BUFFALO, N.Y. — The University at Buffalo women's basketball team learned its NCAA tournament fate Monday, albeit hours earlier than anticipated.
Seeded 10th in the Albany Region, the Bulls (23-9) will play seventh-seeded Rutgers (22-9) on Friday in Storrs, Connecticut.
The winner would likely play second-seeded Connecticut (31-2), which drew 15 seed Towson (20-12).
The ESPN selection show was scheduled to air at 7 p.m., but the bracket was accidentally revealed hours earlier, leaving schools scrambling as selection show watch parties by teams nationwide were thrown in limbo.
The Bulls won the MAC tournament last weekend for the second time in program history.
The fourth-seeded Bulls beat 2 seed Ohio 77-61 in the MAC championship game on Saturday afternoon. UB had four players in double figures.
Cierra Dillard was named the MAC tournament MVP.
UB Bulls freshman Hannah Hall told the media the team is very excited about the match-up.
"We worked really hard for this, for sure," she said. "We locked in, a lot of people underestimated us and a lot of people, didn’t believe that we’d be able to do it, but we really proved them wrong. So we’re excited, and we’re going to take it one quarter, one game at a time."
Head coach Felisha Legette-Jack said the team is young but talented.
"We’ve come a long way, we took a young team and grew them up really fast," she said. "We’re going to go out there prepared as ever to represent Buffalo and bring pride to this University."
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