YSU’s Season Continues with Women’s NIT Bid

Youngstown, Ohio— After posting one in all its greatest seasons within the final 26 years, the Youngstown State ladies’s basketball staff’s 2025-26 marketing campaign will proceed within the Postseason WNIT.

The 48-team discipline was introduced on Sunday night, and the Postseason WNIT will launch its full bracket on Monday, together with matchups, places, and begin instances for the opening spherical. Youngstown State earned the Horizon League’s automated bid because the convention’s prime staff that was not chosen for the NCAA Tournament or WBIT.

This is Youngstown State’s fifth look all-time within the WNIT, following earlier bids in 2012-13, 2014-15, 2018-19 and 2021-22.

The Penguins are 24-9 this season, and so they completed because the runner-up within the Horizon League event for the primary time in program historical past. YSU went 15-5 in opposition to convention opponents in the course of the common season to safe the No. 2 seed within the event.