The 2018 Women's Basketball Invitational (WBI) was a single-elimination tournament consisting of 16 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I teams that did not participate in the 2018 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament or 2018 Women's National Invitation Tournament. The 2018 field was announced on March 13. First round WBI games occurred on March 14 and 15; second-round games were played on March 19 and 20. The tournament semifinals were held March 23 and 24, and the 2018 WBI Championship game was held on March 29.[1] Yale defeated Central Arkansas, 54–50, to become WBI champions.
Season | 2017–18 | ||||
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Teams | 16 | ||||
Champions | Yale | ||||
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Bracket
editFirst Round March 14–15 | Quarterfinals March 19–20 | Semifinals March 24 | Championship game March 29 | ||||||||||||
Nevada | 70 | ||||||||||||||
UC Irvine | 60 | ||||||||||||||
Nevada | 86 | ||||||||||||||
Fresno State | 74 | ||||||||||||||
Bakersfield | 66 | ||||||||||||||
Fresno State | 77 | ||||||||||||||
Nevada | 56 | ||||||||||||||
Central Arkansas | 65 | ||||||||||||||
Texas Southern | 56 | ||||||||||||||
Weber State | 66 | ||||||||||||||
Weber State | 67 | ||||||||||||||
Central Arkansas | 82 | ||||||||||||||
Central Arkansas | 51 | ||||||||||||||
SIUE | 39 | ||||||||||||||
Central Arkansas | 50 | ||||||||||||||
Yale | 54 | ||||||||||||||
Northeastern | 58 | ||||||||||||||
Yale | 68 | ||||||||||||||
Yale | 70 | ||||||||||||||
Binghamton | 64 | ||||||||||||||
Youngstown State | 59 | ||||||||||||||
Binghamton | 70 | ||||||||||||||
Yale | 76* | ||||||||||||||
South Alabama | 74 | ||||||||||||||
UNC Asheville | 64 | ||||||||||||||
Furman | 65 | ||||||||||||||
Furman | 53 | ||||||||||||||
South Alabama | 54 | ||||||||||||||
South Alabama | 49 | ||||||||||||||
Stetson | 33 |
* - Denotes overtime
References
edit- ^ "2018 WBI Bracket". Women's Basketball Invitational. PrestoSports. Retrieved March 13, 2018.
External links
edit- Women's Basketball Invitational Archived 2018-03-12 at the Wayback Machine