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The UWGB women will play Minnesota in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament.
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay women’s basketball team earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament with a win over Youngstown State in the Horizon League title game last week. It learned its opponent for the Big Dance while together at the Kress Center on March 15 after a watch party with fans at The Bar on Holmgren Way was canceled because of inclement weather. UWGB received a No.
13 seed and will play No. 4 Minnesota on March 20 in Minneapolis in the first round of the NCAA tournament. The Phoenix is making its 21st appearance in the NCAAs and its third straight.
It is 6-20 all time in tournament play. UWGB has lost in the opening round in each of its last seven trips, including an 81-67 defeat to Alabama in 2025. It last won a game in 2012, when as a No.
7 seed it beat No. 10 Iowa State in the first round before almost pulling off an upset against No. 2 Kentucky in 65-62 loss in the second round.