Coming off of being crowned the Pac-12 Tournament Champions, the Arizona Wildcats drew the 2-seed in the West Region. Their first game is scheduled for Thursday evening, at 6:50 p.m. MST, against the North Dakota Fighting Hawks.
The North Dakota Fight Hawks come into the tournament as the Big Sky regular season and conference tournament champions. This is the school’s first ever trip to the NCAA tournament.
It is also the first meeting between the two schools, but Arizona has some familiarity with the Big Sky Conference (i.e.- Northern Arizona). Also, in the 2014 NCAA tournament, the 1-seed Wildcats faced 16-seed Weber State from the Big Sky.