{"id":222055,"date":"2026-03-16T13:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/222055\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T13:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:04:11","slug":"usc-receives-ninth-seed-in-sacramento-2-region-in-ncaa-womens-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/222055\/","title":{"rendered":"USC Receives Ninth Seed in Sacramento 2 Region in NCAA Women&#8217;s Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USC received the ninth seed in the Sacramento 2 region Sunday and will face eighth-seeded Clemson on Saturday in a first-round game at Columbia, South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>The Trojans (17-13) enter the tournament with a four-game losing streak that followed a six-game winning streak. The Tigers (21-11) have lost two of their last three.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the first meeting between the teams.<\/p>\n<p>The 12:30 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time game will be televised by ESPN2.<\/p>\n<p>The USC-Clemson winner will face the winner of the game between top-seeded South Carolina and the winner of Thursday\u2019s First Four game between Samford and Southern on March 23.<\/p>\n<p>The women\u2019s tournament has two regional sites where two regional finals both occur, whereas the men\u2019s tournament has four regional sites where one regional final occurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"USC received the ninth seed in the Sacramento 2 region Sunday and will face eighth-seeded Clemson on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[9591,9527,25595,10263,121,123,122,15192,12967,83367],"class_list":["post-222055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-ncaa","tag-ninth","tag-receives","tag-region","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-seed","tag-tournament","tag-womens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}