The USC Trojans women’s basketball team is going dancing for the first time since Lindsay Gottlieb took over as head coach. The Women of Troy will be in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2014.
The Trojans lost to Oregon State in the Pac-12 Tournament opener, but their resume was more than enough to get them in the field of 68. Now, they will face the South Dakota State Jackrabbits on Friday in the Round of 64.
South Dakota State is 28-5. The Jackrabbits are unbeaten in conference play. They rolled through the Summit League without absorbing a loss. Accordingly, they have not lost a game yet in the calendar year. They are perfect in 2023 and will try to keep that unblemished mark intact when they take on the Trojans.
USC is the No. 8 seed. SDSU is the No. 9 seed. The two teams have been placed in what is called the Seattle 3 Region. There are only two regional sites this year: Greenville, S.C., and Seattle. USC went into one of the two Seattle brackets (Seattle 3 and Seattle 4). The other brackets are Greenville 1 and Greenville 2.
You can think of the Greenville brackets as the South and East Regions. The Seattle brackets are the West and Midwest Regions.
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