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Kansas women’s basketball won’t be in the NCAA tournament this year, but it will compete in a postseason event. The Jayhawks will compete in the WBIT.
LAWRENCE — Kansas women’s basketball has fallen short of the NCAA tournament for the second-straight year, but it will be competing in a postseason event. KU (19-13) announced Sunday that it has accepted an invitation to compete in this year’s Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament. The event, which the NCAA owns and funds, has a 32-team field that’ll go through a single elimination tournament.
And while its first three rounds will be played on campus, the semifinals and final will take place at Charles Koch Arena in Wichita, Kansas. RELATED: ‘We’ll see’: What are KU women’s basketball’s NCAA tournament chances? “Kansas has received a No.
2 seed for the WBIT, giving the Jayhawks the opportunity to host Troy in the first round on Thursday, March 19, at Allen Fieldhouse,” a KU release detailed. “Kansas will compete in the postseason for the fourth time in the past five seasons, which includes NCAA Tournament appearances in 2022 and 2024. In its last non-NCAA Tournament postseason event, the Jayhawks won six consecutive home games to win the 2023 WNIT, which culminated with a 66-59 victory over Columbia in front of 11,701 fans at Allen Fieldhouse.
” Kansas last played in early March, when it was eliminated from the Big 12 Conference tournament in the second round with a loss against Colorado in Kansas City, Missouri. The Jayhawks entered that event with the chance of making the NCAA tournament, but they needed to make a run in order to do so. Instead, a roster with two of the best the Big 12 has to offer in junior S’Mya Nichols and freshman Jaliya Davis will look to go on a run in the WBIT and build momentum for next season.