ACU Women To Learn NCAA Tournament Fate
By: Eric Boynton
Updated: March 9, 2013
ABILENE
- The ACU women's basketball team will learn its post-season fate at 9 p.m.
Sunday night when the NCAA announces the full 64-team field for the NCAA
Division II women's national tournament.
Fans
are invited to join the team in watching the tournament selection show Sunday
night in the classroom of the Teague Special Events Center on the ACU campus.
The classroom will be open to the public and the media starting at 8:30
p.m.
The
Wildcats (21-6) were ranked No. 3 in the latest NCAA Division II South Central
Region rankings and are expecting to receive their latest - and last - at-large
bid to the regional tournament. ACU last went to the regional tournament in
2008-09. The Wildcats are moving up to NCAA Division I affiliation and the
Southland Conference on July 1, 2013, so this will be the Wildcats' final chance
to reach the regional tournament.
ACU
shared the Lone Star Conference regular season championship with Midwestern
State, but the Wildcats were eliminated in the first round of the conference's
post-season tournament, thanks to an 80-79 loss to Texas
A&M-Commerce.
The
Wildcats last reached the NCAA tournament at the end of the 2008-09 season,
earning the No. 8 seed as an at-large participant. ACU hasn't won an NCAA
tournament game since beating Missouri Western, 86-83, in the semifinals of the
1998 regional tournament in Emporia, Kan.
