South Carolina leads projected No. 1 seeds in top-16 reveal for NCAA women's basketball tournament

South Carolina and Tennessee give the SEC two projected No. 1 seeds in the NCAA women's basketball tournament, and UConn, a No. 3 seed, is not slated to be in the region in Connecticut.

Those were among the major takeaways from the NCAA women's selection committee's first «reveal» of the top 16 seeds, which was released Thursday and based on results through Wednesday. The NCAA will have subsequent reveals on Feb. 10 and Feb. 28.

The women's tournament follows a so-called «geography curve,» where top seeds are slotted into the regionals closest to them. The Gamecocks are the overall No. 1 seed and are slotted into the Greensboro Region in North Carolina, about three hours from South Carolina's campus.

Top 16 seeds 1. South Carolina 2. Stanford 3. NC State 4. Tennessee 5. Louisville 6. Indiana 7. Texas 8. Arizona 9. Michigan 10. Iowa State 11. UConn 12. LSU 13. Baylor 14. Oregon 15. Georgia 16. Kansas State

Regional assignmentsBridgeport Region: 1. NC State, 2. Indiana, 3. LSU, 4. BaylorGreensboro Region: 1. South Carolina, 2. Arizona, 3. Michigan, 4. Kansas StateSpokane Region: 1. Stanford, 2. Texas, 3. UConn, 4. GeorgiaWichita Region: 1. Tennessee, 2. Louisville, 3. Iowa State, 4. Oregon

NC State is even closer to Greensboro, about an hour and a half away, but the Wolfpack are the No. 3 overall seed and thus slotted to be the top seed in the Bridgeport Region in Connecticut.

Stanford, projected as the No. 2 overall seed, is slotted to stay west as the top seed in the Spokane Region in Washington. And the No. 4 overall seed, Tennessee, is slotted as the top seed in the Wichita Region in Kansas.

There are four teams from both the SEC and the Big 12 in the top 16, three from the Pac-12, two from the ACC, two from the Big