Texas, Stanford, Wisconsin and Louisville are the four No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament.
San Diego was one of the four No. 2 seeds along with Minnesota, San Diego, Pittsburgh and Nebraska.
This year, the NCAA did not rank the seeds 1-16 but instead assigned 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 and seeded half the 64-team field. The No. 1 seeds get to be third- and fourth-round hosts if they win their first two matches. All four top seeds in each regional play at home for the first two rounds.
In the Texas regional, Texas plays FDU, Georgia plays Towson, Georgia Tech plays Wright State and Ball State plays Marquette, the fourth seed in the regional. In the other half of the Texas regional Ohio Stateis the third seed and the Buckeyes play Tennessee State, High Point plays USC, Florida State plays Northern Iowa and Southeastern Louisiana plays second-seeded Minnesota.
In the Stanford regional, the Cardinal play Pepperdine, LSU plays Hawai’i, Houston plays South Dakota and Auburn plays the No. 4 seed in the regional, Creighton. The third-seed is Kentucky, which plays Loyola Chicago, Bowling Green plays Western Kentucky, Washington State plays UNLV and San Diego is the second seed and plays Northern Colorado.
In the Wisconsin regional, the Badgers play Quinnipiac, TCU plays Washington, UCF plays Yale and UMBC plays the No. 4 seed, Penn State. The third seed is Florida, which plays Florida A&M, FGCU plays Iowa State, BYU plays James Madison and Colgate plays No. 2 Pittsburgh.
In the Louisville regional, the Cardinals play Samford, Tennessee plays Purdue, Rice plays Colorado and fourth-seeded Baylor plays Stephen F. Austin. The third seed is Oregon and plays Loyola Marymount, Utah State plays Arkansas, Miami plays Kansas and second-seeded Nebraska plays Delaware State.
NCAA committee chair Pauline Thiros, the athletic director at Idaho State, said Stanford edged San Diego for the last No. 1 seed.
The last four in, according to ESPN, was Auburn, Ball State, LMU and Pepperdine. The last three out were Colorado State, Texas State and UCLA.
Click here for the bracket at NCAA.com. For more on every team in the field, click here for our pre-selection conference-by-conference analysis.
First- and second-round matches are Thursday-Friday or Friday-Saturday on 16 host campuses. The regional (third and fourth rounds) are December 8 and 10. on the campuses of the top four seeds, provided they advance. If a top four seed loses the host honor trickles…
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