The UCF women’s basketball team will take on Northwestern in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
The Knights (16-4, 12-2 AAC) earned the No. 10 seed in the Alamo Region and will face the No. 7-seed Wildcats (15-8, 11-7 Big Ten) Monday at 4 p.m. on ESPNU. Both teams qualified as at-large selections.
“It’s very nerve-wracking, and having to wait until the third round was like …,” UCF coach Katie Abrahamson-Henderson said. “You don’t know if you’re going to get in. You see all the predictions where we were the last four in. Or are we the last four out?