NEW YORK – The Columbia women's basketball team's season will continue. After winning a program-record 22 games, the Lions have accepted a bid to play in the 2022 Postseason Women's National Invitational Tournament. The tournament announced its field of 64 Sunday night. 

The WNIT will reveal its complete 64-team bracket on Monday at 2 p.m. ET. At that time, Columbia will find out its first-round opponent and where the game will be played. Every game of the 2022 Postseason WNIT will be contested at campus sites.
 
First-round games will be played this Wednesday-Friday, March 16-18, followed by second-round games March 19-22. The round of 16 and quarterfinals are slated for March 23-28, followed by the semifinals on Wednesday, March 30 and Thursday, March 31. The 2022 WNIT Championship Game will be played Saturday, April 2.
 
Columbia (22-6, 12-2 Ivy) had a historic season to land the Ivy League's automatic qualifying spot to its first WNIT. The Lions won the most games in the 38-year history of the program and had their best Ivy League season in their 36 years since officially joining the conference (1986-87). Along the way, they started the 2021-22 season 5-0 for the first time, started the Ivy League season 7-0 for the first time and earned the No. 2 seed at last weekend's Ivy League Tournament. Columbia throttled third-seeded Yale, 67-38, in the semifinals to advance to the Championship Game, where it fell to top-seeded Princeton, 77-59.
 
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