BATON ROUGE – For the third straight year, the LSU women’s basketball team has earned the ability to host both first and second-round NCAA Tournament games.
LSU (28-5) earned the No. 3 seed in the Albany 2 Regional and will face off against No. 14 Rice (19-14) inside the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. The day and tip-off time is yet to determined.
If LSU defeats Rice, Kim Mulkey’s team would face the winner of the No. 6 Louisville (24-9) vs. No. 11 Middle Tennessee (29-4) game on Sunday for a chance to go to the Sweet Sixteen.
Kim Mulkey’s team earned a No. 3 seed last year and the Tigers were able to advance to the Final Four in Dallas, won the program’s first Final Four game, and then defeated Iowa in the national championship game.
LSU will be looking to become the first program to win back-to-back national titles since UConn accomplished the feat in 2015 and 2016.
After the first two rounds on campus sites, the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight games will take place March 29- April 1 in Albany, New York, and Portland, Oregon.
The Final Four will be held at the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland on April 5 for the national semifinals and April 7 for the national championship game.