NU Men and Women Make NCAA Tourny

The women’s Husker Basketball team celebrated hearing their name called for the third consecutive year, when the 68 bids for the NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship were announced during the ESPN Selection Show on Sunday evening.

Nebraska earned a No. 11 seed in the tournament and will face fellow No. 11 seed Richmond in the First Four in Durham, N.C., on Wednesday, March 18.  Game time and television information has yet to be announced.

If the Huskers can defeat the Spiders, they would face No. 6 seed Baylor on Friday at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The hosts from Duke earned the No. 3 seed as the automatic bid from the ACC.

After a record-breaking regular season, the Nebraska men’s basketball program is in the NCAA Tournament for the second time in three seasons as the NCAA Tournament bracket was revealed Sunday evening.

The Huskers (26-6) are the No. 4 seed in the South Region and will travel to South for the First and Second Rounds of the NCAA Tournament.  The Huskers will open tournament play on Thursday, March 19 against No. 13 seed Troy (22-11). Tipoff is set for 11:40 a.m. (CT) and the game will be carried on truTV.

The Huskers are making their ninth NCAA Tournament appearance in school history and the No. 4 seed is the Huskers’ highest NCAA seed since 1991).