Postseason WNIT | 3/18/2024 5:16:41 PM
Bracket
FORT COLLINS, CO
– The 2024 Postseason WNIT and its 48-team bracket launches with a flourish this week, with instances, dates and areas now secured for the 16 Spherical 1 video games on the schedule.
This marks the 26th version of the Postseason WNIT, powered by Triple Crown Sports activities and first held in 1998. The match area is made up of 11 computerized qualifiers and 37 at-large packages, flexing a mixture of Energy 4 conferences in addition to ascending mid-major packages.
The Spherical 1 date/time schedule and the Spherical 2 bye opponents are as follows (NOTE – groups with first-round byes usually are not assured to play at dwelling in Spherical 2):
Wednesday, March 20
UAB at Southern Miss, 7 p.m. ET
Winner performs Murray State, TBA
Japanese Kentucky at Purdue Fort Wayne, 7 p.m. ET
Winner performs Cincinnati, TBA
Boise State at Montana, 9 p.m. ET
Winner performs North Dakota State, TBA
Thursday, March 21
Monmouth at Buffalo, 6 p.m. ET
Winner performs Duquesne, TBA
UAlbany at Colgate, 6 p.m. ET
Winner performs Windfall, TBA
Bowling Inexperienced at Butler, 7 p.m. ET
Winner performs Purdue, TBA
Charleston at USC Upstate, 7 p.m. ET
Winner performs Illinois State, TBA
Stetson at Florida Worldwide, 7 p.m. ET
Winner performs Troy, TBA
Northern Colorado at UTSA, 7:30 p.m. ET
Winner performs Wyoming, TBA
Saint Louis at Central Arkansas, 7:30 p.m. ET
Winner performs Northern Iowa, TBA
Grambling at Oral Roberts, 8 p.m. ET
Winner performs Louisiana-Monroe, TBA
UIC at Southern Indiana, 8 p.m. ET
Winner performs Wisconsin, TBA
Cal Poly at Pacific, 9 p.m. ET
Winner performs Minnesota, TBA
Friday, March 22
Le Moyne at Niagara, 7 p.m. ET
Winner performs Vermont, TBA
UNC Greensboro at North Carolina A&T, 7 p.m. ET
Winner performs Previous Dominion, TBA
UC Riverside at South Dakota, 8 p.m. ET
Winner performs Northern Arizona, TBA
Spherical 1 (in bracket order):
Cal Poly (17-13) at Pacific (18-14)
Boise State (21-13) at Montana (22-9)
Northern Colorado (15-15) at UTSA (17-14)
UC Riverside (18-13) at South Dakota (21-12)
Stetson (17-14) at Florida Worldwide (20-11)
UNC Greensboro (21-11) at North Carolina A&T (20-11)
UAB (18-13) at Southern Miss (18-13)
Grambling State (22-9) at Oral Roberts (21-10)
UAlbany (25-6) at Colgate (18-13)
Le Moyne (18-13) at Niagara (20-13)
Monmouth (21-9) at Buffalo (19-13)
Bowling Inexperienced (16-14) at Butler (14-16)
Japanese Kentucky (22-11) at Purdue Fort Wayne (21-12)
Saint Louis (16-18) at Central Arkansas (21-11)
Charleston (21-9) at South Carolina Upstate (16-15)
UIC (18-15) at Southern Indiana (24-6)
These 16 groups have first-round byes (alphabetical, not seeded):
Cincinnati (14-17)
Duquesne (20-12)
Illinois State (21-11)
Louisiana-Monroe (19-13)
Minnesota (16-15)
Murray State (20-11)
North Dakota State (21-11)
Northern Arizona (25-9)
Northern Iowa (16-15)
Previous Dominion (22-9)
Windfall (13-20)
Purdue (13-18)
Troy (19-11)
Vermont (22-11)
Wisconsin (13-16)
Wyoming (16-14)
Right here’s the remainder of the schedule for the match:
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 sport broadcast on CBS Sports activities Community, with tipoff set for Saturday, April 6, at 3 p.m. ET
All video games are performed at particular person faculties; the 2024 Postseason WNIT has 24 groups that gained at the very least 20 video games this season.
The 2024 Postseason WNIT bracket options 4 groups from the Missouri Valley and Solar Belt; three groups hail from the Atlantic Solar, Large Sky, Large Ten, Coastal and Summit, and two groups every will characterize the American, America East, Atlantic 10, Large East, Large West, Mid-American and Mountain West. There’s a single crew every out of the Large 12, Large South, Convention USA, Horizon, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Metro Athletic, Northeast, Southern, Southwestern Athletic and West Coast.
Within the 2023 Postseason WNIT championship sport, Kansas topped Columbia in entrance of 11,701 followers in Lawrence, KS., and in 2022, South Dakota State earned the crown by beating Seton Corridor. Different latest title winners embody Rice (2021), Arizona (2019), Indiana (2018) and Michigan in 2017, a sport towards Georgia Tech that went into triple additional time.
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