The American Athletic Conference champion Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ women’s basketball team returns to NCAA Tournament for the third time in the last four years. Katie Abrahamson-Henderson and the Knights earned the league’s automatic bid to the tournament and are the seventh seed in Storrs, Connecticut.
Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ (25-3) will take on the 10th 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 Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½’s seventh NCAA Tournament appearance since joining the Division I ranks in 1984-85. Each of Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½’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. Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ won its first American Athletic Conference tournament title on March 10 to earn the automatic bid in 2022.
For the third straight NCAA Tournament, Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ 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 in 2021.
Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½’s NCAA Tournament History
Year     Seed     Round               Opponent                       Result
1996    #16     First Round       #1 Louisiana Tech       L, 98-41
1999    #16     First Round       #1 Louisiana Tech       L, 90-48
2009    #14     First Round       #3 North Carolina       L, 85-80
2011    #13     First Round       #4 Ohio State           L, 80-69
2019    #12     First Round       #5 Arizona State         L, 60-45
2021    #10     First Round       #7 Northwestern        L, 62-51
