In 2023-24 it was the WNIT, a tournament that, in postseason terms, comes after the NCAA and WBIT in prestige. This season they took a step up by getting to, and winning, the WBIT title game.

The NCAA Tournament field is set, but that's not the only postseason tournament happening in women's hoops. The field for the 2025 Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament − Or WBIT − is set ...

Green leaned on her senior class to help fulfill the goal of using the WBIT as a catapult to the NCAA Tournament, despite injuries nearly derailing the season with Lety Vasconcelos (knee), Cook ...

ESPN will serve as the television broadcast partner for all WBIT games, with ESPN+ airing preliminary round games, while the semifinals will air on ESPNU and the finals on ESPN2. In addition ...

Oregon State knocked off Portland in the title game. Portland (29-4) opens the WBIT at No. 2 Stanford (16-14). Gonzaga and Portland were automatic qualifiers to the WBIT as WCC co-champs.

Belmont (26-12) played in the NCAA tournament in six of the previous eight seasons, reaching the second round in 2021 and 2022. This is the Bruins' second straight season in the WBIT. They lost to ...

The Gophers haven't played in the NCAA Tournament since 2017-18, but Plitzwueit has led the program to a Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) runner-up finish and now a WBIT championship ...

Qualification for the WBIT gave the Gophers a chance to redeem their disappointing season. Besides an overtime thriller against Gonzaga University, the Gophers proved throughout the WBIT that they ...

Why it matters: This is the second time in three years that head coach Shauna Green has led the Illini to an NCAA Tournament, and Illinois won the inaugural WBIT championship last season.

Colorado's status as a No. 1 seed in the WBIT indicates it was one of the first four teams left off the bracket. "We didn't make the field of 68 for the NCAA Tournament, and we earned that," Payne ...

The Texas Tech women's basketball season isn't over yet. The Lady Raiders will play at No. 4 seed Wyoming in the first round of the Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament, the NCAA announced Sunday.