STORRS -- Like they do every year, the UConn women’s basketball team gathered in the locker room to watch the Selection Show for the NCAA Tournament. They didn’t know their seed or opponent until it flashed across the screen that they would be heading to the Albany Regional as a 2 seed.
On the surface, this seems like normal operating procedure. But this year’s bracket unveiling was far from normal.
Around 3:20 p.m. on Selection Monday, ESPNU was airing a rerun of “Bracketology.” All was normal until the screen shrunk and sidebar slid in with the complete bracket for the women’s basketball tournament.