The 2019

Women's National Invitation Tournament The Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) is a women's national college basketball tournament. It used to feature both a preseason and postseason version played every year, but the preseason tournament was last held in 2023. It is operate ...

was a

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of 64

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teams that were not selected to participate in the 2019 Women's NCAA tournament. The tournament committee announced the 64-team field on March 18, following the selection of the NCAA Tournament field. The tournament began on March 20, 2019, and concluded on April 6, 2019, with the championship game televised on the

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. In the championship game, Arizona defeated Northwestern 56–42 to win the tournament.

Participants

The 2019 Postseason WNIT field consists of 30 automatic invitations – one from each conference – and 34 at-large teams. Utah and LSU declined their respective automatic invitations. The declined spots were filled as part of the at–large selection process. The intention of the WNIT Selection Committee was to select the best available at-large teams in the nation. Teams with the highest finishes in their conferences’ regular-season standings that were not selected for the NCAA Tournament were offered an automatic berth. The remaining berths in the WNIT were filled by the best teams available. Teams considered for an at–large berth have overall records of .500 or better.

Automatic qualifiers

At-large bids

Source:

Bracket

All times are listed as

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( UTC−4)
* – Denotes overtime period

Semifinals and Championship Game

Semifinals

Championship

All-tournament team

* Aari McDonald (Arizona), MVP * Cat Reese (Arizona) * Veronica Burton (Northwestern) * Lindsey Pulliam (Northwestern) * Jackie Benitez (James Madison) * Amy Okonkwo (TCU)

References

External links

Official website
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