TCU to Face Dayton in NCAA First Round Saturday
3/15/2010 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
March 15, 2010
TCU NCAA TOURNAMENT CENTRAL | NCAA BRACKET 
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FORT WORTH—TCU was selected for an at-large bid to the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship Monday, marking the program's ninth bid in the last 10 years. The Frogs were anointed the No. 9 seed in the Memphis regional and will face No. 8 seed Dayton on Saturday, March 20 in Knoxville, Tenn. The contest, which tips off at 1:30 p.m. CT, will be televised live by ESPN2.
The winner of the TCU-Dayton game will face the winner of the first-round matchup between No. 1 seed Tennessee and 16th-seeded Austin Peay on Monday.
The Frogs posted a 22-8 overall record this season and won their first Mountain West Conference regular-season championship with a 12-4 league mark. The team was eliminated from the MWC Tournament last Wednesday by Utah in the semifinal round.
Dayton posted a 24-7 overall record this season and finished second in the Atlantic 10 Conference with an 11-3 mark. Three of the team's losses have come to A-10 champion Xavier, which is ranked No. 5 in the latest ESPN/USA Today coaches' poll. Like the Frogs, the Flyers earned an at-large bid to the NCAA field after falling in the semifinals of their conference tournament.
TCU and Dayton share no common opponents this season and will be meeting for the first time ever on the hardwood in Knoxville.
The NCAA Tournament bid is the ninth all-time for TCU, which has reached the second round of the tournament in five of its previous eight trips to the Big Dance, in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2006. The squad fell to seventh-seeded South Dakota State in the first round of the Raleigh Regional a year ago as the No. 10 seed, 90-55, in its last NCAA appearance.
TCU was one of two Mountain West Conference squads picked for the tournament. San Diego State, which won the conference tournament last weekend, is the No. 11 seed in the Memphis region and will face No. 6 Texas Sunday in Austin, Texas. The Aztecs and Frogs would meet in the Regional Final if both teams win their first three matchups.
For the eighth consecutive year, the ESPN networks will combine to present all 63 games from the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship. During the first two rounds, ESPN and ESPN2 will present the 48 games within 12 telecast windows in a whip-around format with home market protection. ESPN360.com will offer complete game telecasts of all 63 games, while ESPNU will offer select ESPN and ESPN2 early-round games in their entirety. The final 15 games (regional semifinals on) will have national telecast windows on ESPN or ESPN2.
For ticket information, call (817) 257-FROG or visit www.GoFrogs.com.
