{"id":126805,"date":"2022-03-15T09:57:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T13:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=126805"},"modified":"2024-04-16T16:55:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T20:55:39","slug":"womens-hoops-earns-highest-ncaa-tournament-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/womens-hoops-earns-highest-ncaa-tournament-seed\/","title":{"rendered":"Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½ Women’s Basketball Earns Highest NCAA Tournament Seed"},"content":{"rendered":"
The American Athletic Conference champion Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½ women’s basketball team returns to NCAA Tournament for the third time in the last four years.\u00a0Katie Abrahamson-Henderson\u00a0and the Knights earned the league’s automatic bid to the tournament and are the seventh seed in Storrs, Connecticut.<\/p>\n
Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½ (25-3) will take on the 10th<\/sup>\u00a0seed Florida (21-10) on Saturday, March 19. The game tips at 3:30 p.m. on ESPNews.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Sunday’s selection marks Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½’s seventh NCAA Tournament appearance since joining the Division I ranks in 1984-85. Each of Âé¶¹Ó³»´«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. Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½ won its first American Athletic Conference tournament title on March 10 to earn the automatic bid in 2022.<\/p>\n For the third straight NCAA Tournament, Âé¶¹Ó³»´«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<\/sup>\u00a0in 2021.<\/p>\n Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½’s NCAA Tournament History<\/strong><\/p>\n Year\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Seed\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Round\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Opponent\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Result<\/p>\n 1996 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0#16 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 First Round\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 #1 Louisiana Tech \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 L, 98-41<\/p>\n 1999 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0#16 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 First Round\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 #1 Louisiana Tech \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 L, 90-48<\/p>\n 2009\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 #14 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 First Round\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 #3 North Carolina \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 L, 85-80<\/p>\n 2011 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 #13 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 First Round\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 #4 Ohio State \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0L, 80-69<\/p>\n 2019 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0#12 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 First Round\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 #5 Arizona State \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0L, 60-45<\/p>\n 2021 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0#10 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 First Round\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 #7 Northwestern \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 L, 62-51<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Knights enter the 2022 tournament as a No. 7 seed and were previously being seeded as high as 10th<\/sup>\u00a0in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":126806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4857,5198],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-126805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ucf-athletics","tag-womens-basketball"],"yoast_head":"\n