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National Women's Invitational Tournament

Field	Value
title	National Women's Invitational Tournament
sport	Basketball
founded	1969
last	1996
teams	8
country
most_champs	Wayland Baptist – 9
folded	1996
related_comps	Women's NIT
Women's Basketball Invitational
Founder	Unknown

Women's Basketball Invitational

The National Women's Invitational Tournament (NWIT) was a post-season tournament for women's intercollegiate basketball programs that was contested from 1969 to 1996. The original sponsorship information appears to have been lost over the ensuing years. After the NWIT folded in 1996, the concept was resurrected in 1998 by Triple Crown Sports under the same name, but the name was changed the following season to the Women's National Invitation Tournament (also known as the WNIT).

Format

Begun in the same year as the Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women's invitational tournament (which was assumed by the now-defunct Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women in 1972), the NWIT was an eight team, consolation bracket tournament held at the Amarillo Civic Center in Amarillo, Texas. Through 1974, the tournament included teams from both four-year colleges and junior colleges.

Championship history

Source:

Year	Champion	Runner-up
1969	Wayland Baptist	54
1970	Wayland Baptist	50
1971	Wayland Baptist	63
1972	Wayland Baptist	48
1973	Wayland Baptist	52
1974	Wayland Baptist	59
1975	Wayland Baptist	79
1976	Wayland Baptist	90
1977	Wayland Baptist	79
1978	Old Dominion	70
1979	South Carolina	74
1980	Oregon State	71
1981	Georgia	75*
1982	Oregon State	76
1983	New Orleans	68
1984	Vanderbilt	67
1985	LSU	74
1986	Idaho	100
1987	Arkansas	112
1988	DePaul	83
1989	Oregon	67
1990	Kentucky	85
1991	Santa Clara	71
1992	Georgia Tech	90
1993	Arkansas State	67
1994	Oklahoma	69
1995	Texas A&M	85
1996	Arizona	79

*Overtime

References

"Women's College Basketball Championship Page".

Wikipedia Source

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