Arizona, Duke headline NIT Season Tip-Off

Sep 17, 2013, 7:36 PM | Updated: 7:37 pm

The Arizona Wildcats and Duke Blue Devils are the presumptive top teams who will play in the NIT Season Tip-Off Tournament.

The bracket, which was released Tuesday, has the Wildcats as the top seed facing Fairleigh Dickinson in the first round on Nov. 18 at the McKale Center in Tucson.

Also in their side of the bracket is fourth-seeded Rutgers, fifth-seeded Rhode Island, sixth-seeded Elon, eighth-seeded Drexel and Metro State.

On the other side of the bracket sit Duke (2), Alabama (3), East Carolina (7), along with Stillman College, McNeese State, UNC Asheville and Norfolk State.

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