2016 Women's National Invitation Tournament
The 2016 Women's National Invitation Tournament is a single-elimination tournament of 64 NCAA Division I teams that were not selected to participate in the 2016 Women's NCAA Tournament. The annual tournament began on March 16 and ended on April 2, with the championship game televised on CBS Sports Network.[1] All games will be played on the campus sites of participating schools.
Contents
1 Participants
1.1 Automatic qualifiers
1.2 At-large bids
2 Bracket
2.1 WNIT Semifinals and WNIT Championship Game
3 See also
4 References
Participants
The 2016 Postseason WNIT field will consist of 32 automatic invitations – one from each conference – and 32 (or more) at-large teams. The intention of the WNIT Selection Committee is to select the best available at-large teams in the nation. A team offered an automatic berth by the WNIT shall be the team that is the highest-finishing team in its conference’s regular-season standings, and not selected for the NCAA Tournament. A team that fulfills these qualities, and accepts, will earn the WNIT automatic berth for its conference, regardless of overall record. The remaining berths in the WNIT are filled by the best teams available. Any team considered for an at-large berth must have an overall record of .500 or better.[2] Should a conference’s automatic qualifier team decline the WNIT bid, the conference forfeits its AQ spot and that berth goes into the at-large pool. NC State and Arkansas qualified as invitees from the ACC and SEC respectively but each declined to participate.[3][4]
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Conference | School |
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America East | Maine |
American | Temple |
Atlantic 10 | Saint Louis |
Atlantic Sun | Florida Gulf Coast |
Big 12 | TCU |
Big East | Villanova |
Big Sky | Montana State |
Big South | Liberty |
Big Ten | Minnesota |
Big West | UC Riverside |
Colonial | Drexel |
C-USA | UTEP |
Horizon League | Milwaukee |
Ivy League | Harvard |
MAAC | Quinnipiac |
MAC | Ohio |
MEAC | Bethune-Cookman |
Missouri Valley | Northern Iowa |
Mountain West | Fresno State |
Northeast | Sacred Heart |
Ohio Valley | UT Martin |
Pac-12 | Oregon |
Patriot | Bucknell |
Southern | Mercer |
Southland | Abilene Christian |
SWAC | Southern |
Summit League | South Dakota |
Sun Belt | Arkansas State |
WCC | Saint Mary's |
WAC | Texas–Rio Grande Valley |
At-large bids
Conference | School |
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MAC | Akron |
SEC | Alabama |
MAC | Ball State |
MAC | Central Michigan |
C-USA | Charlotte |
Big East | Creighton |
Atlantic 10 | Dayton |
Missouri Valley | Drake |
MAC | Eastern Michigan |
CAA | Elon |
Big East | Georgetown |
ACC | Georgia Tech |
West Coast | Gonzaga |
CAA | Hofstra |
Big Ten | Iowa |
Summit | IUPUI |
Sun Belt | Little Rock |
Big West | Long Beach State |
C-USA | Marshall |
American | Memphis |
Big Ten | Michigan |
Big Ten | Nebraska |
Big Ten | Northwestern |
Big Ten | Rutgers |
WCC | San Diego |
WCC | Santa Clara |
American | Tulane |
Pac-12 | Utah |
Atlantic 10 | VCU |
ACC | Virginia |
ACC | Virginia Tech |
ACC | Wake Forest |
C-USA | Western Kentucky |
Horizon League | Wright State |
Bracket
All times are listed as Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4).
* – Denotes overtime period.
Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Quarterfinals | ||||||||||||
Gonzaga | 88 | ||||||||||||||
UC-Riverside | 54 | ||||||||||||||
Gonzaga | 77 | ||||||||||||||
Utah | 92 | ||||||||||||||
Utah | 95 | ||||||||||||||
Montana State | 61 | ||||||||||||||
Utah | 63 | ||||||||||||||
Oregon | 73 | ||||||||||||||
Oregon | 84 | ||||||||||||||
Long Beach State | 76 | ||||||||||||||
Oregon | 84 | ||||||||||||||
Fresno State | 59 | ||||||||||||||
Fresno State | 59 | ||||||||||||||
Santa Clara | 53 | ||||||||||||||
Oregon | 71 | ||||||||||||||
UTEP | 67 | ||||||||||||||
Saint Mary's | 73 | ||||||||||||||
Eastern Michigan | 74 | ||||||||||||||
Eastern Michigan | 81 | ||||||||||||||
TCU | 85 | ||||||||||||||
TCU | 97 | ||||||||||||||
UT Rio Grande Valley | 73 | ||||||||||||||
TCU | 70 | ||||||||||||||
UTEP | 79 | ||||||||||||||
Arkansas State | 68 | ||||||||||||||
Southern | 45 | ||||||||||||||
Arkansas State | 68 | ||||||||||||||
UTEP | 74 | ||||||||||||||
UTEP | 66 | ||||||||||||||
Abilene Christian | 62 | ||||||||||||||
Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Quarterfinals | ||||||||||||
Minnesota | 87 | ||||||||||||||
Milwaukee | 80 | ||||||||||||||
Minnesota | 89 | ||||||||||||||
South Dakota | 101 | ||||||||||||||
South Dakota | 74 | ||||||||||||||
Creighton | 68 | ||||||||||||||
South Dakota | 51 | ||||||||||||||
Northern Iowa | 50 | ||||||||||||||
Drake | 95 | ||||||||||||||
Sacred Heart | 59 | ||||||||||||||
Drake | 58 | ||||||||||||||
Northern Iowa | 64 | ||||||||||||||
Nebraska | 62 | ||||||||||||||
Northern Iowa | 64 | ||||||||||||||
South Dakota | 68 | ||||||||||||||
Western Kentucky | 54 | ||||||||||||||
Iowa | 72 | ||||||||||||||
Ball State | 77 | ||||||||||||||
Ball State | 57 | ||||||||||||||
St. Louis | 59 | ||||||||||||||
Saint Louis | 70 | ||||||||||||||
Arkansas Little-Rock | 69 | ||||||||||||||
St. Louis | 76 | ||||||||||||||
Western Kentucky | 78* | ||||||||||||||
Memphis | 73 | ||||||||||||||
Tennessee-Martin | 79 | ||||||||||||||
Tennessee-Martin | 57 | ||||||||||||||
Western Kentucky | 64 | ||||||||||||||
Western Kentucky | 89 | ||||||||||||||
Dayton | 72 | ||||||||||||||
Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Quarterfinals | ||||||||||||
Northwestern | 65 | ||||||||||||||
San Diego | 69 | ||||||||||||||
San Diego | 59 | ||||||||||||||
IUPUI | 48 | ||||||||||||||
Central Michigan | 55 | ||||||||||||||
IUPUI | 63 | ||||||||||||||
San Diego | 51 | ||||||||||||||
Michigan | 78 | ||||||||||||||
Michigan | 81 | ||||||||||||||
Wright State | 53 | ||||||||||||||
Michigan | 95 | ||||||||||||||
Bucknell | 72 | ||||||||||||||
Akron | 70 | ||||||||||||||
Bucknell | 74 | ||||||||||||||
Michigan | 77 | ||||||||||||||
Temple | 76 | ||||||||||||||
Quinnipiac | 90 | ||||||||||||||
Maine | 43 | ||||||||||||||
Quinnipiac | 62 | ||||||||||||||
Temple | 64 | ||||||||||||||
Drexel | 66 | ||||||||||||||
Temple | 74 | ||||||||||||||
Temple | 75 | ||||||||||||||
Ohio | 61 | ||||||||||||||
Ohio | 76 | ||||||||||||||
Marshall | 68 | ||||||||||||||
Ohio | 64 | ||||||||||||||
Virginia Tech | 57 | ||||||||||||||
Virginia Tech | 68 | ||||||||||||||
Elon | 59 | ||||||||||||||
Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Quarterfinals | ||||||||||||
Villanova | 67 | ||||||||||||||
Liberty | 51 | ||||||||||||||
Villanova | 72 | ||||||||||||||
Hofstra | 84 | ||||||||||||||
Hofstra | 75 | ||||||||||||||
Harvard | 70 | ||||||||||||||
Hofstra | 65 | ||||||||||||||
Virginia | 57 | ||||||||||||||
Rutgers | 57 | ||||||||||||||
Georgetown | 55 | ||||||||||||||
Rutgers | 55 | ||||||||||||||
Virginia | 71 | ||||||||||||||
VCU | 50 | ||||||||||||||
Virginia | 52 | ||||||||||||||
Hofstra | 46 | ||||||||||||||
Florida Gulf Coast | 61 | ||||||||||||||
Tulane | 53 | ||||||||||||||
Alabama | 52 | ||||||||||||||
Tulane | 64 | ||||||||||||||
Georgia Tech | 61 | ||||||||||||||
Georgia Tech | 73 | ||||||||||||||
Mercer | 56 | ||||||||||||||
Tulane | 61 | ||||||||||||||
Florida Gulf Coast | 73 | ||||||||||||||
Charlotte | 69 | ||||||||||||||
Wake Forest | 72 | ||||||||||||||
Wake Forest | 48 | ||||||||||||||
Florida Gulf Coast | 67 | ||||||||||||||
Florida Gulf Coast | 78 | ||||||||||||||
Bethune-Cookman | 51 | ||||||||||||||
WNIT Semifinals and WNIT Championship Game
WNIT Semifinals March 30–31 | WNIT Championship Game April 2, 2016 CBS Sports Network Vermillion, South Dakota | ||||||||
Oregon | 54 | ||||||||
South Dakota | 88 | ||||||||
South Dakota | 71 | ||||||||
Florida Gulf Coast | 65 | ||||||||
Michigan | 62 | ||||||||
Florida Gulf Coast | 71 | ||||||||
See also
- 2016 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament
- 2016 Women's Basketball Invitational
- 2016 National Invitation Tournament
References
^ "CBS SN to Televise WNIT Championship Game". Women's NIT. Triple Crown Sports. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
^ "Details announced for 2016 Postseason WNIT". WNIT. TripleCrownSports.
^ "NCAA selection committee snubs Triangle women's teams". newsobserver. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
^ "Dykes: No WNIT for Arkansas". Arkansas Online. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
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