SAN DIEGO — San Diego State is the 14th seed in the NCAA women’s basketball tournament and is preparing today for a first-round game against Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
San Diego State (25-9) will face LSU (28-5) on Saturday in the Regional 1 bracket. The game starts at 7:15 p.m. and will be televised on ESPN.
The UC San Diego women join the men’s team by making their first appearance in the NCAA basketball tournament. The Tritons (20-15) play Southern (20-14) in a play-in game in the Regional 1 bracket at 3 p.m. on Wednesday at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles. The game will be televised on ESPNU.
The UCLA and USC women’s basketball teams, along with South Carolina and Texas, are the No. 1 seeds in the NCAA tournament.
For the first time in school history, UCLA is the top seed in the tournament. The Bruins won the Big Ten Tournament and will play the winner of the UC San Diego vs. Southern play-in game in the first round of the Regional 1 bracket in Los Angeles on Friday.
UCLA (30-2) has never won an NCAA national championship in women’s basketball. The Bruins’ only two losses this season came against crosstown rival USC, but UCLA beat USC in the championship game of the Big Ten Tournament.
UCLA’s first-round game is at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles and will be televised on ESPN at 7 p.m. on Friday.
USC (28-3) is the No. 1 seed in Regional 4 and will play UNC Greensboro in the first round in Los Angeles on Saturday.
The Trojans won two NCAA women’s basketball championships in 1983 and 1984.
USC plays UNC Greensboro (25-6) at Galen Center in Los Angeles. The game will be televised on ABC and will tip off at noon.
South Carolina, the reigning NCAA women’s basketball national champion, is the No. 1 seed in Regional 3. South Carolina (30-3) plays Tennessee Tech (26-5) in the first round in Columbia, South Carolina, at 10 a.m. on Friday.
Texas (31-3) is the No. 1 seed in Regional 3 and plays the winner of the High Point vs. William & Mary play-in game. The first-round game for Texas is Saturday and scheduled to start at 3:45 p.m. in Austin, Texas.
