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

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. Through 1974, the tournament included teams from both four-year colleges and junior colleges.

Championship history

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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

Format

Championship history

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