2026 WBIT: Bracket, schedule, scores for the women’s basketball tournament

Here’s every thing it’s essential find out about the 2026 WBIT postseason occasion. The 32-team bracket was introduced on Sunday, March 15.

Games started Thursday, March 19, and proceed by the title recreation on Wednesday, April 1. Minnesota received the 2025 occasion, beating Belmont in the championship recreation in Indianapolis. This 12 months’s WBIT will conclude in Wichita, Kan.

2026 WBIT bracket

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2026 WBIT: Schedule, recreation occasions, TV channels

*All occasions Eastern

• Championship
  • Wednesday, April 1, on ESPN2 at Charles Koch Arena in Wichita, Kan.

• Selection Sunday
  • 9 p.m. ET on Sunday, March 15 
• First Round
  • Thursday, March 19, at campus websites
    • Eastern Kentucky 72, No. 1 Utah 58
    • No. 2 Miami (Florida) 82, Georgia Southern 56
    • Quinnipiac 71, No.3 George Mason 64
    • No. 4 Columbia 74, Saint John’s (New York) 26
    • Missouri 67, Seton Hall 57
    • No. 4 Harvard 73, Navy 52
    • No. 2 Kansas 79, Troy 70 
    • No. 2 Kansas State 69, Georgia Tech 65
    • McNeese 68, No. 1 Texas A&M 48  
    • No. 1 North Dakota State 75, Chattanooga 62 
    • No. 3 Rice 66, Louisiana Tech 61 
    • No. 1 BYU 72, Alabama A&M 47
    • No. 3 Wisconsin 62, Oregon State 58
    • No. 4 San Diego State 61, UC Irvine 55
    • No. 2 Stanford 79, LMU 76
    • No. 3 Cal 72, Santa Clara 68
• Second Round
  • Sunday, March 22, at campus websites 
  • Monday, March 23, at campus websites 
• Quarterfinals: 
• Semifinals

How the WBIT subject is chosen

The regular-season champion of any NCAA Division I convention (as decided by the convention’s tie-break protocol) not in any other case chosen to the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship will safe an computerized qualification to the Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament. Co-champions who don’t obtain the declaration of WBIT consultant by the convention’s tie-break protocol won’t obtain computerized qualification. Institutions ineligible for postseason play won’t obtain computerized qualification as a regular-season champion.

The first 4 groups out of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship — as decided by the Division I Women’s Basketball Committee — will obtain an computerized bid and will probably be the high 4 seeds in the WBIT subject.

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