After five straight NCAA Tournament appearances, Oregon will spend this postseason in the NIT.

The Ducks, 22-11 after advancing to the semifinal round of the Pac-12 Tournament, will host Rider in the opening round of the National Invitation Tournament at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Matthew Knight Arena.

Oregon is a No. 3 seed in the 32-team tournament; Rider, of Lawrenceville, New Jersey, is a No. 6 seed. The Broncs are 22-9 overall and were 15-3 in Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference play this season.

This will be the first meeting ever between the Ducks and the Broncs.

The Oregon-Rider winner will face either Marquette, a No. 2 seed, or Harvard, a No. 7 seed, on a date to be determined between March 16 and 19.

Oregon, which played in the NCAA Final Four last season, will be making its 11th NIT appearance and first since 2012. The Ducks have played in the NIT Final Four in New York City three times: in 1975, 1999 and 2004. The 2018 NIT Final Four is set for March 27 and 29 at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

There was no immediate word about television coverage of the Oregon-Rider game. The game is planned to be carried by ESPN3, ESPN’s online streaming service.

Notable NIT selections include four other teams from the Pac-12: USC, Utah, Stanford and Washington. Going into Sunday, USC was considered a strong candidate for the 68-team NCAA Tournament field, as were other teams that ended up in the NIT field such as Oklahoma State, St. Mary’s, Notre Dame and Louisville.

Southern California was caught off guard by Sunday’s NCAA snub.

The Trojans (23-11) finished second to Arizona in the Pac-12 this season and lost 75-61 to the Wildcats in the final of the conference tournament Saturday night. Coach Andy Enfield said he was shocked when his team was left out of the NCAA bracket.

“If all that matters is the quality of your best win or two on your schedule, then we shouldn’t even play and just set the field in December after the out-of-conference was complete,” he said. “It basically discredited our entire league schedule and no matter what we or some of the other teams in our league did during the Pac-12 or the conference tournament did not obviously matter.”

USC has won six of eight heading into Tuesday night’s game against UNC Asheville in its first NIT appearance since 1999. While it prepares for the Bulldogs, UCLA and Arizona State are headed for the NCAA Tournament despite finishing below the Trojans in the Pac-12 standings.

“We’re very disappointed,” Enfield said. “Our players deserve to be in the NCAA Tournament.”