The Southern Miss women will be making their seventh appearance in the WNIT.
The Lady Eagles (18-13) earned an at-large bid to the tournament and will host former Conference USA rival UAB on Wednesday at 6 p.m.
The winner of this game will play Murray State, which received a bye.
UAB (18-13) lost its opening-round game in the American Athletic Conference tournament to Rice with the Lady Blazers losing their five last games. The Lady Eagles are winners of 10 of their last 12 games before being losing in the Sun Belt conference tournament semifinals.
Southern Miss is 41-28 all-time against UAB. The last meeting between the two programs ended with Lady Eagles defeating the Blazers 67-57 on the road back in the 2021-22 season.
Domonique Davis and Hattiesburg High alum Melyia Grayson both earned spots on the Sun Belt’s conference teams with Davis collecting first team honors and Grayson landing on third team. The two All-Sun Belt Conference selections joined the 1,000-point club this season and have combined to score 919 points.
UAB’s Mia Moore was named the AAC’s Newcomer of the Year after leading the Lady Blazers with 15.5 points and 8.9 rebounds per game. She was also named to the AAC’s All-Conference third team.
Southern Miss last appeared in the WNIT in the 2016-17 season and are 7-7 all-time in the tournament.
The 2024 postseason WNIT will mark Southern Miss’ 17th postseason appearance in program history and ninth trip to the WNIT. It will be the Lady Eagles’ first trip to the tournament since 2017 and fifth selection under Joye Lee-McNelis.
Southern Miss’ best run in the WNIT came in 2015, when the Lady Eagles advanced to the Great Eight at Reed Green Coliseum before falling 69-60 to Michigan.
The Round 1 date/time schedule and the Round 2 bye opponents are as follows (NOTE – teams with first-round byes are not guaranteed to play at home in Round 2):
Wednesday, March 20
UAB at Southern Miss, 7 p.m. ET
Winner plays Murray State, TBA
Eastern Kentucky at Purdue Fort Wayne, 7 p.m. ET
Winner plays Cincinnati, TBA
Boise State at Montana, 9 p.m. ET
Winner plays North Dakota State, TBA
Thursday, March 21
Monmouth at Buffalo, 6 p.m. ET
Winner plays Duquesne, TBA
UAlbany at Colgate, 6 p.m. ET
Winner plays Providence, TBA
Bowling Green at Butler, 7 p.m. ET
Winner plays Purdue, TBA
Charleston at USC Upstate, 7 p.m. ET
Winner plays Illinois State, TBA
Stetson at Florida International, 7 p.m. ET
Winner plays Troy, TBA
Northern Colorado at UTSA, 7:30 p.m. ET
Winner plays Wyoming, TBA
Saint Louis at Central Arkansas, 7:30 p.m. ET
Winner plays Northern Iowa, TBA
Grambling at Oral Roberts, 8 p.m. ET
Winner plays Louisiana-Monroe, TBA
UIC at Southern Indiana, 8 p.m. ET
Winner plays Wisconsin, TBA
Cal Poly at Pacific, 9 p.m. ET
Winner plays Minnesota, TBA
Friday, March 22
Le Moyne at Niagara, 7 p.m. ET
Winner plays Vermont, TBA
UNC Greensboro at North Carolina A&T, 7 p.m. ET
Winner plays Old Dominion, TBA
UC Riverside at South Dakota, 8 p.m. ET
Winner plays Northern Arizona, TBA
Round 1 (in bracket order):
Cal Poly (17-13) at Pacific (18-14)
Boise State (21-13) at Montana (22-9)
Northern Colorado (15-15) at UTSA (17-14)
UC Riverside (18-13) at South Dakota (21-12)
Stetson (17-14) at Florida International (20-11)
UNC Greensboro (21-11) at North Carolina A&T (20-11)
UAB (18-13) at Southern Miss (18-13)
Grambling State (22-9) at Oral Roberts (21-10)
UAlbany (25-6) at Colgate (18-13)
Le Moyne (18-13) at Niagara (20-13)
Monmouth (21-9) at Buffalo (19-13)
Bowling Green (16-14) at Butler (14-16)
Eastern Kentucky (22-11) at Purdue Fort Wayne (21-12)
Saint Louis (16-18) at Central Arkansas (21-11)
Charleston (21-9) at South Carolina Upstate (16-15)
UIC (18-15) at Southern Indiana (24-6)
These 16 teams have first-round byes (alphabetical, not seeded):
Cincinnati (14-17)
Duquesne (20-12)
Illinois State (21-11)
Louisiana-Monroe (19-13)
Minnesota (16-15)
Murray State (20-11)
North Dakota State (21-11)
Northern Arizona (25-9)
Northern Iowa (16-15)
Old Dominion (22-9)
Providence (13-20)
Purdue (13-18)
Troy (19-11)
Vermont (22-11)
Wisconsin (13-16)
Wyoming (16-14)
Here’s the rest of the schedule for the tournament:
Round 2 - March 23-26, 2024
Round 3 - March 27-29, 2024
Quarterfinals - March 30-April 1, 2024
Semifinals - April 2-3, 2024
The 2024 Postseason WNIT will again have its championship game broadcast on CBS Sports Network, with tipoff set for Saturday, April 6, at 3 p.m. ET
All games are played at individual schools; the 2024 Postseason WNIT has 24 teams that won at least 20 games this season.
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