Using the bracketology and rankings from collegerpi.com, I made a guess at which teams would receive the 17 at large WNIT bids. I took the RPI rankings, marked out the 64 teams receiving NCAA bids, then the 31 teams receiving "automatic" WNIT bids and finally took the top 17 teams remaining:
42 Florida
50 Middle Tennessee State
52 Kansas
56 St. John's
58 Florida State
64 NC State
65 Illinois
66 Wisconsin
70 Texas Tech
71 Virginia Tech
72 Creighton
75 New Mexico State
77 Evansville
78 Michigan
79 South Florida
81 Villanova
89 San Diego State
Based on this, Michigan would be one of the last four teams in. There are lots of caveats though - the bracketology from collegerpi.com is last weeks, the WNIT uses a mixture of eight rankings (including RPI and Sagarin, who has Michigan higher ranked), I didn't research the conference tie breakers so I might have a few WNIT "auto bids" wrong, etc.
Monday, March 17 - updated list here.
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Hope you're right!
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