southern on Thursday, March 21 at the Buccaneer Field House in Charleston, South Carolina. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. Eastern. Live audio will be available on ESPN 106.3 FM, ESPNWestPalm.com or via smartphone using the free ESPN app.
“We are obviously very excited to receive an invitation to participate in the 2019 CIT. Having the opportunity to play in the postseason is a reward that our guys have both earned and deserve,” said FAU Head Coach Dusty May. “We have really enjoyed coaching this group and couldn’t be more excited to continue our season together in a postseason tournament.”
The postseason bid is the just the third in school history. FAU previously appeared in the 2002 NCAA Tournament and 2011 NIT.
FAU is in its first season under May, who was recently named a finalist for the Joe B. Hall Award as the best first year head coach in Division I. The Owls hold a 17-15 record and have clinched their first winning season since 2011.
CSU also has a 17-15 record and won six of its last seven games before falling to Radford in the semifinals of the Big South Tournament.
The CIT field is made up of non-Power 5 programs not selected to participate in the NCAA Tournament or NIT. All tournament games will be played on campus sites.
The CIT uses the old NIT model, with future round opponents determined by results of the previous round.
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Florida Atlantic University Athletics:
FAU Athletics is comprised of 21 intercollegiate teams involving 450 student-athletes that compete in baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track, volleyball, beach volleyball, cheer and dance. The Owls are a NCAA Division I-A (FBS) institution and compete in Conference USA and the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA) (beach volleyball, men’s swimming). The Owls have been playing football since 2001 and are a perfect 3-0 in bowl games, the most recent being a 50-3 victory over Akron in the 2017 Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl. The dance team finished its 2014 season No. 8, nationally. FAU cheer won a national championship in 2016.
About Florida Atlantic University:
Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University, with an annual economic impact of $6.3 billion, serves more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students at sites throughout its six county service region in southeast Florida. FAU’s world-class teaching and research faculty serves students through 10 colleges: the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. FAU is ranked as a High Research Activity institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University is placing special focus on the rapid development of critical areas that form the basis of its strategic plan: Healthy aging, biotech, coastal and marine issues, neuroscience, regenerative medicine, informatics, lifespan and the environment. These areas provide opportunities for faculty and students to build upon FAU’s existing strengths in research and scholarship. For more information, visit www.fau.edu.
