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American women's college basketball tournament From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2017 Women's Basketball Invitational (WBI) is a single-elimination tournament of 16 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I teams that did not participate in the 2017 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament or 2017 Women's National Invitation Tournament. The 2017 field was announced on March 13. First round WBI games took place on March 15 and 16; second-round games were played March 18 and March 19. The tournament semifinals were held March 23 with the 2017 WBI Championship game played the final weekend of March. Rice won the WBI for the first time ever, beating UNC Greensboro, 74–62.[1]
Season | 2016–17 | ||||
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Teams | 16 | ||||
Champions | Rice | ||||
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First Round March 15–16 | Quarterfinals March 18–19 | Semifinals March 23 | |||||||||
Idaho | 64 | ||||||||||
Utah State | 57 | ||||||||||
Idaho | 74 | ||||||||||
Eastern Washington | 67 | ||||||||||
Texas State | 62 | ||||||||||
Eastern Washington | 66* | ||||||||||
Idaho | 80 | ||||||||||
Rice | 86 | ||||||||||
Rice | 73 | ||||||||||
Lamar | 72 | ||||||||||
Rice | 73 | ||||||||||
Texas–Rio Grande Valley | 63 | ||||||||||
Texas–Rio Grande Valley | 62 | ||||||||||
Stephen F. Austin | 54 |
First Round March 15–16 | Quarterfinals March 18–19 | Semifinals March 23 | |||||||||
UMBC | 75 | ||||||||||
Brown | 81 | ||||||||||
Brown | 84 | ||||||||||
UNCG | 87 | ||||||||||
Charleston Southern | 37 | ||||||||||
UNC Greensboro | 45 | ||||||||||
UNCG | 59 | ||||||||||
Milwaukee | 49 | ||||||||||
Milwaukee | 81 | ||||||||||
Southern Illinois | 53 | ||||||||||
Milwaukee | 67 | ||||||||||
Saint Francis | 57 | ||||||||||
Campbell | 68 | ||||||||||
Saint Francis | 79 |
Championship game March 26 | |||
UNCG | 62 | ||
Rice | 74 |
* - Denotes overtime period
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