Bowling Green State University Athletics
Preseason WNIT Tips Off This Weekend
November 09, 2009 | Women's Basketball
Falcons host Chicago State in first round; BGSU is guaranteed at least three games in tourney.
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Bowling Green hosts Chicago State in the first round, and the winner will face the winner of the OSU-Eastern Illinois first-round game.
Georgia Tech, ranked 19th in the AP Top 25 preseason poll, is coming off its third straight 20-plus win season and returns four starters from its 22-10 team. The Yellow Jackets are one of 11 teams in the Preseason WNIT field that played in the postseason last spring: Arkansas-Little Rock, BGSU, Florida Gulf Coast, Georgia Tech, Marist, New Mexico, North Carolina A&T, Ohio State, Oklahoma State, West Virginia, and Winthrop. They will be joined in this fall's WNIT field by
Six of the teams are picked to win their conference or conference division title in this year's preseason polls: UALR, BGSU,
The Preseason WNIT features a three-game guarantee format. The event opens Friday, Nov. 13 with first-round games. Second-round games will be played Nov. 15-16; semifinals will be Nov. 18-19; and the championship is set for Sunday, Nov. 22. Teams that lose in the first two rounds will play consolation games on the second weekend, Nov. 20-22. All games are hosted by participating schools, and sites are announced by the end of the preceding round.
In last year's Preseason WNIT championship,
BGSU's notes for the Chicago State game will be available right here at BGSUFalcons.com late Tuesday or early Wednesday.
2009 Preseason WNIT - First-Round Games
(2008-09 team records in parentheses)
Friday, Nov. 13, 2009
Eastern Illinois (24-9) at
UTEP (18-12) at
Arkansas-Little Rock (26-7) at
Northern Colorado (12-18) at
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