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The first national Basketball tournament was the National Invitational Tournament, the NIT. It preceded the start of the NCAA tourney. The first year of the NCAA Basketball Tournament was 1939.

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Evanston, Illinois in 1939.

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At Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois

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