SAN ANTONIO–The 2026 American Women’s Basketball Tournament Champions will take on No. 1 seed UConn (34-0) on March 21 in Storrs, Connecticut, as part of the NCAA Tournament First Round, announced live on ESPN as part of Selection Sunday.
The No. 16 seed Roadrunners (18-15) will appear in the NCAA tournament for the third time in the program’s history, and the first since 2009. UTSA received an automatic bid to the tournament after winning four games in four days as the sixth seed at the American Championship, with a 54-40 win over No. 1 seed Rice.
Previously, UTSA received automatic bids for winning the Southland Conference Tournaments in 2008 and 2009, and for the first time in program history, UTSA is competing in postseason play for the third consecutive year after playing in the WNIT in 2024 and the WBIT in 2025.
With the selection, UTSA Head Women’s Basketball Coach Karen Aston becomes one of just 15 coaches to take three different programs to the NCAA Tournament, having done so at Charlotte in 2009 and at Texas for six consecutive years from 2014-19.
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