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CHARLOTTESVILLE Virginia women’s basketball returns to the NCAA Tournament as a No. 4 seed and will face No. 13 seed UC Santa Barbara in Norfolk, Va., in the first round on Sunday, March 23, at approximately 9:30 p.m. The Virginia Athletics Ticket Office will be selling tickets to fans for
the Cavaliers’ first-round game through 5 p.m. Tuesday.
The Cavaliers enter the tournament with a 23-9 overall record and are ranked No. 24/23 in the national polls.
The other game in the pod features No. 5 seed Old Dominion vs. No. 12 seed Liberty. The second round matchup takes place on Tuesday, March 25.
The games will be played at the Ted Constant Convocation Center in Norfolk, Va. For ticket information click here.
After being picked to finish sixth in the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Cavaliers posted an impressive 10-4 league mark and stormed to a fourth seed in the conference tournament. The ACC secured six bids, as Virginia is joined in the Big Dance by North Carolina, Maryland, Duke, Georgia Tech and Florida State.
The last time Virginia was in an NCAA Tournament was 2005, when it advanced to the second round.