List of CBI Champions
The first College Basketball Invitational (CBI) took place in 2008, as a single-elimination meant to give more teams the opportunity to play in the postseason. The CBI currently selects 16 teams that were not already selected for the NCAA Tournament or NIT. All games are held at the arena of the designated home team and the Championship series switches to a best-of-three series (with two home games for the home team). Below is a list of CBI Champions, runners-up and the head coaches for each team:
| Year | CBI Champion / Head Coach | Runner-Up / Head Coach |
| 2008 | Tulsa | Bradley |
| Doug Wojcik | Jim Les | |
| 2009 | Oregon State | UTEP |
| Craig Robinson | Tony Barbee | |
| 2010 | VCU | Saint Louis |
| Shaka Smart | Rick Majerus | |
| 2011 | Oregon | Creighton |
| Dana Altman | Greg McDermott | |
| 2012 | Pittsburgh | Washington State |
| Jamie Dixon | Ken Bone | |
| 2013 | Santa Clara | George Mason |
| Kerry Keating | Paul Hewitt | |
| 2014 | Siena | Fresno State |
| Jimmy Patsos | Rodney Terry | |
| 2015 | Loyola (IL) | Louisiana-Monroe |
| Porter Moser | Keith Richard | |
| 2016 | Nevada | Morehead State |
| Eric Musselman | Sean Woods | |
| 2017 | Wyoming | Coastal Carolina |
| Allen Edwards | Cliff Ellis | |
| 2018 | North Texas | San Francisco |
| Grant McCasland | Kyle Smith | |
| 2019 | South Florida | DePaul |
| Brian Gregory | Dave Leitao | |
| 2020 |
tournament cancelled | |
| due to COVID-19 pandemic | ||
| 2021 |
Pepperdine | Coastal Carolina |
| Lorenzo Romar | Cliff Ellis | |
| 2022 |
UNC Wilmington | Middle Tennessee |
| Takayo Siddle | Nick McDevitt | |
| 2023 |
Charlotte | Eastern Kentucky |
| Ron Sanchez | A.W. Hamilton | |
| 2024 | Seattle | High Point |
| Chris Victor | Alan Huss | |
| 2025 |
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