COLLEGE STATION- Texas A&M women’s basketball was selected to its 14th straight NCAA Tournament on Monday afternoon, earning a No. 4-seed and the right to host First-and-Second Round games in Reed Arena, starting the 2019 NCAA Tournament on Friday, March 22 against Wright State, with television coverage on ESPN2 at 3 p.m.
This marks the second straight season, and the sixth time in eight years, that Texas A&M has hosted First and Second Round games, and the 11th time in the past 13 seasons that Texas A&M has earned a Top 4-seed in the Big Dance.
The Aggies (24-7) enter the 64-team tournament as a 4-seed in the Chicago Regional, as an at-large selection. Texas A&M opens the tournament against 13-seed Wright State (27-6), an automatic qualifier from the Horizon League.
Reed Arena also welcomes 5-seed Marquette (26-7), an at-large out of the Big East and 12-seed Rice (28-3), the automatic qualifier from Conference USA. The winner of that game (1 p.m., Friday) faces the Texas A&M-Wright State winner in the Second Round on Sunday, March 24 inside Reed Arena.
The winner of the College Station First-and-Second Round site faces the winner of the Notre Dame First-and-Second Round site that features Notre Dame, Central Michigan, Michigan State and Bethune-Cookman in the Chicago Regional on March 30.
The Aggies are one of seven schools to have qualified for at least 14 consecutive NCAA Tournaments, joining Baylor, Connecticut, DePaul, Notre Dame, Stanford and Tennessee. Baylor, Connecticut, Stanford and Texas A&M are the only schools of the group who have been seeded sixth-or-higher in all 14 of those seasons.
Story Courtesy of Texas A&M Athletics