LOS ANGELES (CNS) – The UCLA and USC ladies’s basketball groups are
headed to the NCAA match as No. 1 seeds.
UCLA is the highest seed within the match for the primary time in class historical past. The Bruins gained the Large Ten Match and can play the winner of the UC San Diego vs. Southern play-in sport within the first spherical of the Regional bracket in Los Angeles on Friday.
UCLA (30-2) has by no means gained an NCAA nationwide championship in ladies’s basketball. The one two losses for the Bruins this season got here in opposition to crosstown rival USC. However UCLA beat USC within the championship sport of the Large Ten Match.
UCLA’s first-round sport is at Pauley Pavilion and can be televised on ESPN on Friday. The sport is about to start out at 7 p.m.USC (28-3) is the No. 1 seed in Regional 4 and can play UNC Greensboro within the first spherical in Los Angeles on Saturday.
The Trojans have gained two NCAA ladies’s basketball championship in 1983 and 1984.
USC performs UNC Greensboro (25-6) at Galen Middle in Los Angeles. The sport can be televised on ABC and is about to tip off at midday.
South Carolina, the reigning NCAA ladies’s basketball nationwide champion, is the No. 1 seed in Regional 3. South Carolina (30-3) performs Tennessee Tech (26-5) within the first spherical in Columbia, South Carolina on Friday.
The sport is about to start out at 10 a.m.
Texas (31-3) is the No. 1 seed in Regional 3 and performs the winner of the Excessive Level vs. William & Mary play-in sport. The primary spherical sport for Texas is Saturday and scheduled to start out at 3:45 p.m. in Austin, Texas.
UCLA Males to Play Utah State in NCAA TournamentUCLA is the seventh seed within the Midwest Area within the NCAA males’s basketball match and making ready at the moment to face Tenth-seeded Utah State in a first-round sport in Lexington, Kentucky.
“As a result of Jerrod and I are pals, on my nights sitting at house once they have been on, I positively watched them,” Bruins coach Mick Cronin mentioned, referring to Aggies coach Jerrod Calhoun. “I watched them play in opposition to Richard Pitino (New Mexico). I noticed them play Iowa.
“I’m effectively conscious of their workforce. I root for the blokes that I do know effectively within the enterprise. Utah State was on an absolute roll in the beginning of the season. They beat Iowa. They’ve a number of wins. UCSD acquired them up there and congratulations to these guys. I did scout the Iowa movie in preparation for Iowa, so I watched them carefully there. I’ve seen about 5, six, seven occasions not less than.”’
Oddsmakers have made UCLA a 4 1/2-5 1/2-point favourite.
Because the match expanded to 64 groups in 1985, the seventh seeds have an 81-54 file in opposition to the Tenth seeds within the first spherical, with the 2021 West Area match-up between seventh-seed Oregon and Tenth-seed Virginia Commonwealth thought-about a no contest because of COVID-19 protocols with Virginia Commonwealth.
Connecticut in 2014 is the one seventh seed to win the NCAA match. The Bruins (22-10) obtained their invitation after ending in a three-way tie for fourth within the 18-team Large Ten Convention. UCLA will enter the NCAA match after Friday’s 86-70 loss to Wisconsin in a quarterfinal sport of the Large Ten Match.
The Bruins are returning to the NCAA match after a one-season absence. That is the fourth time in 5 seasons UCLA has superior to the match.
Utah State (26-7) was third within the 11-team Mountain West Convention. The Aggies misplaced to second-seeded Colorado State, 83-72, in a Mountain West Males’s Basketball Championship semifinal Friday. TNT will televise Thursday’s sport 6:25 p.m.
The UCLA-Utah State winner will play the winner of Thursday’s sport between second-seeded Tennessee and Fifteenth-seeded Wofford.
