<Tr> <Th> National Championship </Th> <Td> Amalie Arena Tampa, Florida </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> ← 2017--18 2019--20 → </Td> </Tr> <P> The 2018--19 NCAA Division I women's basketball season will begin on November 2018 and end with the Final Four title game at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida on April 2019 . Practices will officially begin in September 2018 . </P> <Ul> <Li> June 18--Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW), which was set to begin operation on July 1 following the dissolution of Indiana University--Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW), announced that the athletic program that it would inherit from IPFW, previously known as the Fort Wayne Mastodons, would become the Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons . PFW also changed its colors from IPFW's former blue and silver scheme to the old gold and black used by its new parent institution . </Li> <Li> September 10--The Northeast Conference (NEC) announced that Merrimack College would start a transition from the NCAA Division II Northeast - 10 Conference and join the NEC effective July 1, 2019 . The Warriors will not be eligible for the NCAA tournament until becoming a full D-I member in 2023--24 . </Li> <Li> October 3--Long Island University announced that it would merge its two current athletic programs--the LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds, full members of the NEC, and the Division II LIU Post Pioneers--effective with the 2019--20 school year . The new program will compete under the LIU name with a new nickname and retain LIU Brooklyn's Division I and NEC memberships . This change will have minimal effect on the existing LIU Brooklyn women's basketball program, as LIU has announced that the unified basketball team will be based at the Brooklyn campus . </Li> </Ul>

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