The UCLA Women’s Basketball team are going dancing as the #4 seed in the Bridgeport Region of the 2017 NCAA Women’s Tournament.
“Let’s Dance! Put on your shoes and dance the blues.” That is right, the UCLA Women’s Basketball team is going dancing and will be hosting the first two rounds of the 2017 NCAA Women’s Tournament.
After a 23-8, 13-5 season, the Bruins found themselves in fourth place in the Pac-12. They also took a tough exit in the Pac-12 semifinals against Oregon State. Still, they had five wins over Top 25 teams and are the #15 team in the AP Poll with an overall impressive resume.
That was good enough for the #4 seed in the Bridgeport Region, with even better news, The Bruins will be hosting the first two rounds at Pauley Pavilion.
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The Bruins will take on #13 Boise State in the first game of this mini-bracket at 3:30 p.m. PT on Saturday, March 18. The second game will have #5 Texas A&M facing #12 Penn at 6:00 p.m.
Which ever team makes it out of Westwood alive, would most likely face #1 Connecticut in the Sweet 16 and is on a bit of a roll right now. In the bottom half of the bracket, #2 Duke and #3 Maryland are the strong contenders to emerge as a Elite 8 contender.
The other #1 seeds are Notre Dame (Lexington Region), Baylor (Oklahoma City) and South Carolina (Stockton).
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Other Pac-12 teams in the NCAA Tournament are as follows (with the region in parentheses): #2 Oregon State (Stockton), #2 Stanford (Lexington), #3, Washington (Oklahoma City), #8 Arizona State (Stockton), #9 California )Oklahoma City) and #10 Oregon (Bridgeport).