The goal of making the NCAA tournament field turned out to be just out of reach for the Gophers women’s basketball team. But the program took another step by accepting a bid to play in the 32-team Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament on Sunday.

Because the boys state basketball tournament is at Williams Arena this week, the No. 2-seeded Gophers will have to play Toledo on the road Thursday. “It makes it challenging, certainly,” coach

For the second year in a row, the Florida Gators women's basketball team (16-17) is headed to the Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament (WBIT). As a No. 3 seed, they’ll start the tournament at home against No. 6 seed Northern Iowa (17-16) on Thursday at 7 p.m. in the O’Connell Center.