Louisville joins South Carolina, Stanford and NC State in securing No. 1 seeds in NCAA women's basketball tournament

The Louisville Cardinals maintained a No. 1 seed in the NCAA women's basketball tournament despite losing in the ACC tournament quarterfinals, while the Iowa Hawkeyes' recent surge and Big Ten tournament title earned them a No. 2 seed in the Greensboro, N.C. regional that also features No. 1 South Carolina, the 2022 tournament bracket announcement revealed on Selection Sunday.

Louisville appeared to be at risk of sliding to a No. 2 after its loss to Miami in the ACC tournament and as the Baylor Bears went on a tear throughout Big 12 play. Baylor ultimately fell to Texas in the Big 12 tournament championship game Sunday afternoon, keeping the Bears on the two-line and bumping the Longhorns up to a No. 2 seed as well.

South Carolina, Stanford, the defending national champion, and NC State were the other top seeds, as expected, and will play in the Greensboro, Spokane, Wash., and Bridgeport, Conn. regionals, respectively. South Carolina is the No. 1 overall seed.

In addition, the UConn Huskies — who played without reigning national player of the year Paige Bueckers for 19 games due to a knee injury — were tabbed the No. 2 seed in the Bridgeport region. The last time the Huskies did not play in a Bridgeport or Albany regional was when they traveled west to Omaha, Neb. in 2014 — a year where there was no regional based in the northeast. UConn was slotted in the Greensboro regional in the women's basketball championship committee's third mid-season reveal.

Kentucky — who shocked the world by upsetting the one, two and three seeds in the SEC tournament, including South Carolina, to win the conference title — is a No. 6 seed in Bridgeport, after they were projected to miss out on the Big Dance a month ago.

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