In the long journey that is March Madness, the conference tournament is the first postseason stop the Longhorns will have to make on a journey they hope ends in Phoenix for the Final Four. The Longhorns (28-3, 13-3) split their games when they traveled to play Vanderbilt and Tennessee last month, but they recovered for a five-game win streak.<\/p>\n
Texas is tied for second in the SEC standings with Vanderbilt, and\u00a0will be seeded third in the conference tournament because it lost\u00a0\u00a086-70<\/a> to the Commodores. Even with the loss, the Longhorns are projected to be a high seed in the\u00a0NCAA Tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n Here is where Texas could be seeded based on bracketologists:\u00a0<\/p>\n ESPN bracketologist Charlie Creme<\/a> predicts Monday the SEC Tournament’s outcome will determine if the Longhorns hold onto their projected No. 1 seeding. The Longhorns are the fourth No. 1 seed in the Sacramento region of the bracket; the other three are South Carolina, UCLA and UConn. If Texas loses, the last No. 1 seed will go to either Vanderbilt or\u00a0LSU.\u00a0<\/p>\n But as it stands now, Texas would\u00a0host the first round of games in Austin and\u00a0play No. 16 High Point first. If Texas wins, it would play the winner of No. 8 USC and No. 9 Villanova at Moody Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n How can Texas keep the No. 1 seed?\u00a0<\/p>\n Simply put, Texas needs to win out.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Longhorns are resting until Friday where they take the court against either Missouri, Alabama and Tennessee.\u00a0<\/p>\n In this hypothetical, if the rest of the bracket holds true, Texas will have a rematch Saturday against Vanderbilt. In the postgame conference to the 16-point loss in Nashville, Tenn. head coach Vic Schaefer said<\/a>, “we have no heart. We’re not tough. It’s probably the softest team I’ve had in years.”<\/p>\n If Texas wins twice in the tournament, it\u00a0will face either South Carolina<\/a> or LSU<\/a> in the finals; Texas has gone 1-1 this season against both teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n The first opponent Texas will play in the SEC tournament is to be determined, but it will take the court at 7:30\u00a0p.m. Friday, March 6 in Bon Secours Wellness Arena.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the long journey that is March Madness, the conference tournament is the first postseason stop the Longhorns…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,83077,7456,231,772,83078,1544,81371,20766,20705],"class_list":["post-635407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-lsu-women-s-basketball","tag-march-madness","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaa-women-s-basketball-tournament","tag-ncaab","tag-sec-women-s-basketball","tag-texas-longhorns-womens-basketball","tag-vanderbilt-commodores"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116162184022126499","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}