NIT - Kvinner

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The Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) is a women's national college basketball tournament with a preseason and postseason version played every year. It is operated in a similar fashion to the men's college National Invitation Tournament (NIT) and NIT Season Tip-Off. Unlike the NIT, the women's tournament is not run by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), but is an independent tournament. Triple Crown Sports, a company based in Fort Collins, Colorado that specializes in the promotion of amateur sporting events, created the WNIT in 1994 as a preseason counterpart to the then-current National Women's Invitational Tournament (NWIT). After the NWIT folded in 1996, Triple Crown Sports resurrected the postseason version in 1998 under the NWIT name, but changed the following season to the current name.

**NIT - Kvinner**

NIT - National Invitation Tournament er en basketballturnering for kvinner i USA. Turneringen ble første gang arrangert i 1994 og arrangeres hvert år i mars. Turneringen er åpen for lag som ikke kvalifiserer seg til NCAA-turneringen.

NIT-turneringen består av 32 lag som spiller en enkelt elimineringsturnering. De første rundene spilles på campusene til deltakende lag, mens de siste rundene spilles på Madison Square Garden i New York City.

Vinneren av NIT-turneringen mottar et automatisk bud til NCAA-turneringen året etter.

NIT-turneringen har produsert en rekke bemerkelsesverdige spillere, inkludert Diana Taurasi, Candace Parker og Tamika Catchings.