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The WNIT announced the 48 teams that will be competing in the 2024 version of the tournament. With the introduction of the NCAA-run WBIT, the field shrank from 64 teams to 48, with 16 teams ...
The 2024 Women's National Invitation Tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 48 NCAA Division I women's college basketball teams that were not selected for the field of the 2024 Women's NCAA Tournament or the 2024 WBIT. The tournament committee announced the 48-team field on March 17, following the selection of the fields for the NCAA ...
The WNIT began in 1994 as a 16-team preseason tournament; the preseason version has remained at that field size throughout its history except for the 2021 event, which was reduced to eight teams due to ongoing COVID-19 issues. Originally, the preseason WNIT was a single-elimination tournament, but since the 2007 edition has used a format which ...
The tournament began on March 21 and ended on April 3. The first three rounds were played on campuses, with the semifinal and championship final played at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis . [ 1 ] It was the inaugural edition of the postseason Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament .
The WNIT is now the third-tiered postseason tournament and the NCAA does not run it. It began in 1994, starting as a preseason tournament before expanding to the postseason four years later.
FULL BRACKET: National Invitation Tournament scores, schedule, times, TV, streaming When are the 2024 NIT quarterfinals? 4 Georgia at 2 Ohio State, 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 26 ( ESPN )
This was the final WNIT to be held with a 64-team format. On July 17, 2023, WNIT operator Triple Crown Sports announced that the tournament would be reduced to 48 teams starting in 2024. This followed the NCAA 's announcement that it would launch the Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament , a 32-team direct parallel to the men's National ...
The existing non-NCAA postseason tournaments, the Women's National Invitation Tournament and Women's Basketball Invitational, are "pay-to-play" events where teams must pay a fee to the event sponsor, in addition to travel costs. [3] The "first four out" of the NCAA tournament will be the top four seeds of the WBIT.