Holding a 16-16 file after their first common season and convention match within the Large 12, the BYU Cougars ladies’s basketball workforce can be persevering with postseason play, they usually’ll accomplish that in a brand new match.
On Sunday night, the Cougars had been picked to play within the Girls’s Basketball Invitational Event, a 32-team occasion that can be thought-about the comfort match for groups that didn’t make the NCAA Event, simply because the NIT is on the boys’s aspect.
The WNIT will live on, however it isn’t owned solely by the NCAA.
BYU will open WBIT play unseeded and can face 4 seed Santa Clara of the WCC, its former convention, within the first spherical on Thursday at Santa Clara (solely the highest 16 groups acquired seeds, they usually had been seeded 1-4 within the 4 areas).
Tipoff time has not but been introduced. The winner of the sport will face the winner of top-seed Washington State and Lamar within the second spherical.
“We’re actually excited to increase our season and play within the first-ever WBIT,” BYU head coach Amber Whiting mentioned in a college information launch. “Taking part in within the postseason is at all times a purpose for our program and we’re excited for the chance to see how significantly better we will get within the subsequent three weeks.”
One different workforce from the Large 12, TCU, will play within the WBIT. The Horned Frogs will face North Texas within the first spherical.
Seven groups from the Large 12 made the NCAA Event.