The Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) is a women's national college basketball tournament with a preseason and postseason version played every year. It is operated in a similar fashion to the men's college National Invitation Tournament (NIT) and NIT Season Tip-Off. Unlike the NIT, the women's tournament is not run by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), but is an independent tournament. Triple Crown Sports, a company based in Fort Collins, Colorado that specializes in the promotion of amateur sporting events, created the WNIT in 1994 as a preseason counterpart to the then-current National Women's Invitational Tournament (NWIT). After the NWIT folded in 1996, Triple Crown Sports resurrected the postseason version in 1998 under the NWIT name, but changed the following season to the current name.

NIT - Naised on Ameerika Ühendriikide ülikoolide naiste korvpalliturniir, mis peetakse hooaja lõpus. Turniiril osaleb 32 meeskonda, kes on osalenud NCAA turniiril. NIT turniiri on peetud alates 1982. aastast ja seda peetakse NCAA turniiri järel üheks prestiižseimaks ülikoolide naiste korvpalliturniiriks Ameerika Ühendriikides.