Stanford earns No. 1 seed in Sacramento region; UConn expected to be overall No. 1

Stanford No. 1 in Sacramento region

Stanford has earned its first No. 1 seed since 1998 in the NCAA women’s basketball tournament.

Undefeated Connecticut is expected to earn the No. 1 overall seed. UConn (33-0), which has won an NCAA record 72 straight games, will try to complete the sixth perfect season in women’s basketball history as it goes for a seventh national championship.

The Cardinal (31-1) were the last team to beat Connecticut in the semifinals of the 2008 NCAA tournament. Stanford will host UC Riverside in the Sacramento region.

Other first-round games in the Sacramento region are: No. 8 Iowa vs. No. 9 Rutgers; No. 5 Georgia vs. No. 12 Tulane; No. 4 Oklahoma State vs. No. 13 Chattanooga; No. 6 Vanderbilt vs. No. 11 DePaul; No. 3 Xavier vs. No. 14 East Tennessee State; No. 7 Gonzaga vs. No. 10 North Carolina; and No. 2 Texas A&M vs. No. 15 Portland State.