Two programs looking for their first NCAA Tournament victory meet when LIU Brooklyn takes on Radford in the First Four on Tuesday night in Dayton, Ohio, with the winner moving on to face top seed Villanova two days later in the East Region at Pittsburgh. The Highlanders won their last seven contests, including the Big South title game, while the co-16th seeded Blackbirds are on a five-game win streak that ended with a Northeast Conference championship.

Top-seeded Baylor looks to get over the shock of missing the NCAA Tournament when it hosts No. 8 seed Wagner in the first round of the NIT on Tuesday. The Bears, who were one of the first four teams left out of March Madness, dropped four of their last five games to miss the NCAA Tournament for the first time in five years and hope to bounce back by rediscovering the formula which led them to the NIT title in 2013.

One of the most difficult seasons in Louisville’s history continues Tuesday when the Cardinals host Northern Kentucky in the opening round of the NIT, an event in which the players did not want to participate, according to published reports Monday. School administrators accepted the bid Sunday after Louisville was left out of the NCAA Tournament, but the Cardinals players reportedly had voted against an NIT trip before the ACC Tournament - where they lost to Virginia in the quarterfinals.

Boston College makes its first appearance in a national postseason tournament since 2011 when the Eagles begin play in the NIT on Tuesday night at Western Kentucky. Boston College, the fifth seed in its region, won two games before losing to Clemson in the ACC quarterfinals while fourth-seeded Western Kentucky lost 67-66 to Marshall in the Conference USA Championship game last week.

Florida Gulf Coast has a head start on second-seeded and host Oklahoma State in getting over the disappointment of missing the NCAA Tournament ahead of Tuesday's NIT first-round meeting. The seventh-seeded Eagles nearly erased a 32-point deficit in the Atlantic Sun Tournament final before falling to Lipscomb a week before Selection Sunday.

Notre Dame hosts eighth-seeded Hampton in the first round of the NIT on Tuesday night. The Fighting Irish were named one of four No. 1 seeds for the 32-team NIT after being confirmed as the final school left out of the NCAA Tournament, while the Pirates earned an automatic bid from winning the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference regular-season title.

UCLA makes its fifth trip to NCAA Tournament in six years and looks to win at least two games for the fourth straight time when it begins play against dangerous St. Bonaventure on Tuesday in the First Four at Dayton, Ohio - in a battle of 11th seeds to open the East Region. The Bruins lost three of their last five games, but gave red-hot Arizona all it could handle before losing in overtime at the Pac-12 semifinals.

Saint Mary's, one of the last four teams excluded from the NCAA Tournament, looks to overcome its disappointment in time for Tuesday’s matchup against visiting Southeastern Louisiana in the first round of the NIT. The top-seeded Gaels could receive a surprising test from No. 8 seed Southeastern Louisiana, which claimed a share of the Southland Conference title and led the league in scoring defense at 65.7 points per conference game.

Oregon was due for a bit of a letdown in 2017-18 following the loss of four starters who led the team to back-to-back 30-win seasons, and the lack of returning experience seemed to manifest itself in the number of close losses it suffered. The third-seeded Ducks hope to continue their maturation process Tuesday when they host No. 6 seed Rider in the first round of the NIT, with the winner advancing to play either Marquette or Harvard in the second round.

USC will try to move on after being left out of the NCAA Tournament field when the top-seeded Trojans host No. 9 UNC Asheville in the first round of the NIT on Tuesday night. USC finished second in the Pac-12 regular season standings and lost to Arizona in the finals of the conference tournament, but was passed up for an at-large bid.