WNIT Brackets Announced

[RabidRabbit]

SDSU Lady Jacks - First Transitional team to the post season in D-I

http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070313/NEWS/703130336

Where there is a LOT of FCS companions!

http://www.womensnit.com/Bracket%203-8-07.pdf

The Bunny board was hopping xhypedx xhypedx so much last nite, that it crashed xbangx xbangx

Good luck to all the FCS schools! Take down the BCS conference schools!

IL ST/SFA - Enjoy your road trip to Brookings! xnodx xnodx But here's xprost2x hoping that you'll be FROSTed out! :D

[bison95]

xthumbsupx xpeacex xsmileyclapx xsmileyclapx xsmileyclapx xhurrayx xhurrayx xhurrayx

Congrats Lady Jacks!!!

[TexasTerror]

IL ST/SFA - Enjoy your road trip to Brookings! xnodx xnodx But here's xprost2x hoping that you'll be FROSTed out! :D

You mean Rice instead of SFA? I'm a big Rice fan, second only to SHSU...

SFA hits Southern Illinois in Carbondale with a potential second round game against K-State...

[RabidRabbit]

You mean Rice instead of SFA? I'm a big Rice fan, second only to SHSU...

SFA hits Southern Illinois in Carbondale with a potential second round game against K-State...

Yep, My mistake.... xcoolx

Tho I at least had SFA playing a MoValley team!xnodx xlolx

[dbackjon]

Congrats to SDSU.


Wow - did Montana get screwed - should have been in the NCAA's - but has to play an opening round game in the WNIT.

That in-turn probably knocked NAU out of the WNIT. :mad:

[Peems]

on the damn selection show, they barely even talked about who got in and who got left out, it was basically let's talk about the top seeds and NC state.

[Lehigh Football Nation]

Bucknell got in xnodx

[griz37]

on the damn selection show, they barely even talked about who got in and who got left out, it was basically let's talk about the top seeds and NC state.

Does it matter if they talk about it? Either way the Griz are out. In 2 days when the tourney starts nobody will care that Syracuse or Drexel got left out, same goes for women's hoops. The fact of the matter is that the Griz had a chance to take it out of the committees hands & they couldn't get it done. You can't lose in the semi-finals in one of the low mid-major conferences & expect go get a bid. xtwocentsx

[mtgrizfan4life]

Congrats to SDSU.


Wow - did Montana get screwed - should have been in the NCAA's - but has to play an opening round game in the WNIT.

That in-turn probably knocked NAU out of the WNIT. :mad:


Welcome to life in the Big Sky! This conference sucks for basketball, and football is not like it once was. I am so ready to move onto the WAC.

[BigApp]

xeyebrowx a website crashed because of excitement over the Women's NIT??? xeyebrowx

[RabidRabbit]

xeyebrowx a website crashed because of excitement over the Women's NIT??? xeyebrowx

Yes, SDSUfans.com had record # of people viewing (130+) to see if the Lady Jacks would be the first SDSU team selected for a D-I post season tourney. Jacks were not eligible for the NCAA's as basketball is in the same transitional purguratory that football is in (think NDSU'06). xrulesx The WNIT, since it's independent of the NCAA, doesn't have to deal with the transitional guidelines, just whether the team was good enough to make the WNIT as an at-large selection. As a top 40 (in most polls) team, with only 5 losses (all top 100 teams) and victories xpeacex over Middle Tn St., SoCal, Virginia, Alabama, Kansas, Colorado, So. Ill., apparent the committee thought they were.

Brookings is looking forward to hosting our first D-I post season play. I'll bet that SDSU has the highest attendence at the WNIT second round (first round bye) this year. xthumbsupx

[Peems]

Does it matter if they talk about it? Either way the Griz are out. In 2 days when the tourney starts nobody will care that Syracuse or Drexel got left out, same goes for women's hoops. The fact of the matter is that the Griz had a chance to take it out of the committees hands & they couldn't get it done. You can't lose in the semi-finals in one of the low mid-major conferences & expect go get a bid. xtwocentsx

well i like to hear from the selection chair, or even from the analysts about certain teams that got in and some that didn't. I know the LG blew it, you don't have to tell me, i like analysis of all teams not just Tenn. and Duke. http://www.freesmileys.org/emo/sleep001.gif (http://www.freesmileys.org)

[wkuhillhound]

Congratulations to South Dakota State. Western Kentucky got a bye in the WNIT and will play Minnesota on 03/19 in Bowling Green! Hope to play y'all again in the WNIT championship. That would be great!

Here are the opening round scores and next round matchups:
03/14
Utah 78 Montana 70
Tulane 76 Jackson State 43
Minnesota 97 Illinois-Chicago 54

Team receiving byes:
Missouri
Oregon
Indiana
South Dakota State
Virginia Tech
Auburn
Illinois
Kansas State
Mississippi State
Western Kentucky
South Carolina
Hofstra
Virginia
South Florida
Wisconsin
Ball State

Next round matches:
Tulane vs. Mississippi State

Minnesota vs. Western Kentucky ====> Tough pill to swallow for WKU, Minnesota have been historically great over the last few years, definitely a challenge they can overcome.

Hartford/Bucknell vs. South Carolina

Seton Hall/Dartmouth vs. Hofstra

Charlotte/High Point vs. Virginia

St. Joseph's/Coppin State vs. South Florida

Arkansas State/Murray State vs. Wisconsin

Oakland/Kentucky vs. Ball State

Southern Illinois/Stephen F. Austin vs. Kansas State

Utah vs. Illinois

UAB/Davidson vs. Auburn

Western Carolina/East Tennessee State vs. Virginia Tech

Illinois State/Rice vs. South Dakota State

Iona/Long Island vs. Indiana

San Diego/UC Santa Barbara vs. Oregon

Wyoming/Nevada vs. Missouri

[Peems]

LG tough loss, but congrats on a great season. We expect much more for next year xthumbsupx

[RabidRabbit]

Congratulations to South Dakota State. Western Kentucky got a bye in the WNIT and will play Minnesota on 03/19 in Bowling Green! Hope to play y'all again in the WNIT championship. That would be great!

That'd be great! In fact, for my WNIT picks, that's who I picked to meet in Finals!

Would love to host the Hilltoppers at Frost!

[NDSUFREAK]

You know us BISON fans will be behind you all the way as you represent the Dakotas in DI post season play! xthumbsupx

[wkuhillhound]

Congratulations to South Dakota State. Western Kentucky got a bye in the WNIT and will play Minnesota on 03/19 in Bowling Green! Hope to play y'all again in the WNIT championship. That would be great!

That'd be great! In fact, for my WNIT picks, that's who I picked to meet in Finals!

Would love to host the Hilltoppers at Frost!

Western Kentucky got a tough draw though. If they can get through Minnesota on Monday then I feel that they can beat anyone.

xpeacex xthumbsupx

[bison95]

Western Kentucky got a tough draw though. If they can get through Minnesota on Monday then I feel that they can beat anyone.

xpeacex xthumbsupx
Minnesotaxconfusedx ??? Even the Bison Ladys took care of the Goofsxnodx

[RabidRabbit]

Minnesotaxconfusedx ??? Even the Bison Ladys took care of the Goofsxnodx

Yep, Goff's went down to both the XDSU's xthumbsupx

[RabidRabbit]

xsmiley_wix

South Dakota St. and W. Kentucky both host their 3rd round games VS. middle of the pack BCS schools, Indiana and MS. St, respectively. xthumbsupx
Hofstra plays at So. Carolina.
Hosting schools are winning over 80% of the games, so hopefully SDSU and WKU continue the trend and Hofstra bucks the trend.

Best of success to these 3 schools!

Good
Third Round Games
Wednesday, March 21
Hofstra at South Carolina, 7 p.m. ET
Thursday, March 22
Auburn at Virginia Tech, 7 p.m. ET
South Florida at Virginia, 7 p.m. ET
Indiana at South Dakota State, 7 p.m. CT
Illinois at Kansas State, 7 p.m. CT
Mississippi State at Western Kentucky, 7 p.m. CT
Kentucky at Wisconsin, 7 p.m. CT
Oregon at Wyoming, 7 p.m. MT

Second Round Results
Saturday, March 17
Hofstra 64, Seton Hall 52
Virginia Tech 74, Western Carolina 64
South Dakota State 61, Illinois State 48
Kansas State 72, Southern Illinois 46
Oregon 70, UCSB 54
Sunday, March 18
Auburn 74, UAB 60
Mississippi State 79, Tulane 73
South Carolina 81, Hartford 40
Wisconsin 77, Arkansas State 45
Wyoming 73, Missouri 67
Monday, March 19
Indiana 74, Iona 71
Virginia 74, Charlotte 72
Kentucky 85, Ball State 82
South Florida 66, Coppin State 49
Illinois 59, Utah 48
Western Kentucky 73, Minnesota 57

[wkuhillhound]

Hofstra defeats South Carolina 64 - 59 to advance to the Elite Eight. They will play the winner of the Mississippi State/Western Kentucky match tonight!

xthumbsupx xthumbsupx :) :) xnodx xnodx xpeacex xpeacex

[spelunker64]

Good luck Lady-Jacks!

[RabidRabbit]

Hofstra defeats South Carolina 64 - 59 to advance to the Elite Eight. They will play the winner of the Mississippi State/Western Kentucky match tonight!

xthumbsupx xthumbsupx :) :) xnodx xnodx xpeacex xpeacex

Congrats to Hofstra! First Elite 8 entrant for the WNIT xthumbsupx

WKU take down an SEC, and Jacks will go to take down a Big 10.xthumbsupx

To bad Hofstra & WKU will have to take down a fellow non-BCS team to get to the final four (assuming WKU continues winning ways at home).

Out of the 16 teams only four aren't from the big 6 BCS conferences.

Unfortunately 2 of the 4 will be gone by final 4 as they would face each other in the pairings from 8 to 4. xsmhx

SDSU is a bit excited as even the primary NDSU paper opines.

http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=160334&section=Columnists&columnist=Mike%20McFeely

[wkuhillhound]

Results from the Round of 16
Wednesday
Hofstra 64 South Carolina 59
Thursday
Auburn 81 Virginia Tech 73
Virginia 73 South Florida 71
South Dakota State 60 Indiana 53
Kansas State 66 Illinois 51
Western Kentucky 56 Mississippi State 53
Wisconsin 67 Kentucky 61
Wyoming 64 Oregon 62

Sunday's Quarterfinal matches
Virginia at Wisconsin
Auburn at Kansas State
Hofstra at Western Kentucky
South Dakota State at Wyoming

Semifinals matches
Hofstra/Western Kentucky winner vs. Virginia/Wisconsin winner
Auburn/Kansas State winner vs. South Dakota State/Wyoming winner

Championship game on March 31 2:00 CT

[dbackjon]

Congrats to Hofstra, WKU and SDSU!!

[RabidRabbit]

Final 4 of WNIT left, and only WKU of FCS standing.xbawlingx xbawlingx

Quarterfinals
Sunday, March 25
Wisconsin 84, Virginia 78
Kansas State 67, Auburn 54
Western Kentucky 72, Hofstra 54
Wyoming 70, South Dakota State 59

Hosting games are the difference in the WNIT. In the quarterfinals, the home team won every game.

Congrats to the Lady Jacks! xthumbsupx It was a magical run for the Transitional Rabbits!

[spelunker64]

Congrats wabbit women

[wkuhillhound]

Western Kentucky has to travel to Wisconsin to play in the WNIT Final Four hopefully they will come out on top on Wednesday night. Hopefully, the Lady Toppers can change the trend.

[RabidRabbit]

Western Kentucky has to travel to Wisconsin to play in the WNIT Final Four hopefully they will come out on top on Wednesday night. Hopefully, the Lady Toppers can change the trend.

Good Luck in Badger Land, Hilltoppers! xthumbsupx

Then, after the 11,293 fans (about 1200 Rabbit fans) at Wyoming, on top of the 7200+ for their Oregon Game, I have to believe that Wyoming will ride the high altitude, and fabulous crowds to host the Championship game! xrulesx

[wkuhillhound]

Western Kentucky loses to Wisconsin 72 - 79.xbawlingx xbawlingx

Western Kentucky finishes its season at (23 - 9). Wisconsin will face Wyoming in the championship games as it took 3 OTs to defeat Kansas State 89 - 78 in front of crowd of 12,225 beating its previous high against South Dakota State. Wisconsin would have been on the road regardless of whether Kansas State or Wyoming won the game.

[Peems]

Western Kentucky loses to Wisconsin 72 - 79.xbawlingx xbawlingx

Western Kentucky finishes its season at (23 - 9). Wisconsin will face Wyoming in the championship games as it took 3 OTs to defeat Kansas State 89 - 78 in front of crowd of 12,225 beating its previous high against South Dakota State. Wisconsin would have been on the road regardless of whether Kansas State or Wyoming won the game.

It's sad to know that the Lady Griz beat Wyoming TWICE, but couldn't get past the first round. Damn Home and Garden show!

[NE MT GRIZZ]

Wyoming has already sold 14,800 tickets out of 15,000 for the final game. The Cowgirls have played all 6 games at home and will probably gross over $1 million in ticket sales during the NIT.

They don't start any Seniors either.

[RabidRabbit]

It's sad to know that the Lady Griz beat Wyoming TWICE, but couldn't get past the first round. Damn Home and Garden show!

I suspect that Wyoming will win the championship by HOSTING ALL 5 GAMES! That high altitude and filled arena makes a world of difference.

IMHO, Jacks were Cowgirls equals but just had a diasterous night. K-State demonstrated that they were also right there with the Cowgirls going to 3 OT's.

Nice run for all 3 teams of Hofstra, WKU and SDSU.

WKU - Hope to see you again in future regular season games, those between the Toppers/Bunnies have been great games xthumbsupx

[wkuhillhound]

I suspect that Wyoming will win the championship by HOSTING ALL 5 GAMES! That high altitude and filled arena makes a world of difference.

IMHO, Jacks were Cowgirls equals but just had a diasterous night. K-State demonstrated that they were also right there with the Cowgirls going to 3 OT's.

Nice run for all 3 teams of Hofstra, WKU and SDSU.

WKU - Hope to see you again in future regular season games, those between the Toppers/Bunnies have been great games xthumbsupx

Couldn't agree with you more.

Hofstra and South Dakota State in the Elite Eight and Western Kentucky to the Final Four for the 2nd straight year. That is an incredible feat. Western Kentucky might just start a trend. Western Kentucky has 3 NCAA Final Fours and 2 WNIT Final Fours. Quite impressive. xcoffeex

[RabidRabbit]

I suspect that Wyoming will win the championship by HOSTING ALL 5 GAMES! That high altitude and filled arena makes a world of difference.

IMHO, Jacks were Cowgirls equals but just had a diasterous night. K-State demonstrated that they were also right there with the Cowgirls going to 3 OT's.

Nice run for all 3 teams of Hofstra, WKU and SDSU.

WKU - Hope to see you again in future regular season games, those between the Toppers/Bunnies have been great games xthumbsupx


The Cowgirls did indeed run the gauntlet at home to win the WNIT.

Wyoming 72, Wisconsin 56

[wkuhillhound]

Congratulations to the Wyoming Cowgirls, they definitely deserved it this year with their record setting crowds night after night. xthumbsupx

[spelunker64]

http://www.cowgirl.net/content/Cowgirl-U-with-riverhorse.jpg