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Iona Gaels Women's Basketball
The Iona Gaels women's basketball team represents Iona University in New Rochelle, New York in NCAA Division I competition. The school's team competes in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC). History The Gaels beat Quinnipiac 79–76 to win their first ever MAAC title in 2016. They lost 74–58 to Maryland in the First Round of the 2016 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament. They have also made the Women's National Invitation Tournament in 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2014, going to the Second Round in 2007 and 2008. NCAA Division I appearances The Gaels have made two NCAA Division I Tournament appearances. They have a record of 0–2. WNIT appearances The Gaels have made the Women's National Invitation Tournament five times. They have a record of 2–5. Notable players * Þóranna Kika Hodge-Carr Notable coaches * Rose Marie Battaglia *Kent Washington Kent "Nut" Washington (born January 10, 1956) is an American former professional basketball player. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iona University
Iona University () is a private Catholic university with a main campus in New Rochelle, New York, United States. It was founded in 1940 by the Congregation of Christian Brothers and occupies a campus of in New Rochelle and a campus of in Bronxville, New York. Iona University offers more than 60 undergraduate programs and 45 graduate programs in the School of Arts & Science, LaPenta School of Business and the NewYork-Presbyterian Iona School of Health Sciences. It also offers graduate courses in Manhattan and has 14 study abroad programs. As of academic year 2018–2019, the institution enrolled approximately 4,000 undergraduate and graduate students from diverse backgrounds representing 35 states and 47 countries of origin. History In 1919, the administrators and board members of the Iona School—a grade school founded three years earlier by the Irish Christian Brothers—negotiated the purchase of an 18-acre parcel of land in New Rochelle's Beechmont neighborhood for $85 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2023 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 68 teams to determine the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college basketball national champion for the 2022–23 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The 41st edition of the tournament began on March 15, 2023, and concluded on April 2 with the championship game at the American Airlines Center in Dallas. Atlantic 10 champion Saint Louis, Big Sky champion Sacramento State, Southland champion Southeastern Louisiana, and WAC champion Southern Utah made their NCAA debuts. Tournament procedure A total of 68 teams participated in the 2023 tournament, consisting of the 32 conference champions, and 36 "at-large" bids to be extended by the NCAA Selection Committee. The last four at-large teams and teams seeded 65 through 68 overall played in First Four games, whose winners advanced to the 64 team first round. 2023 NCAA tournament schedule and ven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Marie Battaglia
Rose Marie Battaglia (1929 – November 24, 2020) was an American basketball coach. She coached at both high school and college levels, before retiring in 1989. She was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018. Biography Battaglia attended Panzer School of Physical Education. Panzer eventually combined with Montclair State University and became Montclair State Teacher College in 1958. She graduated from Montclair State in 1966 and then continued her education at the University of Utah and got her PhD. When Battaglia went back to school to get her PhD, she stopped teaching physical education but was still working. She taught others the game of basketball and ran her own clinics. Coaching career Battaglia began her coaching career at Paramus Catholic High School in New Jersey. While she coached here she had 274 victories and she won 2 straight state championships. While coaching at Paramus Catholic, she also coached at Bergen Community College, which was diagonally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Þóranna Kika Hodge-Carr
Þóranna Kika Hodge-Carr (born 18 July 1999) is an Icelandic basketball player for Valur and the Icelandic national team. She started her career with KeflavÃk in the Icelandic Úrvalsdeild kvenna where she won the national championship in 2017. Playing career First seasons and championship (2015–2020) After coming up through KeflavÃk junior teams, Þóranna played her first games in the top-tier Úrvalsdeild kvenna during the 2015–2016 season. She helped KeflavÃk to the national championship in 2017 when they beat three-time defending champions Snæfell in the Úrvalsdeild finals. The next season, she tore an anterior cruciate ligament in her knee. She bounced back the following season and averaged 9.4 points and 5.4 rebounds for KeflavÃk before the rest of the season and playoffs where canceled in March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic in Iceland. College career (2020–2025) In May 2020, Þóranna agreed to join the Iona College Iona University () is a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Women's National Invitation Tournament
The 2014 Women's National Invitation Tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 64 NCAA Division I teams that were not selected to participate in the 2014 Women's NCAA tournament. The annual tournament began on March 19 and ended on April 5. All games were played on the campus sites of participating schools. The Tournament was won by the Rutgers Scarlet Knights who defeated the UTEP Miners, 56–54, in the championship game before a sellout crowd of 12,222 at the Don Haskins Center in El Paso, Texas. Participants 64 teams were selected to participate in the 2014 WNIT. 32 teams received automatic berths into the tournament from being the highest-ranked team in their conference that failed to make the NCAA women's tournament. The other 32 teams earned at-large bids, by having a winning record but failing to make the NCAA Women's Tournament. Automatic qualifiers At-large bids Bracket Region 1 Home teams are listed first, unless noted. * = Overtime Colorado ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 Women's National Invitation Tournament
The 2013 Women's National Invitation Tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 64 NCAA Division I teams that were not selected to participate in the 2013 Women's NCAA tournament. The annual tournament began on March 20 and ends on April 6. All games were played on the campus sites of participating schools. It was won by the Drexel Dragons. Participants The following 64 teams are the teams selected to participate in the 2013 WNIT. 31 teams have earned automatic berths into the tournament from being the highest-ranked team in their conference that failed to make the NCAA women's tournament. 33 teams earned an at-large bid into the WNIT by having a winning record but failing to make the NCAA Women's Tournament. Automatic qualifiers At-large bids Final Four games Utah faced Kansas State in one semifinal of the WNIT played at Kansas State. Utah appeared to be in control early on, leading 21–7 with eight minutes to go in the first half, and still led by 12, 35 � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 Women's National Invitation Tournament
The 2010 Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) was a single-elimination tournament of 64 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I teams that did not participate in the 2010 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament. 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 N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Women's National Invitation Tournament
The 2008 Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) was a single-elimination tournament of 48 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I teams that did not participate in the 2008 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament. The 40th annual tournament was played from March 19, 2008, to April 5, 2008, 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. Marquette defeated Michigan State, 81–66, to win the tournament. Seeding Teams are not seeded in the WNIT. Rather, teams are placed into one of three tiers. Teams in the upper tier are spread around the bracket as best as possible, although not every upper tier team receives a first round bye. Lower tier and middle tier teams tend to meet in the first round, while upper tier teams will usually play winners of first-round games in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Women's National Invitation Tournament
The 2007 Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) was a single-elimination tournament of 48 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I teams that did not participate in the 2007 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament. The teams were deemed the "best of the rest" from the 31 Division I conferences were joined by 17 at-large selections. The final four of the tournament paired Wisconsin against Western Kentucky and Wyoming against 2006 WNIT champion Kansas State. Wisconsin (23–12) defeated Western Kentucky 79–72. Meanwhile, across the country, Wyoming and Kansas State played a triple-overtime thriller. The Cowgirls eventually pulled out the victory, holding Kansas State to a single point in the third overtime, and winning 89–79. The championship game of the WNIT was played Saturday, March 31, 2007, in front of 15,462 fans at the Arena-Auditorium in Laramie, Wyoming (the largest crowd in Wyoming Cowgirl History). Wyoming dominated the game an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 operated in a similar fashion to the men's college National Invitation Tournament (NIT) and NIT Season Tip-Off. Unlike the NIT, the women's tournament is not run by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), but is an independent tournament. Triple Crown Sports, a company based in Fort Collins, Colorado that specializes in the promotion of amateur sporting events, created the WNIT in 1994 as a preseason counterpart to the then-current National Women's Invitational Tournament (NWIT). After the NWIT folded in 1996, Triple Crown Sports resurrected the postseason version in 1998 under the NWIT name, but changed the following season to the current name. Format Preseason The WNIT began in 1994 as a 16-team preseason tournament; the preseason ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC, ) is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference affiliated with NCAA Division I. Its current 13 full members are located in five Northeastern states: Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York (state), New York. Members are all relatively small private institutions, a majority Catholic university, Catholic or formerly Catholic, with the only exceptions being two secular institutions: Rider University and Quinnipiac University. The MAAC currently sponsors 25 sports and has 17 associate member institutions. History The conference was founded in 1980 by six charter members: the United States Military Academy, U.S. Military Academy, Fairfield University, Fordham University, Iona College (New York), Iona College, Manhattan University, and Saint Peter's University, Saint Peter's College. Competition officially began the next year, in the sports of men's cross-country running, cross-country and men's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
