UConn women’s basketball lands as 2-seed in Spokane 4 Regional

The Huskies will play 15-seed Arkansas State in the opening round and have a potential Elite Eight rematch with USC looming.

UConn women’s basketball’s path to a 12th national title is set. On Sunday, the Huskies were revealed as the 2-seed in the Spokane 4 Regional and will play 15-seed Arkansas State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday at Gampel Pavilion. Should they advance, they’ll then face the winner of 7-seed Oklahoma State and 10-seed South Dakota State on Monday.

Tip-time and television information will be announced tomorrow.

The rest of UConn’s region features 1-seed USC, 3-seed Oklahoma and 4-seed Kentucky. The Huskies and Trojans just faced off in Elite Eight last season and are now set up for a rematch.

Arkansas State won the Sun Belt Tournament to earn its first NCAA Tournament appearance. UConn has never played the Red Wolves.

The Huskies will enter their 37th NCAA Tournament appearance and are a 2-seed for just the seventh time in program history. They have advanced at least as far as the Sweet Sixteen in 30 consecutive seasons and have made 15 of the last 16 Final Fours.

UConn is lined up to travel to the Pacific Northwest for a third-straight season after going to Seattle in 2023 and Portland in 2024. If the Huskies make the Final Four in Tampa, they’ll have to make a pair of cross-country journeys.

Looking around the rest of the bracket, Creighton is the only other Big East team to make the field of 64, earning a 9-seed in the Birmingham 3 Regional. UConn ended up playing 12 NCAA Tournament teams this season: 1-seed South Carolina (SEC champions), 1-seed USC, 3-seed Notre Dame, 4-seed UNC, 5-seed Ole Miss, 5-seed Tennessee, 7-seed Louisville, 11-seed Iowa State, 12-seed USF (AAC champions), 14-seed Oregon State (WCC champions), 16-seed FDU (NEC champions) and the aforementioned Creighton squad.

Elsewhere, Shea Ralph’s Vanderbilt team is a 7-seed in the Birmingham 2 Regional, where it’ll play 10-seed Oregon, while Carla Berube’s Princeton squad snuck into a play-in game as an 11-seed against Iowa State. Just one other team from Connecticut made it in: 12-seed Fairfield, winners of the MAAC.