2010 NCAA Womens Basketball Tournament Bracket: NCAA 2010 Womens Basketball Tournament Schedule – For the eighth straight year, the Atlantic Coast Conference will be represented by at least six teams in the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Field of 64. The ACC is one of only four leagues to place six or more teams in the 2010 Big Dance.
Ranked second in the nation, Pac-10 Champion Stanford (31-1) earned the No. 1 seed in the Sacramento Regional, the team’s first No. 1 seed since 1998. The Cardinal, who captured the Conference tournament crown for the fourth-straight year, faces No. 16 seed UC Riverside in the first round at home at Maples Pavilion on Saturday, March 20 at 7:30 p.m. PT. Stanford is led by Pac-10 Player of the Year and Pac-10 Tournament Most Outstanding Player sophomore Nnemkadi Ogwumike (Cypress, Texas). The winner of this game moves on to play the winner of the No. 8 seed Iowa (19-13)-No. 9 seed Rutgers (19-14) matchup on Monday, March 22.
Joining the Blue Devils among the top seeds selected for this year’s Tournament are the Florida State Seminoles, who own a 26-5 overall record and a share of the league’s regular season crown with Duke.
Florida State joins Duke as the only league team to be ranked in each Associated Press and USA Today/ESPN.com Top 25 polls of the season. In addition to Duke and Florida State as ACC representatives in this year’s NCAA Tournament are Georgia Tech, North Carolina, NC State and Virginia.
The Pac-10 has had at least two teams in the NCAA Tournament since the first year of the event in 1981-82. In 2006, the Bruins advanced to the second round while Stanford is looking to make its third-straight trip to the NCAA Final Four. The NCAA Final Four will be held in San Antonio, Texas on April 4 and 6.
All 63 games of the NCAA Tournament will be televised on the ESPN family of networks – ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN360.