2023 Women's National Invitation Tournament


The 2023 Women's National Invitation Tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 64 NCAA Division I women's college basketball teams that were not selected for the field of the [2023 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament|2023 Women's National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA Tournament]. The tournament committee announced the 64-team field on March 13, following the selection of the NCAA Tournament field. The tournament started March 15 and ended on April 1 with the championship game televised by CBSSN. Kansas won the tournament for the first time in program history.
This was the final WNIT to be held with a 64-team format. On July 17, 2023, WNIT operator Triple Crown Sports announced that the tournament would be reduced to 48 teams starting in 2024. This followed the NCAA's announcement that it would launch the Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament, a 32-team direct parallel to the men's National Invitation Tournament, starting in the 2023–24 season.

Participants

The 2023 postseason WNIT field consists of 32 teams that received automatic berths - one berth from each conference - and 32 at-large teams. All Division I teams were considered for at-large berths, including those who are independent and/or are in the transition process of reaching full NCAA Division I status. Automatic berths went to the highest-finishing team in its conference's regular-season standings, not selected for an NCAA Tournament berth. The remaining team slots were filled by the top teams available.

Automatic qualifiers

ConferenceSchool
America East
American
Atlantic 10
ASUN
ACCSyracuse
Big 12Kansas
Big East
Big Sky
Big South
Big TenNebraska
Big West
Colonial
C-USA
HorizonGreen Bay
Ivy LeagueColumbia
MAAC
MAC
MEAC
Missouri Valley
Mountain WestWyoming
Northeast
Ohio Valley
Pac-12Washington
Patriot
SECArkansas
Southern
SouthlandTexas A&M - Corpus Christi
SWAC
Summit LeagueNorth Dakota State
Sun BeltTexas State
WCC
WAC

Bracket

* – Denotes overtime period
- Denotes home team