The women’s basketball squad reached their second consecutive NCAA March Madness tournament as an at-large bid, slotting in as a ninth seed in the Spokane region of the bracket. Tech drew the Kansas Jayhawks for their first round game, which was played on Stanford’s campus in Palo Alto as the top seed in that region. The game was a full 15 days after their previous game in the ACC Tournament, where they lost to Notre Dame in the quarterfinals.
The ninth seed certainly was not where the Jackets expected to be the majority of the season. Until a losing skid at the end of the season, the Jackets were in the AP top 25 for weeks, ranked as high as 11th and in line to host the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament.