Women’s basketball earns No. 2 seed in NCAA Tournament, faces Alabama State

By Blanche Schaefer

AUSTIN, Texas — The No. 7 Texas women’s basketball team earned the No. 2 seed in the Sioux Falls bracket of the NCAA Tournament and will host the first and second rounds this weekend in Austin.[s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)]

Seventh-seeded BYU, 10^th-seeded Missouri, and 15^th-seeded Alabama State also will play in the tournament at the Frank Erwin Center, which kicks off Saturday. No. 7 BYU and No. 10 Missouri face off at 5:30 p.m., and No. 2 Texas plays No. 15 Alabama State at 8 p.m. The winners will play each other March 21. The start of the second-round game has not yet been determined.

This is Texas’ 29^th all-time appearance in the NCAA Tournament and its first time to host the first and second rounds since 2010. Texas is seeded No. 2 for the fifth time in program history, earning its best seed since earning the No. 1 slot in 2004.

The Longhorns finished the regular season with a 28-4 overall record and a 15-3 Big 12 record.

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