After finishing the regular season 16-5 as the ninth-ranked team in the most recent AP and Coaches Polls, UCLA earned a no. 3 seed in the 2021 NCAA Tournament.
The Bruins are in the Hemisfair Region; there are no regional alignments this year since the entire competition will be held in San Antonio, so every region is named after a city landmark. Personally, I’d have preferred River Walk for the visuals, but UCLA got a decent draw here.
The no. 1 seed in the Hemisfair is South Carolina, no. 2 is Maryland — who had a realistic argument for being on the top line, and no.