The 2016

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 ...

is a

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of 64

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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

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. All games will be played on the campus sites of participating schools.

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. 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.

Automatic qualifiers

At-large bids

Bracket

All times are listed as

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( UTC-4).
* – Denotes overtime period.

Semifinals and championship game

All-tournament team

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, South Dakota (MVP) *

Maite Cazorla María Teresa Cazorla Medina (born 18 June 1997), known as Maite Cazorla, is a Spanish professional basketball player for the Perfumerias Avenida of Liga Endesa and the Spanish women's national basketball team. She was drafted with the twenty thir ...

, Oregon * Madison Ristovski, Michigan *

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, Florida Gulf Coast * Kaneisha Atwater, Florida Gulf Coast * Tia Hemiller, South Dakota Source:

References

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