NCAA Tournament: Colorado Buffaloes women's team goes dancing for second straight year, Denver hosting men's games
March Madness is here! On Selection Sunday 136 teams -- 68 on the men's side and 68 on the women's -- earn a chance to play on college basketball's biggest stage.
For the second consecutive season, the Colorado Buffaloes women's team is going dancing.
The Buffs earned a 6th seed and are heading east to take on 11th seed Middle Tennessee on Saturday in Durham, North Carolina, at Duke University. Middle Tennessee won the Conference USA Tournament championship game over the weekend.
Last season, CU lost in the first round and the team says they learned a lot about how to approach the tournament and how to find more success this year.
"I do expect us to handle it differently. I think we have a great group of upper classmen, veterans that didn't perform the way they wanted to last year in the NCAA Tournament," said head coach JR Payne. "Since that time we've really wanted to perform the way that we know we're capable of."
There are 7 total teams from the Pac-12 Conference in the tournament this year.
Denver will host the following men's teams in the first round of the tournament this Friday at Ball Arena.
- Baylor vs. UC Santa Barbara, 11:30 a.m.
- Creighton and North Carolina State, 2 p.m.
- TCU vs. the winner of Arizona State vs. Nevada (play-in game), 8:05 p.m.
- Gonzaga vs. Grand Canyon, 5:35 p.m.
The winners will move on to the second round, which will also be in Denver on Sunday.
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The CU men's team will be playing in the first round of the NIT on Tuesday against Seton Hall.
