For the first time since the 2017-18 season, Purdue women’s basketball will be playing postseason basketball after the Big Ten Tournament. The program announced they have accepted a bid to play in the Women’s NIT starting this week, after failing to earn an at-large bid in the NCAA Tournament.
The 2022 WNIT will be the Boilermaker’s 30th postseason appearance in school history. Purdue had clinched a postseason berth in 21 consecutive seasons, with 20 of them being the NCAA Tournament up until missing it in the 2014-15 season. They then started a new streak of three straight postseason tournaments before the program took a downturn in the 2018-19 season.