Later Sunday night, look for our Zoom with, among others, the chair of NCAA Division I committee, Danielle Josette of Marquette; Nebraska coach John Cook, whose Huskers played 17 of the 64 teams in the field; Stanford junior outside Elia Rubin, Pitt junior middle Bre Kelley; Penn State coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley; and Minnesota coach Keegan Cook, whose Gophers played 13 of the teams on the bracket.
Two teams each from the ACC and Big Ten grabbed the coveted top four spots in the 2024 NCAA Tournament bracket.
ACC co-champion Pittsburgh (No. 1 overall, 29-1) Big Ten co-champion Nebraska (29-2), Big Ten co-champion Penn State (29-2) and Louisville, second in the ACC (25-5), are the No. 1 seeds.
The No. 2 seeds went to Stanford (25-4), which tied Louisville for second in the ACC and is in the Louisville regional; SMU (24-7) which finished fourth in the ACC, two games behind Stanford and is in the Pitt regional; Big East-champion Creighton (29-2), which has won 22 in a row and is in the Penn State regional; and Wisconsin (23-6), which finished third in the Big Ten and is in the Nebraska regional.
The tournament begins Thursday with first-round matches also on Friday.
Every first-round match…
