Pirates Selected for WBIT; Face Saint Joe's Thursday - Seton Hall University Athletics
The Seton Hall women's basketball team has been invited to participate in the 2024 Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament (WBIT). The Pirates will face Sa...
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The Hall will head to Philadelphia to face the Hawks for a second-straight postseason.
INDIANAPOLIS – The Seton Hall women's basketball team has been invited to participate in the 2024 Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament (WBIT). The Pirates will face Saint Joseph's in the first round of the event on Thursday, March 21 in Philadelphia.
Should Seton Hall advance past the Hawks, the Pirates will face the winner of the game between California and Hawaii in round two. The location and date for that contest is TBD.
WBIT committee seeded only the top half of the 32-team field. The remaining 16 teams were placed into the bracket by the WBIT Committee as close to their area of natural interest as possible. The 2024 semifinals and championship will be played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Ind.
Preliminary WBIT games are being televised on ESPN+, while the semifinals will be on ESPNU, and the finals will be on ESPN2. Additional WBIT information can be found on ncaa.com/WBIT.
This will be the second-consecutive year that The Hall is facing Saint Joseph's in the first round of the postseason. Last year, the Pirates hosted the Hawks in the first round of the WNIT in Walsh Gym, which resulted in a 69-61 victory for Seton Hall.
This is the inaugural WBIT event and the third consecutive season playing in the postseason for the Pirates. The Hall has now played in the postseason during eight of 11 seasons with Anthony Bozzella at the helm. Of the three seasons they didn't compete in postseason play, the 2020 postseason was canceled and the Pirates declined a WNIT invitation in 2021, both due to COVID concerns.