Ball State University Athletics
Women's Hoops Hosts Kentucky Monday Night In WNIT
March 16, 2007 | Women's Basketball
MUNCIE, Ind. -- The Ball State women's basketball team will continue its season with a postseason appearance in the Women's National Invitation Tournament. The Cardinals received a bye in the first round of the tournament and will not open play until the second round.
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BSU was not awarded an at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament. For the first time, each of the nation's 31 conferences will be represented in the WNIT. The tournament expanded to 48 teams this year to accommodate an automatic berth for each of the conferences. The WNIT kicks off postseason action Wednesday, with first-round games. Sixteen teams will play in that round, and then feed into 16 second-round games. All games throughout the tournament are held on the campuses of participating schools, and no seeds are designated. Here are the 48 teams in the tournament: Automatic Berths Bucknell (Patriot) Coppin State (Mid-Eastern) Hofstra (Colonial) Iona (Metro Long Island (Northeast) Southern Illinois ( Stephen F. Austin (Southland) UC Tulane (Conference Virginia Tech (ACC) At-Large Berths Alabama-Birmingham Davidson Rice Seton Hall First Round (times TBD) Wednesday, March 14, 2007 Thursday, March 15 (times TBD) UC Long Island at Rice at Davidson at Alabama-Birmingham Stephen F. Austin at Coppin State at Bucknell at Game times will be announced Tuesday, March 13, by the WNIT. For more information, visit the website at www.womensnit.com ####
“We are disappointed, but we put the decision in someone else's hands and that's always a concern,” head coach Tracy Roller said. “We really felt like we had a great chance. We are going to regroup, and I feel good about our team and our chances in the WNIT.”
The Cardinals are 24-6 overall on the season and won the Mid-American Conference West Division title as they received an automatic bid into the WNIT. The Cardinals' 24 wins are tied for the most ever in a single season in program history. This is the third time that BSU has played in the WNIT and the first appearance since the 2003 tournament.
