Postseason WNIT | 3/13/2023 1:38:52 PM
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FORT COLLINS, CO – The 2023 Postseason WNIT launches with a flourish this week, with times, dates and locations now secured for the 32 Round 1 games on the schedule.
This marks the 25
th edition of the Postseason WNIT, powered by Triple Crown Sports and first held in 1998. The tournament field is made up from automatic qualifiers from all 32 Division I conferences, as well as 32 at-large squads.
Round 1 schedule (all times ET):
Wednesday, March 15
Kent State at Syracuse, 7 p.m.
Missouri State at Nebraska, 7 p.m.
Thursday, March 16
Liberty at Bowling Green, 6 p.m.
Morgan State at Wake Forest, 6 p.m.
Penn at Richmond, 6 p.m.
Wofford at Florida, 6 p.m.
Belmont at Ball State, 6:30 p.m.
Colorado State at Northern Iowa, 7 p.m.
Drexel at Fordham, 7 p.m.
High Point at Clemson, 7 p.m.
Saint Joseph’s at Seton Hall, 7 p.m.
Towson at Harvard, 7 p.m.
UTEP at Texas Tech, 7 p.m.
Wichita State at Kansas State, 7 p.m.
Texas State at Stephen F. Austin, 7:30 p.m.
Illinois State at Missouri, 8 p.m.
Jackson State at Memphis, 8 p.m.
Little Rock at SMU, 8 p.m.
Louisiana Tech at Arkansas, 8 p.m.
Niagara at Green Bay, 8 p.m.
Long Beach State at San Diego, 9 p.m.
Northern Arizona at New Mexico, 9 p.m.
San Francisco at Washington, 10 p.m.
Friday, March 17
Boston at Rhode Island, 6 p.m.
Western Kentucky at Kansas, 6 p.m.
Fairleigh Dickinson at Columbia, 7 p.m.
UAlbany at UMass, 7 p.m.
Tulane at Auburn, 8 p.m.
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at Wyoming, 8:30 p.m.
Rice at BYU, 9 p.m.
UC Irvine at San Diego State, 9 p.m.
North Dakota State at Oregon, 10 p.m.
Here's the rest of the schedule for the 2023 event:
Round 2 - March 18-21
Round 3 - March 22-24
Quarterfinals - March 25-27
Semifinals - March 28-29
Championship - Saturday, April 1 at 5:30 p.m. ET (broadcast by CBS Sports Network)
All games are played at individual schools; the 2023 Postseason WNIT has 35 teams that won at least 20 games this season. Five teams in the tournament hail from the Atlantic 10; there are four teams each from the American, Atlantic Coast, Conference USA, Missouri Valley, Mountain West and Southeastern conferences. Three teams will make their run from the Big 12, Ivy, Mid-American and West Coast; two teams made the cut from the Big West and Pac 12.
In the 2022 Postseason WNIT championship game, South Dakota State topped Seton Hall, 82-50. Other recent title winners include Rice (2021), Arizona (2019), Indiana (2018) and Michigan in 2017, a game against Georgia Tech that went into triple overtime.
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