{"id":187534,"date":"2025-08-30T16:01:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T16:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/187534\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T16:01:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T16:01:37","slug":"fort-worth-to-host-first-womens-basketball-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/187534\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth to host first women’s basketball invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dickies Arena in Fort Worth will have the honor of hosting the first-ever edition of the Sprouts Farmers Market espnW Invitational, featuring a game between Texas and Baylor on Sunday, December 14.<\/p>\n

The new event, owned and operated by ESPN Events, will be a matchup between two perennial women’s basketball powerhouses, both of which are predicted<\/a> to be ranked in the top 10 when the season starts.<\/p>\n

The Texas Longhorns are coming off a season in which they they clinched their first SEC regular season title, earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament, and made the Final Four before bowing out in the semifinals.<\/p>\n

The Baylor Bears had another great year, finishing with a 28-8 record, which was good for second place in the Big 12 and a No. 4 seed in the NCAA tournament. They lost in the second round to Ole Miss.<\/p>\n

“Since launching in 2010, espnW has been building towards events like this,\u201d said Susie Piotrkowski, Vice President, ESPN Women\u2019s Sports Programming & espnW, in a statement. \u201cThe espnW Invitational is a presentation of the game’s top athletes competing at the highest level – delivering Women\u2019s Sports fans more of what they crave.”<\/p>\n

Tickets for the espnW Invitational will go on sale on a to-be-determined date in the fall. Fans can secure first access to the best seats now by registering for the pre-sale at espnevents.com\/espnw-invitational<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dickies Arena in Fort Worth will have the honor of hosting the first-ever edition of the Sprouts Farmers…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":187535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,7372,62,105059,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-187534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fortworth","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-sports-fitness","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115118557347841360","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}