Postseason WNIT | 3/17/2024 9:00:33 PM
FORT COLLINS, CO – Event officers with the 2024 Postseason WNIT have sifted by means of the information and are happy to announce the 48-team discipline that begins play this week, because the 26th version of the Postseason WNIT returns to acknowledge deserving packages with a championship chase like no different.
The roster of groups displays the depth and aggressive excellence discovered all through girls’s school basketball and attracts from Energy 5 notables and ascending mid-major conferences. Video games are performed at campus areas, serving to create distinctive and electrical environments for the ladies’s recreation that has led to exceptional record-breaking crowds over time – greater than 14,600 followers attended the 2019 championship recreation that includes Arizona and Northwestern in Tucson, AZ, and final 12 months’s title recreation in Lawrence, KS between Kansas and Columbia drew a crowd of 11,701.
The 2024 discipline options 11 automated qualifiers and 37 groups at-large alternatives, chosen after consideration of a mixture of standards by WNIT officers. There are 24 groups with 20 or extra victories within the bracket.
Right here’s the sector for the 2024 Postseason WNIT, which is produced by Triple Crown Sports activities (the official bracket with matchups and Spherical 1 recreation instances can be launched Monday, March 18):
Automated Qualifiers:
Colgate (18-13), Patriot
Grambling (22-9), Southwestern Athletic
Le Moyne (18-13), Northeast
Monmouth (21-9), Coastal Athletic
Niagara (20-13), Metro Athletic
Northern Arizona (25-9), Huge Sky
South Carolina Upstate (16-15), Huge South
Southern Indiana (24-6), Ohio Valley
Stetson (17-14), Atlantic Solar
UAlbany (25-6), America East
UNC Greensboro (21-11), Southern
At Giant Qualifiers:
Boise State (21-13), Mountain West
Bowling Inexperienced (16-14), Mid-American
Buffalo (19-13), Mid-American
Butler (14-16), Huge East
Central Arkansas (21-11), Atlantic Solar
Charleston (21-9), Colonial
Cincinnati (14-17), Huge 12
Duquesne (20-12), Atlantic 10
Japanese Kentucky (22-11), Atlantic Solar
Florida Worldwide (20-11), Convention USA
Illinois State (21-11), Missouri Valley
Louisiana-Monroe (19-13), Solar Belt
Minnesota (16-15), Huge Ten
Montana (22-9), Huge Sky
Murray State (20-11), Missouri Valley
North Carolina A&T (20-11), Colonial
North Dakota State (21-11), Summit
Northern Colorado (15-15), Huge Sky
Northern Iowa (16-15), Missouri Valley
Outdated Dominion (22-9), Solar Belt
Oral Roberts (21-10), Summit
Pacific (18-14), West Coast
Windfall (13-20), Huge East
Purdue (13-18), Huge Ten
Purdue Fort Wayne (21-12), Horizon
Saint Louis (16-18), Atlantic 10
South Dakota (21-12), Summit
Southern Miss (18-13), Solar Belt
Stephen F. Austin (22-12), Western Athletic
Troy (19-11), Solar Belt
UAB (18-13), American Athletic
UC Riverside (18-13), Huge West
UI-Chicago (18-15), Missouri Valley
UT San Antonio (17-14), American
Vermont (22-11), America East
Wisconsin (13-16), Huge Ten
Wyoming (16-14), Mountain West
“A lot has modified on the earth of girls’s basketball, however the Postseason WNIT is proud to be a trusted vacation spot for dozens of packages that acknowledge our dedication to respecting the game, and the way we’ve got been unwavering in that aim for 26 years,” stated Sarah Molina, director of the Postseason WNIT. “We look ahead to igniting the spark the occasion supplies to packages able to embrace the expertise – repeatedly we’ve seen success within the Postseason WNIT result in nice issues down the street.”
Right here’s the schedule for the match:
Spherical 1 – March 20-22, 2024
Spherical 2 – March 23-26, 2024
Spherical 3 – March 27-29, 2024
Quarterfinals – March 30-April 1, 2024
Semifinals – April 2-3, 2024
The 2024 Postseason WNIT will once more have its championship recreation broadcast on CBS Sports activities Community, with tipoff set for Saturday, April 6, at 3 p.m. ET.
Comply with the 2023 Postseason WNIT:
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Hashtag: #WNIT
About Triple Crown Sports activities
Primarily based in Fort Collins, CO., Triple Crown Sports activities has been producing youth, highschool and school occasions for greater than 40 years. TCS produces the boys’s and girls’s DI Cancun Problem tournaments in November and can be powering “WNIT” idea occasions in D-I softball (NISC) and volleyball (NIVC), with these two occasions debuting in 2017. Triple Crown’s PV Faculty Problem options two session of the highest DI school softball groups within the nation annually in Puerto Vallarta, MX. TC fastpitch tournaments (together with the 1,100-team Sparkler/Fireworks occasion) draw the nation’s most interesting membership packages, and lots of of faculty coaches attend TCS occasions for recruiting functions. TCS produces one of many largest youth baseball occasions on the earth with the 650-team Omaha SlumpBuster through the Faculty World Collection. The Triple Crown Volleyball NIT has develop into the top-recruited membership volleyball occasion within the nation every February when about 600 groups compete in Kansas Metropolis, MO.