Vanderbilt WBB Receives NCAA Tournament Seed, Opponent: The Anchor – Sports Illustrated

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Vanderbilt women’s basketball got its answer on who it will be hosting in the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament.
The Commodores were selected as a No. 2 seed with UConn being the No. 1 seed in the region. Vanderbilt will host No. 15 seed High Point at Memorial Gymnasium at 6 p.m. CT Sunday. If Vanderbilt wins, it will play the winner of No. 7 seed Illinois and No. 10 seed Colorado.
Vanderbilt’s seeding is not at all a surprise. The Commodores have been projected as a No. 2 seed for weeks now after what was a historic regular season for the program. Despite losing in the quarterfinals to Ole Miss, it seems as though the committee did not punish Vanderbilt after all.
Being in the same region as UConn creates a very intriguing and must-watch matchup in the Elite Eight if both teams get there. Vanderbilt head coach Shea Ralph used to be on the UConn coaching staff with head coach Geno Auriemma, so if the Commodores and Huskies met in Fort Worth come that round it would be a great matchup of two of the best teams in the country.
Vanderbilt enters the season with a 27-4 record, the most wins in a season in program history with an opportunity to set a record that would be incredibly difficult to beat. Vanderbilt and High Point tipoff at 6 p.m. CT March 21 on ESPNews.
174 days
No. 4 seed Vanderbilt lost to No. 3 seed Arkansas 86-75.
Vanderbilt women’s tennis beat Alabama 4-3.
Vanderbilt baseball lost to No. 13 LSU 16-9.
There are no games scheduled.
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Graham Baakko is a writer for Vanderbilt Commodores On SI, primarily covering football, basketball and baseball. Graham is a recent graduate from the University of Alabama, where he wrote for The Crimson White, WVUA-FM, WVUA 23 as he covered a variety of Crimson Tide sports. He also covered South Carolina athletics as a sportswriting intern for GamecockCentral.
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