The 2025 Women's National Invitation Tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 48 NCAA Division I women's college basketball teams that were not selected for the field of the 2025 Women's NCAA Tournament or the 2025 WBIT. The tournament committee announced the 48-team field on March 16, following the selection of the fields for the NCAA tournament and WBIT.
The 2025 field featured 11 automatic qualifiers and 37 at-large selections, chosen after consideration of a mix of criteria by WNIT officials. There were 22 teams with 20 or more victories in the bracket.
<nowiki>*</nowiki> â Denotes overtime period<br> <nowiki>(H)</nowiki> - Denotes home team<br> Teams with a bye are not guaranteed to play at home in the second round
^ <small>Despite Illinois State being designated as the home team, game played at nearby Shirk Center on the campus of Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois (in the BloomingtonâÂÂNormal metropolitan area).</small>
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