HBCU and local women’s DI basketball teams prep NCAA Tournament

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March Madness is upon us, and now that NCAA women’s basketball teams are officially allowed to use that term.

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March Madness is upon us, and now that NCAA women’s basketball teams are officially allowed to use that term, even though it’s been used for decades it only became official in 2022, let’s go mad. While the only teams from New York and New Jersey headed to the Big Dance—the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament—are Columbia, Princeton, and Syracuse, other local teams will be dancing in other arenas.

Stony Brook, which was narrowly defeated by Drexel in the CAA Championship game on Sunday, is headed to the WBIT and will face the #1 seed James Madison today. Stony Brook comes in with the momentum of a good season in which the Seawolves earned their inaugural CAA Regular Season Championship. St. John’s University is also headed to the WBIT and is taking on the University of Florida in Gainesville today.

 

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