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The 2010
Women's National Invitation Tournament The Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) is a women's national college basketball tournament with a preseason and postseason version played every year. It is operated in a similar fashion to the men's college National Invitation Tournam ...
(WNIT) is a
single-elimination tournament A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final matc ...
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National Collegiate Athletic Association The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges an ...
(NCAA) Division I teams that did not participate in the
2010 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament The 2010 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament started Saturday, March 20, 2010 and was completed on Tuesday, April 6 of the same year with University of Connecticut Huskies defending their title from the previous year by defeating Stanf ...
. The tournament is played entirely on campus sites. The highest ranked team in each conference that did not receive a bid to the NCAA Tournament received an automatic bid to this tournament. The remaining slots were filled by the WNIT Selection Committee.


2010 Preseason WNIT

At the beginning of the season, there is a Preseason WNIT.


Round 1

*The games for round one were played on November 13.


Bracket 1

*New Mexico 81, Northern Colorado 59 *Florida Gulf Coast 66, UTEP 54 *Georgia Tech 63, Winthrop 30 *Oklahoma State 67, Arkansas Little-Rock 58


Bracket 2

*Ohio State 91, Eastern Illinois 68 *Bowling Green 76, Chicago State 41 *Marist 80, North Carolina A&T 64 *West Virginia 79, Towson 42


Round 2

*The games for round one were played on November 15 and 16.


Bracket 1

*New Mexico 80, Florida Gulf Coast 64 *Oklahoma State 70, Georgia Tech 64


Bracket 2

*Ohio State 91, Bowling Green 72 *West Virginia 55 Marist 50


Semifinals and finals

Note: Asterisk denotes home team


Consolation rounds


Rounds 1&2

*Friday, Nov. 20 **North Carolina A&T 62, Chicago State 57 **UTEP 84, Eastern Illinois 80 **Towson 56, Winthrop 46 **Arkansas-Little Rock 55, Northern Colorado 43 *Saturday, Nov. 21 **Chicago State 45, Winthrop 41 **Eastern Illinois 74, Northern Colorado 70 **Towson 74, NCA&T 69 **UALR 64, UTEP 40


Round 3

*Saturday, November 21 **Marist 70, Bowling Green 65 **Georgia Tech 58, Florida Gulf Coast 48


2010 Postseason WNIT

The 2010
Women's National Invitation Tournament The Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) is a women's national college basketball tournament with a preseason and postseason version played every year. It is operated in a similar fashion to the men's college National Invitation Tournam ...
(WNIT) was a
single-elimination tournament A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final matc ...
of 64
National Collegiate Athletic Association The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges an ...
(NCAA) Division I teams that did not participate in the
2010 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament The 2010 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament started Saturday, March 20, 2010 and was completed on Tuesday, April 6 of the same year with University of Connecticut Huskies defending their title from the previous year by defeating Stanf ...
. The 42nd annual tournament was played from March 17, 2010 to April 3, 2010, entirely on campus sites. The highest ranked team in each conference that did not receive a bid to the NCAA Tournament received an automatic bid to this tournament. The remaining slots were filled by the WNIT Selection Committee.


Participants


Automatic bids


At-Large bids


Brackets

Results to date ''(* indicates game went to overtime)'':


Region 1


Region 2


Region 3


Region 4


Semifinals and championship game


All-tournament team

*
Alexis Gray-Lawson Alexis Amber Gray-Lawson (born April 21, 1987) is a basketball player who most recently played for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association. She was the 2010 recipient of the Frances Pomeroy Naismith award, which is pr ...
, California (MVP) * DeNesha Stallworth, California *
Shenise Johnson Shenise Johnson (born December 8, 1990) is an American basketball player. Born in Rochester, New York, Johnson went to Rush–Henrietta Senior High School in Henrietta and played collegiately for the University of Miami. She was drafted by the S ...
, Miami (FL) *
Riquna Williams Riquna "Bay Bay" Williams (born May 28, 1990) is an American basketball player for the Las Vegas Aces of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played collegiately for the Miami Hurricanes of the University of Miami, where she ma ...
, Miami (FL) * Nicolle Lewis, Illinois State * Veronica Hicks, Michigan Source:


See also

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2010 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament The 2010 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 65 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball as a culmination of the 2009–10 basketball seaso ...
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2010 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament The 2010 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament started Saturday, March 20, 2010 and was completed on Tuesday, April 6 of the same year with University of Connecticut Huskies defending their title from the previous year by defeating Stanf ...
* 2010 National Invitation Tournament *
2010 Women's Basketball Invitational The 2010 Women's Basketball Invitational (WBI) was a single-elimination tournament of 16 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I teams that did not participate in the 2010 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament or 201 ...


References

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Women's National Invitation Tournament The Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) is a women's national college basketball tournament with a preseason and postseason version played every year. It is operated in a similar fashion to the men's college National Invitation Tournam ...
Women's National Invitation Tournament
Women's National Invitation Tournament The Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) is a women's national college basketball tournament with a preseason and postseason version played every year. It is operated in a similar fashion to the men's college National Invitation Tournam ...
Women's National Invitation Tournament The Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) is a women's national college basketball tournament with a preseason and postseason version played every year. It is operated in a similar fashion to the men's college National Invitation Tournam ...
Women's National Invitation Tournament The Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) is a women's national college basketball tournament with a preseason and postseason version played every year. It is operated in a similar fashion to the men's college National Invitation Tournam ...