There is still ample reason for Tiger fans to be proud as its the highest seed for Missouri in the NCAA tournament since 1985(when it was limited to 32 teams) as well as the first time since 2001 that Mizzou men and women’s basketball has reached the NCAA Tournament in the same season. They deserve a ton of credit for that publicly, because so many times this year they could have just folded up and said, this is not why we came here. The Huskies are joined on the top line by Notre Dame, Mississippi State and Louisville. 2 seed in Lexington, a region that includes top-seeded Louisville, Tennessee and Stanford. Maryland has fallen short of NCAA tournament expectations the past two seasons. It also was the first time a 20-win Louisville team was left out of the field since the 1975 Louisville team was left out, but the NCAA field was only 32 teams then.
The field for the 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament is announced. Connecticut, the only remaining unbeaten Division I team of either sex, is the top overall seed, with Notre Dame, Louisville, and Mississippi State as the other #1 seeds.