Texas joins No. 1s in projected women's NCAA tournament seeds - ESPN

Texas joined UConn, UCLA and South Carolina as the No. 1 seeds in the NCAA women's basketball tournament's latest projections announced Sunday on ESPN, with Iowa and Oklahoma making the biggest jumps since the first reveal of the top 16 seeds on Feb. 14.

The Hawkeyes are now projected as the No. 6 seed overall, up from No. 11. The Sooners are No. 12, up from No. 16. Iowa and Oklahoma both have won five in a row.

The biggest drop was Ohio State, which fell from No. 9 to No. 16. The only team that fell out of the top 16 from the first reveal is Ole Miss, which was replaced by Minnesota, which is now No. 15.

The projected top 16 seeds for the women's NCAA tournament, as released by the NCAA.

Vanderbilt, which beat Texas on Feb. 12, was the fourth No. 1 seed in the initial projections on Feb. 14. However, after losing to Georgia the following day, the Commodores fell one spot behind the Longhorns as those two SEC teams switched places during Sunday's reveal.

«We were all viewing it the same way, in the conversation it was so close and that head-to-head tipped the scales last time,» NCAA women's basketball selection committee chair Amanda Braun told The Associated Press. «The loss [to Georgia] tipped it back. The overall resume of Texas is stronger than Vanderbilt in a few different ways.»

Overall, there are seven teams from the Big Ten, five from the SEC, two from the ACC, one from the Big 12 and one from the Big East in this top 16. In addition, all four of the No. 4 seeds in each region are from the Big Ten.

«Every element we look at, the Big Ten has a lot of really good teams,» Braun told The Associated Press. «We don't really know how many are going in as we are doing it one-by-one and then they are seven of the best