2026 Women's National Invitation Tournament

The 2026 Women's National Invitation Tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 48 NCAA Division I women's college basketball teams that were not selected for the field of the 2026 NCAA tournament or the 2026 WBIT. The tournament committee announced the 48-team field on March 16, following the selection of the fields for the NCAA tournament and WBIT. == Participants == === Automatic qualifiers === The 2026 field featured 9 automatic qualifiers and 39 at-large bids. Automatic qualifiers for the WNIT were teams that were the 2–seeds in their conference tournament that did not receive a bid into the NCAA tournament or the WBIT. For the first time since their transition to Division I in the 2024–25 academic year, Mercyhurst participated in the NCAA postseason.

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