National Invitation Tournament (English Wikipedia)

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"NCAA announces creation of Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament" (Press release). NCAA. July 17, 2023. Retrieved July 28, 2023.
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"NCAA Tournament History". Archived from the original on August 4, 2003. Retrieved 2013-02-12. The tournament now determines the national champion, but that wasn't always the case. Until the 1950s, the NIT was just as big a tournament as the NCAA, and teams often chose to enter the NIT and bypass the NCAA tourney
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