UConn, Stanford high 2 in early seek at seeding

The NCAA has launched the second indicate of the projected high 16 seeds in the Division I girls folk’s basketball match, plus the incontrovertible reality that the regionals — all held in San Antonio — will be named after smartly-known web sites in the city: the Alamo, the Hemisfair, the Mercado and the River Stroll.

The seed projections are through Saturday’s video games and do not retract into consideration video games on Sunday. The desire enlighten is Monday, March 15 at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN.

UConn is the overall high seed, adopted by No. 2 Stanford, No. 3 Texas A&M and No. 4 South Carolina. Those are the No. 1 regional seeds. Within the key indicate on Feb. 15, the head four had been UConn, South Carolina, Stanford and Louisville. The Cardinals accept fallen from the No. 4 seed overall to No. 9.

Easiest one workforce fell out of the head 16 from the key indicate: West Virginia, which used to be replaced by Arkansas. That offers the SEC six groups in the head 16 — Texas A&M, South Carolina, No. 11 Georgia, No. 13 Tennessee, No. 14 Kentucky and No. 16 Arkansas — for the most of any conference.

Meanwhile, the Pac-12 has four groups: Stanford, No. 7 Arizona, No. 10 UCLA and No. 15 Oregon.

The NCAA match will be held entirely in the San Antonio space, with some first-round video games in nearby San Marcos and Austin. All video games from the Candy 16 on will be on the Alamodome, with the Ladies folk’s Closing Four there on April 2 and 4.

As a result of it be a single-location occasion, there’ll be an even S-curve for the bracket, as an different of geography influencing where groups are positioned.

Within the national semifinals, the Alamo regional winner will face the Hemisfair winner, and the Mercado winner will meet the River Stroll winner.

Alamo location: 1. UConn, 2. Arizona, 3. Georgia, 4. Arkansas

Arizona is on this regional as an different of the River Stroll — which is where the Wildcats plunge on the S curve — to withhold Pac-12 foes Stanford and Arizona from being 1-2 in the identical location. Baylor goes to the River Stroll as an different.

River Stroll location: 1. Stanford, 2. Baylor, 3. Louisville, 4. Tennessee

Baylor moved up two spots from the closing indicate, from No. 10 overall to No. 8.

Mercado location: 1. Texas A&M, 2. Maryland, 3. UCLA, 4. Kentucky

The Aggies moved from No. 5 overall in the closing make known to No. 3 overall.

Hemisfair location: 1. South Carolina, 2. NC Mumble, 3. Indiana, 4. Oregon

The Wolfpack went from No. 6 closing time to No. 5, and basically based mostly utterly on Bracketologist Charlie Creme, NC Mumble is quiet in the mix for a No. 1 overall seed.