USC women’s basketball makes first NCAA Tournament since 2014
The USC Trojans women’s basketball team had been absent from the NCAA Tournament since 2014. However, the Women of Troy are going dancing this season after finishing 21-9.
Despite a loss to Oregon State in the first round of the Pac-12 Tournament, Lindsay Gottlieb has brought the Trojans back to the Big Dance for the first time in almost a decade.
The Trojans went 11-7 in Pac-12 play, which is the same record as both UCLA and Arizona, and they even spent some time in the top 25 of the polls after stunning No. 2 Stanford in Los Angeles earlier this year.
USC hadn’t been in the top 25 for seven years, so Gottlieb is quickly turning things around after several rough few years in L.A. before she got here.
The Trojans, a No. 8 seed, will kick off the NCAA Tournament with a game against ninth-seeded South Dakota State in Blacksburg, Va. The winner likely plays top-seeded Virginia Tech in the second round.
