Top women's basketball teams appropriately want to test themselves against each other, but this leads to a big headache in the bracketing process.

“I think people recognize that and honor it. Quite honestly, I think you can sometimes say less in any setting because you want to make sure that you don’t even get up to that line of integrity. I think that’s just part of what we have to work through, the way the committee is designed.”

The 32-team field for the 2025 WBIT was announced Sunday, March 16. Virginia Tech, James Madison, Saint Joseph’s and Colorado received an automatic bid and the top four seeds in the WBIT as the first four teams out of the 2025 NCAA DI women's basketball tournament.