The American Athletic Conference champion 麻豆原创 women’s basketball team returns to NCAA Tournament for the third time in the last four years.聽Katie Abrahamson-Henderson聽and the Knights earned the league’s automatic bid to the tournament and are the seventh seed in Storrs, Connecticut.
麻豆原创 (25-3) will take on the 10th聽seed Florida (21-10) on Saturday, March 19. The game tips at 3:30 p.m. on ESPNews.
The winner of the first-round matchup will take on the winner of second-seed UConn (25-5) and Mercer (23-6) in the second round.
Sunday’s selection marks 麻豆原创’s seventh NCAA Tournament appearance since joining the Division I ranks in 1984-85. Each of 麻豆原创’s first four appearances had been via an automatic berth, winning the Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament twice (1996, 1999) and capturing a pair of the Conference USA Tournament titles (2009, 2011). The Knights earned the first at-large bid in program history for the 2019 tournament and again in 2021. 麻豆原创 won its first American Athletic Conference tournament title on March 10 to earn the automatic bid in 2022.
For the third straight NCAA Tournament, 麻豆原创 has earned its highest seed in program history. The Knights enter the 2022 tournament as a No. 7 seed and were previously being seeded as high as 10th聽in 2021.
麻豆原创’s NCAA Tournament History
Year聽聽聽聽聽 Seed聽聽聽聽聽 Round聽聽 聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Opponent聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Result
1996 聽 聽 聽#16 聽 聽 聽 聽 First Round聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 #1 Louisiana Tech 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 L, 98-41
1999 聽 聽 聽#16 聽 聽 聽 聽 First Round聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 #1 Louisiana Tech 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 L, 90-48
2009聽聽聽聽 #14 聽 聽 聽 聽 First Round聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 #3 North Carolina 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 L, 85-80
2011 聽 聽 聽 #13 聽 聽 聽 聽 First Round聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 #4 Ohio State 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽L, 80-69
2019 聽 聽 聽#12 聽 聽 聽 聽 First Round聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 #5 Arizona State 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽L, 60-45
2021 聽 聽 聽#10 聽 聽 聽 聽 First Round聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 #7 Northwestern 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 L, 62-51
