With the full field of 68 now official following Selection Sunday, this year’s group of NCAA women’s basketball tournament title hopefuls now know where their march to the Final Four in Dallas will begin.
Headlined by No. 1 seed Stanford, the Seattle Regional 4 will tip off the first round of action on Friday. Making their 35th consecutive NCAA tournament appearance, the Cardinal (28–5) and coach Tara VanDerveer enter March Madness looking to earn their third-straight final four berth. The program finished the year as the Pac-12 co-regular season champions and ranked fifth in the nation.
Big Ten champion Iowa (26–6), led by star guard Caitlin Clark, Duke (25–6) and Texas (25–9) and will round out the top four in the region.