UConn women’s basketball a 2-seed in Seattle Region 3, to play No. 15 Vermont in first round

UConn girls’s basketball’s path to a twelfth nationwide championship was revealed on Choice Sunday. The Huskies are a 2-seed within the Seattle Regional 3 and can play the No. 15 Vermont Catamounts within the first spherical of the NCAA Match in Storrs, Connecticut. Tip-off is ready for Saturday, March 11.

With a win, UConn would face the winner of 7-seed Baylor and 10-seed Alabama within the second spherical on Monday, March 13.

Vermont (25-6) received the America East Convention, defeating Albany within the championship recreation by a last rating of 38-36. UConn is 11-0 all-time towards the Catamounts. The 2 groups final confronted off on Dec. 12, 2009 at Gampel Pavilion and so they beforehand met within the first spherical of the 2009 NCAA Match.

Assuming all seeds maintain, the Huskies would then face 3-seed Ohio State within the Candy Sixteen adopted by a possible matchup with 1-seed Virginia Tech looming for the Elite Eight.

UConn has made 28 straight Candy Sixteens, 16 straight Elite Eights and 14 consecutive Last Fours.

The Huskies have confronted 14 groups that made the NCAA Match discipline. Villanova (4-seed in Greenville Area 2), 6-seed Creighton, 9-seed Marquette and 11-seed St. John’s made it from the Large East, as did No. 1 total seed South Carolina, 2-seed Maryland, 2-seed Iowa, 3-seed Duke, 3-seed Notre Dame, 4-seed Tennessee (additionally within the Seattle 3 Area), 4-seed Texas, 7-seed Florida State, 7-seed NC State and 10-seed Princeton.

The final time UConn traveled someplace apart from Bridgeport or Albany for a regional (except for the 2021 bubble event held in San Antonio) was 2014, when it went to Lincoln, Nebraska. The Huskies final went to the West Coast in 2007 for the Fresno Regional.