No. 1 Ucla Women's Basketball Ncaa Tournament Region Includes Lsu And Duke

The No. 1 seed UCLA women’s hoops squad will big No. 16 seed Cal Baptist connected Saturday successful nan first information of nan women’s NCAA tournament.

The Bruins (31-1 overall, 18-0 successful nan Big Ten), who won nan Big Ten tourney championship past week, were nan 2nd wide seed successful nan tourney section revealed Sunday, conscionable down wide No. 1 UConn.

The Lancers (23-10) won nan WAC title pinch a triumph complete Abilene Christian. It is their 2nd NCAA tourney bid successful nan past 3 seasons aft falling to UCLA successful nan first information arsenic a 15-seed successful 2024.

Cal Baptist, based successful Riverside, is led by freshman defender Lauren Olson (15.1 points per game) and inferior defender Filipa Barros (10.0 rebounds per contest). The Lancers elevated to a Division I programme successful 2021 and qualified for nan NCAA tourney that play but were not allowed to participate while transitioning from Division II.

Also astatine Pauley Pavilion, Ivy League champion Princeton (26-3) will look Oklahoma State (23-9) successful nan first round, advancing to look nan victor of UCLA and Cal Baptist.

Some different potent teams wrong UCLA’s region see No. 2 seed LSU (27-5), No. 3 seed Duke (24-9) and No. 5 seed Ole Miss (23-11).

The Bruins are successful nan 2nd quadrant, matching up pinch nan 3rd wide seed — Texas — connected nan Sacramento broadside of nan bracket. The Longhorns are nan only squad that has beaten UCLA truthful acold this season.

There was a mobility arsenic to whether UCLA would beryllium named nan apical seed wide aft going undefeated successful Big Ten play and winning nan convention tourney last complete Iowa by 51 points, but nan undefeated Huskies stayed atop nan bracket.

UCLA fell to UConn successful nan Final Four a play ago, and this twelvemonth are led by a group of upperclassmen successful seniors Lauren Betts, Kiki Rice and Gabriela Jaquez, on pinch postgraduate students Charlisse Leger-Walker and Gianna Kneepkens.