Current season, competition or edition: 2024 Women's National Invitation Tournament | |
 Logo of the Women's National Invitational Tournament | |
| Sport | Basketball |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1994 (preseason) 1998 (postseason) |
| Founder | Triple Crown Sports |
| First season | 1994 (preseason) 1998 (postseason) |
| No. of teams | 16 (preseason) 48 (postseason) |
| Country |  United States |
| Most recent champion(s) | Texas Tech (preseason) Saint Louis (postseason) |
| TV partner(s) | CBS Sports Network |
| Related competitions | Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament Women's Basketball Invitational |
| Official website | www |
The Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) is a women's national college basketball tournament with a preseason and postseason version played every year. It is operated in a similar fashion to the men's college National Invitation Tournament (NIT) and NIT Season Tip-Off. Unlike the NIT, the women's tournament is not run by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), but is an independent tournament. Triple Crown Sports, a company based in Fort Collins, Colorado that specializes in the promotion of amateur sporting events,[1] created the WNIT in 1994 as a preseason counterpart to the then-current National Women's Invitational Tournament (NWIT). After the NWIT folded in 1996, Triple Crown Sports resurrected the postseason version in 1998 under the NWIT name, but changed the following season to the current name.[2]
- ^ "Triple Crown Sports - Home". www.triplecrownsports.com.
- ^ Cooper, Gregory. "Women's College Basketball Championship Page". womenscollegebasketballhistory.com.