Postseason WNIT | 3/12/2023 9:36:55 PM
FORT COLLINS, CO – Tournament officers have concluded weeks of analysis and cautious consideration Sunday with the announcement of the sector for the 25th Postseason WNIT, a powerful roster of 64 groups that displays the depth and aggressive excellence discovered all through ladies’s faculty basketball and attracts from Power 5 notables and ascending mid-major conferences.
The 2023 subject options 32 computerized qualifiers, that are groups which are the next-highest finishers of their convention’s common season that weren’t tabbed for the NCAA Tournament. The different 32 groups are at-large alternatives, chosen after consideration of a mixture of standards by WNIT officers.
Last 12 months’s Postseason WNIT champion, South Dakota State, was 28-5 this season, going 18-0 within the Summit Conference. Here’s the sector for the 2023 Postseason WNIT, which is produced by Triple Crown Sports:
AQ’s (32 – * denotes common season champion/co-champion)
Arkansas (21-12) – Southeastern
*Boston (24-8) — Patriot
Bowling Green (27-6) – Mid-American
*Columbia (23-5) – Ivy
*Fairleigh Dickinson (24-7) — Northeast
*Green Bay (27-5) – Horizon
High Point (17-14) – Big South
*Illinois State (24-8) – Missouri Valley
*Jackson State (21-9) – Southwestern Athletic
Kansas (19-11) – Big 12
Liberty (24-8) — Atlantic Sun
*Little Rock (21-10) – Ohio Valley
Memphis (20-10) – American Athletic
Morgan State (17-11) — Mid-Eastern Athletic
Nebraska (16-14) – Big Ten
Niagara (18-12) – Metro Atlantic Athletic
North Dakota State (18-11) – Summit
*Northern Arizona (21-13) – Big Sky
San Diego (17-13) – West Coast
Seton Hall (18-14) – Big East
*Stephen F. Austin (26-6) — Western Athletic
Syracuse (18-12) – Atlantic Coast
*Texas A&M Corpus Christi (19-11) – Southland
Texas State (23-9) – Sun Belt
*Towson (21-11) — Colonial Athletic
*UAlbany (22-11) – America East
*UC-Irvine (24-6) – Big West
*UMass (26-6) – Atlantic 10
Washington (15-14) – Pac 12
Western Kentucky (19-13) — Conference USA
*Wofford (22-9) – Southern
Wyoming (22-10) – Mountain West
At Large (32)
Auburn (15-14) – Southeastern
Ball State (25-8) – Mid-American
*Belmont (23-11) – Missouri Valley
BYU (16-16) – West Coast
Clemson (17-15) – Atlantic Coast
Colorado State (20-11) – Mountain West
Drexel (21-9) – Colonial Athletic
Florida (16-14) – Southeastern
Fordham (18-12) – Atlantic 10
Harvard (17-11) – Ivy
Kansas State (17-16) – Big 12
Kent State (21-10) – Mid-American
Long Beach State (23-9) – Big West
Louisiana Tech (19-12) – Conference USA
Missouri (17-13) – Southeastern
Missouri State (20-11) – Missouri Valley
New Mexico (20-12) – Mountain West
Northern Iowa (22-9) – Missouri Valley
Oregon (17-14) – Pac 12
Penn (17-11) – Ivy
*Rhode Island (24-6) – Atlantic 10
Rice (22-8) – Conference USA
Richmond (20-10) – Atlantic 10
Saint Joseph’s (20-10) – Atlantic 10
San Diego State (23-10) – Mountain West
San Francisco (19-12) – West Coast
SMU (16-12) – American
Texas Tech (18-14) – Big 12
Tulane (18-13) – American
UTEP (20-11) – Conference USA
Wake Forest (16-16) – Atlantic Coast
Wichita State (18-14) – American Athletic
There are 35 groups that received no less than 20 video games and 17 groups that both received or tied for first place of their convention’s regular-season slate. Here’s the schedule for the 2023 occasion:
Bracket launched with matchups, Round 1 recreation instances – Monday, March 13.
Round 1 – March 15-17
Round 2 – March 18-21
Round 3 – March 22-24
Quarterfinals – March 25-27
Semifinals – March 28-29
Championship – Saturday, April 1 at 5:30 p.m. ET (broadcast by CBS Sports Network)
“Postseason accomplishments can fuel some of the most powerful and deeply felt memories that college basketball programs will experience, and we are thrilled the WNIT has been on the job for 25 years to provide an avenue for players, coaches and fans to make the most of these opportunities,” mentioned WNIT director Johnna Pointer. “From the start, Triple Crown has elevated and appreciated the dedication found within women’s sports, and every indication suggests the 2023 Postseason WNIT will challenge the teams involved and keep fans on the edge of their seats.”
Follow the 2023 Postseason WNIT:
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About Triple Crown Sports
Based in Fort Collins, CO., Triple Crown Sports has been producing youth, highschool and faculty occasions for 40 years. TCS runs each the preseason and postseason WNIT basketball occasions and produces the boys’s and girls’s DI Cancun Challenge tournaments in November. Triple Crown can also be powering “WNIT” idea occasions in D-I softball (NISC) and volleyball (NIVC), with these two occasions debuting in 2017. Triple Crown’s PV College Challenge options 8-10 of the highest DI faculty 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 a whole lot 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 throughout the College World Series. The Triple Crown Volleyball NIT has turn out to be the top-recruited membership volleyball occasion within the nation every February when almost 600 groups compete in Kansas City, MO.
