Ohio State women earn No. 4 seed for NCAA Tournament, to host opening round games
Mar 16, 2025
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Ohio State's women's basketball team is going dancing for the fourth consecutive season and are among the top seeds in its region of the bracket.
The Buckeyes were handed the No. 4 seed in Birmingham Regional 3, marking the third consecutive season Ohio State has earned a
top-four seed in the NCAA Tournament. As a top-four seed in its region, OSU will host first and second round games at the Schottenstein Center.
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In the opening round, the Buckeyes will host No. 13 seed Montana State, the Big Sky conference champions, on Friday. Tip-off time has yet to be announced. The other first round game in Columbus will be No. 5 Tennessee vs. No. 12 South Florida, also on Friday. The winners of each game play in the second round on Sunday.
The other top teams in the Buckeyes' region include No. 1 Texas, No. 2 TCU, and No. 3 Notre Dame. NCAA Tournament play begins Wednesday with the First Four round and concludes on April 6 with the national championship game in Tampa, Florida.
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Head coach Kevin McGuff has now made the NCAA Tournament in eight of the 12 seasons he has been at the helm at Ohio State. The Buckeyes have made four Sweet Sixteen appearances and one regional final under McGuff since the 2013-14 season.
As a two-seed in the 2024 tournament, the Buckeyes lost to Duke in the second round. They fell the year before that in the regional final to Virginia Tech as a three-seed. OSU's last Final Four appearance was in 1993.
In 2024-25, Ohio State had a 25-6 record that included a 13-5 Big Ten record and a perfect 15-0 mark at home. The Buckeyes finished third in the Big Ten standings and won their quarterfinal in the conference tournament over Iowa before falling to eventual champions UCLA in a semifinal.
The Bruins earned the No. 1 overall seed for the tournament for the first time while intraconference foes USC, the only team to beat UCLA, also earned a number one seed. In total, 12 Big Ten teams earned berths into the March Madness bracket.
Big Ten teams in March Madness (12 teams)
No. 1 UCLA
No. 1 USC
No. 4 Ohio State
No. 4 Maryland
No. 6 Iowa
No. 6 Michigan
No. 7 Michigan State
No. 8 Illinois
No. 9 Indiana
No. 10 Oregon
No. 10 Nebraska
No. 11 Washington
Leading the Buckeyes this season has been junior forward Cotie McMahon, the Big Ten's best first-year player Jaloni Cambridge, and senior Taylor Thierry, who is among the top defensive players in the nation. ...read more read less