The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga will visit North Dakota State in the first round of the Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament, with the matchup in Fargo set for Thursday.
As of Sunday night, tipoff times had not been announced for the 32-team event, which is divided into eight-team quadrants, with half of the entrants in each of those seeded from 1 to 4. UTC (20-10) is unseeded, while the Bison (28-4) are a No. 1 seed.
“This is a great opportunity for our team to play postseason basketball,” Mocs second-year head coach Deandra Schirmer said in a UTC release. “Whenever we get a chance to compete, we are going to take advantage of that.”
The Mocs clinched a spot in the NCAA-sanctioned event by winning a share of the Southern Conference regular-season championship and being the top seed in the league tournament, where they fell 72-67 to Samford in the championship game on March 8 in Asheville, North Carolina.
It will be the fourth consecutive trip to the postseason for the Mocs and third time in four years they’ve played in a NCAA-sanctioned postseason event. UTC won the 2023 and 2024 SoCon tournament titles to qualify for the 68-team NCAA Division I tournament, then played in the 48-team Women’s National Invitation Tournament last season, where the Mocs defeated Alabama A&M at McKenzie Arena before traveling to Troy and losing in the second.