The National Women's Invitational Tournament (NWIT) was a post-season tournament for women's intercollegiate basketball programs that was contested from 1969 to 1996. The original sponsorship information appears to have been lost over the ensuing years. After the NWIT folded in 1996, the concept was resurrected in 1998 by Triple Crown Sports under the same name, but the name was changed the following season to the
Women's National Invitation Tournament (also known as the WNIT).
Format
Begun in the same year as the
Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women's invitational tournament (which was assumed by the now-defunct
Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women
The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) was a college athletics organization in the United States, founded in 1971 to govern women's college competitions in the country and to administer national championships (see AIAW Cham ...
in 1972), the NWIT was an eight team, consolation bracket tournament held at the
Amarillo Civic Center in
Amarillo, Texas
Amarillo ( ; Spanish language, Spanish for "yellow") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Potter County, Texas, Potter County, though most of the southern half of the city extends into Randall County, Texas, Randall County ...
. Through 1974, the tournament included teams from both four-year colleges and junior colleges.
Championship history
''Source:''
*Overtime
See also
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NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship
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NCAA Women's Division II Basketball Championship
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NCAA Women's Division III Basketball Championship
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Women's National Invitation Tournament
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Women's Basketball Invitational
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NAIA Women's Basketball Championships
The NAIA women's basketball tournament has been held annually by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics since 1981 NAIA women's basketball tournament, 1981 to determine the national champion of women's college basketball among its ...
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AIAW women's basketball tournament
References
{{Women's National Invitation Tournament
Postseason college basketball competitions in the United States
College women's basketball competitions in the United States
Recurring sporting events established in 1969