After a one-year absence, the University of Kentucky women’s basketball team is back in the Big Dance.
On Monday afternoon the Wildcats received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. Kentucky is the No. 6 seed in the Greensboro (N.C.) Region and will begin its tournament run against No. 11 seed Princeton on Saturday.
The team learned its tournament fate a couple hours earlier than expected. ESPN was supposed to televise the NCAA Selection Show at 7 p.m. Monday, but its college sports channel, ESPNU, inadvertently revealed a large portion of the bracket around 4 p.m. After the pairings were shared around social media for an hour, ESPN issued an apology, then made the decision to move the Selection Show broadcast to 5 p.