26th Edition Of Postseason WNIT Kicks Off Wednesday

FORT COLLINS, CO – The 2024 Postseason WNIT and its 48-team bracket launches with a flourish this week, with times, dates and locations now secured for the 16 Round 1 games on the schedule.
 
This marks the 26th edition of the Postseason WNIT, powered by Triple Crown Sports and first held in 1998. The tournament field is made up of 11 automatic qualifiers and 37 at-large programs, flexing a mix of Power 4 conferences as well as ascending mid-major programs.
 
The Round 1 date/time schedule and the Round 2 bye opponents are as follows (NOTE – teams with first-round byes are not guaranteed to play at home in Round 2):
 

Wednesday, March 20

UAB at Southern Miss, 7 p.m. ET
Winner plays Murray State, TBA
 
Eastern Kentucky at Purdue Fort Wayne, 7 p.m. ET
Winner plays Cincinnati, TBA
 
Boise State at Montana, 9 p.m. ET
Winner plays North Dakota State, TBA
 
Thursday, March 21
Monmouth at Buffalo, 6 p.m. ET
Winner plays Duquesne, TBA
 
UAlbany at Colgate, 6 p.m. ET
Winner plays Providence, TBA
 
Bowling Green at Butler, 7 p.m. ET
Winner plays Purdue, TBA
 
Charleston at USC Upstate, 7 p.m. ET
Winner plays Illinois State, TBA
 
Stetson at Florida International, 7 p.m. ET
Winner plays Troy, TBA
 
Northern Colorado at UTSA, 7:30 p.m. ET
Winner plays Wyoming, TBA
 
Saint Louis at Central Arkansas, 7:30 p.m. ET
Winner plays Northern Iowa, TBA
 
Grambling at Oral Roberts, 8 p.m. ET
Winner plays Louisiana-Monroe, TBA
 
UIC at Southern Indiana, 8 p.m. ET
Winner plays Wisconsin, TBA
 
Cal Poly at Pacific, 9 p.m. ET
Winner plays Minnesota, TBA
 
Friday, March 22
Le Moyne at Niagara, 7 p.m. ET
Winner plays Vermont, TBA
 
UNC Greensboro at North Carolina A&T, 7 p.m. ET
Winner plays Old Dominion, TBA

UC Riverside at South Dakota, 8 p.m. ET
Winner plays Northern Arizona, TBA
 
Round 1 (in bracket order):
 
Cal Poly (17-13) at Pacific (18-14)
Boise State (21-13) at Montana (22-9)
Northern Colorado (15-15) at UTSA (17-14)
UC Riverside (18-13) at South Dakota (21-12)
Stetson (17-14) at Florida International (20-11)
UNC Greensboro (21-11) at North Carolina A&T (20-11)
UAB (18-13) at Southern Miss (18-13)
Grambling State (22-9) at Oral Roberts (21-10)
UAlbany (25-6) at Colgate (18-13)
Le Moyne (18-13) at Niagara (20-13)
Monmouth (21-9) at Buffalo (19-13)
Bowling Green (16-14) at Butler (14-16)
Eastern Kentucky (22-11) at Purdue Fort Wayne (21-12)
Saint Louis (16-18) at Central Arkansas (21-11)
Charleston (21-9) at South Carolina Upstate (16-15)
UIC (18-15) at Southern Indiana (24-6)

 
These 16 teams have first-round byes (alphabetical, not seeded):
 

Cincinnati (14-17)
Duquesne (20-12)
Illinois State (21-11)
Louisiana-Monroe (19-13)
Minnesota (16-15)
Murray State (20-11)
North Dakota State (21-11)
Northern Arizona (25-9)
Northern Iowa (16-15)
Old Dominion (22-9)
Providence (13-20)
Purdue (13-18)
Troy (19-11)
Vermont (22-11)
Wisconsin (13-16)
Wyoming (16-14)

 
Here’s the rest of the schedule for the tournament:

Round 2 - March 23-26, 2024
Round 3 - March 27-29, 2024
Quarterfinals - March 30-April 1, 2024
Semifinals - April 2-3, 2024

The 2024 Postseason WNIT will again have its championship game broadcast on CBS Sports Network, with tipoff set for Saturday, April 6, at 3 p.m. ET
 
All games are played at individual schools; the 2024 Postseason WNIT has 24 teams that won at least 20 games this season.
 
The 2024 Postseason WNIT bracket features four teams from the Missouri Valley and Sun Belt; three teams hail from the Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, Big Ten, Coastal and Summit, and two teams each will represent the American, America East, Atlantic 10, Big East, Big West, Mid-American and Mountain West. There’s a single team each out of the Big 12, Big South, Conference USA, Horizon, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Metro Athletic, Northeast, Southern, Southwestern Athletic and West Coast.
 
In the 2023 Postseason WNIT championship game, Kansas topped Columbia in front of 11,701 fans in Lawrence, KS., and in 2022, South Dakota State earned the crown by beating Seton Hall. 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.