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MOREHEAD, Ky. – The Morehead State women’s basketball program will host its first-ever NCAA postseason game on Wednesday, March 17 at 6 p.m. EDT against College of Charleston in the inaugural Women’s Basketball Invitational (WBI).
The game will be the first half of a basketball doubleheader at Johnson Arena Wednesday night with the Eagle men hosting Colorado State at 9 p.m. in the CBI Tournament. Ticket prices for the combined session will be $20 for reserved seats and $15 for general admission. MSU students will be admitted free with a valid MSU ID.
“I’m excited that we get to be a part of the inaugural Women’s Basketball Invitational, but I’m even more proud of our team for securing the first postseason berth in MSU’s Division I history,” said Morehead State coach Mike Bradbury. “The opportunity to play at home against a quality program like College of Charleston is an added bonus. If we do the right things, I think we have a chance to advance through the WBI field.”
The WBI is in its first year and provides another postseason opportunity for those schools which do not receive bids to the NCAA Tournament or WNIT. The event is put on by Sports Tours International. The 16-team tournament is divided into two-eight team regions (east and west). All games in the tournament will be hosted at campus sites with the higher seed serving as host site for each round.
Morehead State, the seventh seed for the WBI, finished the regular season and OVC Tournament with a school record 22-10 mark and a 14-4 OVC finish. Both those win totals set single season NCAA-era school records. The Eagles currently still lead all Division I teams with an NCAA-record 949 three-pointers attempted and 329 made. Junior guard
Chynna Bozeman, the MSU and OVC career leader in three-pointers made, was named the 2010 OVC Player of the Year.
College of Charleston, seeded second by the WBI, is 19-11 overall this year and finished fourth in the Southern Conference race. The Cougars lost in the first round of the Southern Conference Tournament to Georgia Southern by one.