Selection Sunday for the women’s basketball NCAA tournament is less than a month away.
The NCAA released its first top 16 seedings on Sunday to preview what the field could look like when the brackets are revealed on March 16. If the season ended today, UCLA would be the No. 1 overall seed. Defending national champion South Carolina, Texas, and Notre Dame would join the Bruins as No. 1 seeds.
Despite USC upending rival UCLA earlier in the week, the Trojans, LSU, UConn, and NC State project as the No. 2 seeds. TCU, Duke, North Carolina, and Kansas State project as the No. 3 seeds, while Kentucky, Ohio State, Oklahoma and Tennessee are the four seeds.
But where might HBCU women’s basketball teams be seeded?
HBCU bracketology
In ESPN’s latest bracketology update for women’s basketball, analyst Charlie Creme projects Norfolk State as the No. 14 seed in the Birmingham region.
The Spartans would play No. 3 seed Ohio State of the Big 10 and the winner of the No. 6 and 11 seed in Creme’s projection if they were to move on.
Texas Southern, which is tied for first place in the SWAC with Jackson State and Southern, is projected as a No. 16 seed along with current CAA leader North Carolina A&T. Both are slotted to face off against each other in the First Four, according to the ESPN bracket.
Another bracketology website, Her Hoops Stats, projects NSU similarly as a No. 14 seed in the Spokane region against No. 3 seed Tennessee.
Surprisingly, Alabama A&M is predicted to win the SWAC and represent the conference as a No. 16 seed in the First Four, according to Her Hoop Stats. The Bulldogs are currently 17-8 overall and 10-3 in the conference.
