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Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament
The Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament (WBIT) is a women's national college basketball tournament inaugurated in 2024. It is operated in a similar fashion to the men's college National Invitation Tournament (NIT) and is run by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The similarly-titled Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) is unaffiliated with the NCAA. Format The NCAA announced the creation of the WBIT on July 17, 2023, with the first edition held in 2024. The WBIT supplies an additional 32 funded opportunities for postseason play, providing gender parity to men's college basketball, which has the NCAA-owned NIT. The existing non-NCAA postseason tournaments, the Women's National Invitation Tournament and Women's Basketball Invitational, are "pay-to-play" events where teams must pay a fee to the event sponsor, in addition to travel costs. The "first four out" of the NCAA tournament will be the top four seeds of the WBIT. All regular season champions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024–25 Minnesota Golden Gophers Women's Basketball Team
The 2024–25 Minnesota Golden Gophers women's basketball team represented the University of Minnesota during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Golden Gophers, were led by second-year head coach Dawn Plitzuweit, and played their home games at Williams Arena as members of the Big Ten Conference. The Minnesota Golden Gophers ended the season winning the 2025 Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament (WBIT) over the Belmont Bruins. Minnesota was the sole Big Ten team invited to the 2025 WBIT. Previous season The Golden Gophers finished the 2023–24 season 20–16, 5–13 in Big Ten play to finish in a tie for eleventh place. As the No. 11 seed in the Big Ten tournament, they defeated Rutgers in the first round before losing in the second round to Michigan. They were invited to the WNIT to advanced to the championship game where they lost to Saint Louis. Offseason Departures Incoming Transfers 2024 Recruiting class Recruiting class of 2025 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butler University
Butler University is a private university in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Founded in 1855 and named after founder Ovid Butler, the university has over 60 major academic fields of study within six colleges in the arts, business, communication, education, liberal arts and the sciences, and health sciences. It enrolls approximately 5,700 undergraduate and graduate students. Its campus is approximately north of downtown Indianapolis. History On January 15, 1850, the Indiana General Assembly adopted Ovid Butler's proposed charter for a new Christian university in Indianapolis. After five years in development, the school opened on November 1, 1855, as North-Western Christian University at 13th Street and College Avenue on Indianapolis's near northside at the eastern edge of the present-day Old Northside Historic District. Attorney and university founder Ovid Butler provided the property."Butler University" in "Butler University Architecture" in Bodenhamer and Barrows, eds. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024–25 Villanova Wildcats Women's Basketball Team
The 2024–25 Villanova Wildcats women's basketball team represents Villanova University in the 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Wildcats, led by fifth-year head coach Denise Dillon, play their home games at the Finneran Pavilion in Villanova, Pennsylvania and were members of the Big East Conference. Previous season The Wildcats finished the 2023–24 season at 22–13 and 11–7 in Big East play, to finish in a tied for third place. As an No. 4 seed in the Big East tournament they lost in the quarterfinals to Marquette. They received an at-large bid to the WBIT where they defeated VCU and Virginia in the first and second rounds, Saint Joseph's in the quarterfinals and Penn State in the semifinals before losing to Illinois Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. It borders on Lake Michigan to its northeast, the Mississippi River to its west, and the Wabash River, Wabash and Ohio R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024–25 Florida Gators Women's Basketball Team
The 2024–25 Florida Gators women's basketball team represents the University of Florida during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Gators, led by fourth-year head coach Kelly Rae Finley, play their home games at the O'Connell Center and compete as members of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Previous season The Gators finished the season 16–16 (5–11 SEC) to finish in eleventh in the SEC and received a bid to the inaugural WBIT, where they lost to St. John's in the first round. Offseason Departures 2024 recruiting class Incoming transfer Roster Schedule , - !colspan=9 style="", Exhibition , - !colspan=9 style="", Non-conference regular season , - !colspan=9 style="", SEC regular season , - !colspan=9 style="", , - !colspan=9 style="", See also * 2024–25 Florida Gators men's basketball team References {{DEFAULTSORT:2024-25 Florida Gators women's basketball tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024–25 Belmont Bruins Women's Basketball Team
The 2024–25 Belmont Bruins women's basketball team represents Belmont University during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Bruins, led by eighth-year head coach Bart Brooks, play their home games at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tennessee as members of the Missouri Valley Conference. Previous season The Bruins finished the 2023–24 season 26–8, 17–3 in MVC play, to finish in second place. They would defeat UIC, before falling to Missouri State in the semifinals of the MVC tournament. They received an at-large bid to the WBIT, where they would defeat Ball State in the first round, before falling to Penn State in the second round. Preseason On October 1, 2024, the MVC released their preseason coaches poll. Belmont was picked to finish third in the MVC regular season. Preseason rankings Source: Preseason All-MVC Teams Source: Roster Schedule and results , - !colspan=12 style="", Non-conference regular season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament
The 2025 Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament (WBIT) was a single-elimination tournament of 32 NCAA Division I women's college basketball teams not selected to participate in the 2025 NCAA tournament. The tournament began on March 20 and ended on April 2. The first three rounds were played on the campuses of various schools, and the semifinal and championship games were played at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Minnesota Golden Gophers won the 2025 WBIT over the Belmont Bruins. Minnesota was the sole Big Ten team invited to the 2025 WBIT. Big Ten Conference, March 16, 2025 Participants Teams and pairings for the 2025 WBIT were released by the WBIT committee on Sunday, March 16, 2025. Thirty–two teams qualified for the WBIT, including ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023–24 Washington State Cougars Women's Basketball Team
The 2023–24 Washington State Cougars women's basketball team represented Washington State University during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Cougars were led by sixth-year head coach Kamie Ethridge and they played their home games at Beasley Coliseum as members of the Pac-12 Conference. They were invited to compete in the inaugural 2024 WBIT as a number one seeded team. This would be final season as Pac-12 member as they will join West Coast Conference as affiliate member for the next two years. Previous season The Cougars 23–11, 9–9 in Pac-12 play to finish in a seventh place. They defeated California, Utah, Colorado and UCLA to win their first ever Pac-12 women's tournament to receive an automatic bid to the NCAA women's tournament. They received the number 5 seed in the Greenville Regional 2. They were upset in the first round by number 12 seed Florida Gulf Coast. Offseason Departures Incoming Recruiting Roster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023–24 Penn State Lady Lions Basketball Team
The 2023–24 Penn State Lady Lions basketball team represented Pennsylvania State University during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Lady Lions were led by fifth-year head coach Carolyn Kieger and played their home games at the Bryce Jordan Center in State College, Pennsylvania as members of the Big Ten Conference. Previous season The Lady Lions finished the season 9–15 and 6–12 in Big Ten play, to finish in a tie for twelfth place. As the 13th seed in the Big Ten tournament, they defeated Minnesota in the first round before losing to Michigan in the second round. Offseason Departures Incoming transfers Recruiting There was no recruiting class of 2023. Roster Schedule and results , - !colspan=10 style="", Regular season , - !colspan=9 style="", , - !colspan=9 style="", Source: Rankings The Coaches Poll did not release a Week 2 poll and the AP poll did not release a poll aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023–24 Villanova Wildcats Women's Basketball Team
The 2023–24 Villanova Wildcats women's basketball team represented Villanova University in the 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Wildcats, led by 4th-year head coach Denise Dillon, played their home games at the Finneran Pavilion in Villanova, Pennsylvania and were members of the Big East Conference. Previous season The 2022–23 Villanova Wildcats women's basketball team, Wildcats finished the 2022–23 NCAA Division I women's basketball season, 2022–23 season at 30–7 and 17–3 in Big East play, to finish in second place. They advanced to the championship game of the 2023 Big East women's basketball tournament, Big East women's tournament where they lost to 2022–23 UConn Huskies women's basketball team, UConn. They received an at-large bid to the 2023 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament, NCAA women's tournament as a 4th seed in Greensboro region 2 where they defeated 2022–23 Cleveland State Vikings women's basketball team, Cleveland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
