Here is the schedule and a printable bracket for the 2025 women’s NCAA basketball tournament
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NCAA Selection Sunday 2025: Brackets, analysis, predictions and more
Click below for more of the Herald-Leader’s and Kentucky.com’s coverage of Selection Sunday 2025 as brackets are revealed for the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournaments.
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The draw was revealed for the 2025 NCAA women’s basketball tournament on Sunday night.
Click here to obtain a printable bracket you can use to make your predictions.
The NCAA made Big Ten Conference Tournament champion UCLA the overall No. 1 seed for the 68-team event, which tips off Wednesday and Thursday with First Four games.
UCLA (30-2) is the No. 1 seed in Spokane (Washington) Regional 1.
The Bruins finished second to Southern California in the Big Ten in the regular season before beating the Trojans in the conference tournament finals.
South Carolina, the defending national champion from the Southeastern Conference, is the No. 1 seed in Birmingham (Alabama) Regional 2.
Texas, a newcomer to the SEC this season, is the No. 1 seed in Birmingham Regional 3.
Southern California is the No. 1 seed in Spokane Regional 4.
Kentucky (22-7) received the No. 4 seed in the Spokane Regional 4 and will open against No. 13 Liberty University (26-6) on Friday at noon (ESPN) at Memorial Coliseum in Lexington.
The other No. 4 seeds along with Kentucky were Baylor (Spokane 1), Maryland (Birmingham 2) and Ohio State (Birmingham 3).
Louisville (21-10) was awarded a No. 7 seed in the Birmingham 3 Regional and will play its first game against No. 10-seed Nebraska (21-11) on Friday (6 p.m., ESPN)
Murray State (25-7) drew the No. 11 seed in the Spokane 4 Regional and will open versus No. 6 seed Iowa (22-10) on Saturday (Noon, ESPN).
Kentucky was one of 10 teams selected from the Southeastern Conference, joined by Alabama, LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Vanderbilt. The Big Ten, with 12 teams, was the only conference with more.
The semifinals and finals in each region will be played March 28-31 at Legacy Arena in Birmingham and Spokane Arena in Spokane. Eight teams will compete at each site instead of the four teams at four regional sites used in earlier years.
The women’s Final Four is set for April 4 and 6 at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida.
This story was originally published March 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM.
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