FORT COLLINS, CO – On the strength of a record-setting season, the Utah Valley University women's basketball team has been selected to participate in the 27th annual Postseason WNIT, powered by Triple Crown Sports. The 48-team tournament gets underway on Thursday, March 20, with specific match-ups, dates, and times to be announced on Monday. 

The Wolverines have won a program record 18 games so far this season, their most as members of NCAA Division I, and just completed a trip to the WAC Tournament semifinals last Friday after a quarterfinal win over Abilene Christian, who is also among the at-large selections for the WNIT. Tarleton State was the WAC's automatic qualifier to the WNIT, with tournament runner-up UT Arlington giving the WAC four teams in the field. Other members of the field Utah Valley faced this year include Air Force and Alabama A&M, a team the Wolverines defeated by two at the San Diego's Thanksgiving tournament. 

Here's a look at the field for the 2025 Postseason WNIT:
Automatic Qualifiers*:
Army West Point (24-7) – Patriot
Bryant (17-14) – America East
Central Arkansas (23-9) – Atlantic Sun
Howard (21-11) – Mid-Eastern Athletic
Lindenwood (21-10) – Ohio Valley
Longwood (22-11) – Big South
Siena (17-13) – Metro Atlantic
Stonehill (17-15) – Northeast
Tarleton State (20-13) – Western Athletic
Texas Southern (16-15) – Southwestern Athletic
Troy (20-13) – Sun Belt
*-- Teams that were the highest regular-season finishers in their conference that did not receive a bid into the NCAA Tournament or WBIT.
At-Large:
Abilene Christian (20-12) – Western Athletic
Air Force (18-14) – Mountain West
Alabama A&M (21-10) – Southwestern Athletic
Buffalo (25-7) – Mid-American
Butler (15-17) – Big East
Campbell (21-12) – Coastal Athletic
Chattanooga (16-14) – Southern
Cleveland State (24-9) – Horizon
Coastal Carolina (23-8) – Sun Belt
Colgate (23-9) – Patriot
College of Charleston (24-7) – Coastal Athletic
Coppin State (18-14) – Mid-Eastern
Duquesne (19-12) – Atlantic 10
Illinois State (21-12) – Missouri Valley
Lamar (22-8) – Southland
Lipscomb (20-11) – Atlantic Sun
Louisiana Tech (16-15) – Conference USA
Miami OH (19-11) – Mid-American
Navy (19-11) – Patriot
New Mexico State (17-15) – Conference USA
North Dakota State (19-11) – Summit
North Texas (24-8) – American Athletic
Northwestern State (16-15) – Southland
Old Dominion (17-15) – Sun Belt
Pacific (15-18) – West Coast
Purdue Fort Wayne (25-8) – Horizon
Rutgers (11-19) – Big Ten
Saint Mary's (14-16) – West Coast
Southern Indiana (22-12) – Ohio Valley
Tulsa (17-14) – American Athletic
UAB (16-15) – American Athletic
UIC (14-17) – Missouri Valley
UIW (18-13) – Southland
UMass (16-14) – Atlantic 10
Utah Valley (18-12) – WAC 
UT Arlington (17-13) – Western Athletic
Washington State (20-13) – West Coast
 
Here's the schedule for the 27th edition of the Postseason WNIT:

Round 1 - March 20-22, 2025
Round 2 - March 23-25, 2025
Super 16 - March 26-28, 2025
Great 8 - March 29-31, 2025
Fab 4 - April 1-2, 2025
Championship - Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 3 p.m. ET (CBS Sports Network)

"Our longstanding belief has always been that women's college basketball demanded the respect that comes with a genuine postseason challenge outside the standard tournament," said Sarah Sullivan, WNIT director. "For more than a generation, we've been there to celebrate the determination and hard work of players, coaches and staff that helped make the sport so great. Others have tried to copy our model, but for pure excitement and the kind of competitive environment that lifts programs higher, the Postseason WNIT set the standard before the turn of the century."

Follow the 2025 Postseason WNIT:
X: @WomensNIT
Facebook: /womensNIT
Hashtag: #WNIT

About Triple Crown Sports
Based in Fort Collins, CO., Triple Crown Sports has been producing youth, high school and college events for more than 40 years. TCS runs the Postseason WNIT basketball event and produces the men's and women's DI Cancun Challenge tournaments in November. Triple Crown is also powering a "WNIT" concept event in D-I volleyball (NIVC), with that event debuting in 2017. Triple Crown's PV College Challenge features more than 10 of the top DI college softball teams in the country each year in Puerto Vallarta, MX. Anchored by the 1,300-team Colorado 4th of July event, TC fastpitch softball tournaments draw the nation's finest club programs, and hundreds of college coaches attend TCS events for recruiting purposes. TCS produces one of the largest youth baseball events in the world with the 700-team Omaha SlumpBuster during the College World Series. The Triple Crown Volleyball NIT has become the top-recruited club volleyball event in the country each February when 650 teams compete in Kansas City, MO.