The NCAA Tournament is headed back to The J.
After a historic regular season that saw them knock off heavyweights UCLA and Washington (among other non-conference foes) before claiming their eighth Big Ten Regular Season Championship, Kate Drohan’s Northwestern Wildcats are playing host in the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament. The ‘Cats, who were selected as the ninth-overall team in the field, will host the Oakland Golden Grizzlies on Friday, with Notre Dame and McNeese filling in the rest of the regional.
NU’s 9-seed is its highest since 2007, when it was seeded second in the field by the committee before eventually reaching the Women’s College World Series.