The Women’s Basketball Invitational (WBI) is a women’s college basketball tournament created in 2009 by Sport Tours. The inaugural tournament occurred at the conclusion of the 2009–10 NCAA Division I women’s basketball season. Selections for the WBI are announced on Selection Monday. The field for the WBI consists of a 16-team single elimination divided into two regions with 8 seeded teams in each.Teams in the WBI compete on the home court of the higher seed.