After watching the Mountaineer men's basketball team accept an invitation to the CIT, the Lady Mountaineers decided to extend their season by accepting an invitation to play in the Women's Basketball Invitational. The WBI, in its inaugural year, is a postseason tournament comprised of 16 teams, broken up into two regions with eight teams in each respective region. It is a single elimination tournament with the higher seeded team hosting each round. The opening round game will take place either March  18, with the next set of games scheduled to be played on March 20 or 21, third round games set to take place on March 24 or 25 and the championship scheduled for March 28 or 29. Appalachian's postseason bid marks just the sixth time in program history that the Black and Gold will play in a postseason tournament, having made four NCAA Tournament appearances and one WNIT Tournament appearance. The Apps' are 0-7 all-time in the postseason (three games were played in the 1986-87 WNIT). The Lady Apps will play at Charleston Southern, Thursday March 18 at 7 p.m. The Black and Gold earned the No. 1 seed in the East region of the bracket and will be facing the Buccaneers for only the third time in school history. The last time the two team's squared off was during the 1991-92 season when ASU grabbed a resounding 89-55 win. ASU is 2-0 all-time against Charleston Southern. If the Mountaineers win, they will take on the winner of No. 4 Towson against No. 5 Fairfield.