STEPHENVILLE – It had already been announced Tarleton State Women’s Basketball had received a bye to the second round of the 2025 Women’s National Invitational Tournament. Now it’s certain that Tarleton State will play that game at home in Stephenville at Wisdom Gym.
The Texans will host either Lindenwood or Tulsa on Sunday at 2 p.m. in Wisdom Gym in their first ever NCAA Division I postseason tournament appearance, it was announced on Wednesday.
Tickets are now available for the game. Courtside tickets are $50, reserved tickets are $15 and general admission tickets are $10, while students, staff and faculty tickets are free of charge. Season ticket holders from this past season will have first right of refusal to retain their seats for this game, but they must call Tarleton State Director of Ticket Sales and Service Kaity Burris at 254-968-1693 by 5 p.m. on Thursday to do so.
Tickets can be purchased and claimed here: https://tarletontickets.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx?id=2411
Tarleton State will host the winner of the WNIT’s first round game between Lindenwood and Tulsa, who face off on Thursday at 7 p.m. in St. Charles, Missouri. The Lindenwood Lions are 21-10 overall this season and went 16-4 in Ohio Valley Conference play. They advanced to the OVC Tournament Championship against Tennessee Tech before falling in overtime. The Tulsa Golden Hurricane are 17-14 overall and went 11-7 in the American Athletic Conference. They lost their opening conference tournament game in the second round to Charlotte.
The Texans, who clinched the WAC’s automatic bid to the event by finishing second in the conference in 2025, are coming off their best season in the Division I Era after winning a single-season D1 program record 20 games. Tarleton State was the only team from the WAC to obtain a first-round bye for the WNIT.
Predicted to finish sixth in the conference’s preseason poll, Tarleton State clinched the conference’s No. 2 seed and advanced to its first-ever Division I conference semifinal last week. The Texans also finished with a Division I program record 13 wins in Stephenville in the final basketball season at Wisdom Gym, dominating its Wisdom Gym Farewell game on March 6 against California Baptist 75-44.
Powered by Triple Crown Sports, the WNIT enters its 27th season of rewarding the depth found in women’s college basketball. The Postseason WNIT is the longest current running postseason event for women’s college basketball, in addition to the NCAA Tournament, and has afforded hundreds of opportunities for schools in every conference to play in the postseason. Past champions of the WNIT include Kansas, Indiana, Michigan, UCLA, Oklahoma State and other Power 4 conference programs.
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