{"id":525836,"date":"2026-03-15T23:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/525836\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T23:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:31:10","slug":"wildcats-earn-top-seed-in-west-for-ncaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/525836\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildcats earn top seed in West for NCAA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) &#8211; There was never any doubt about the Wildcats making the NCAA Tournament, the only questions were about where they would go and how they would be seeded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Now we know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After beating Houston to win the Big 12 Tournament, the Arizona Wildcats were named the top seed for the West Region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They will start their tournament run Friday, March 20, against Long Island University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Duke Blue Devils are the overall top seed for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">=====================================================<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Are you streaming 13 News?<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Watch a free live stream of Tucson Now and 13 News at <a href=\"https:\/\/tucsonnow.live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/tucsonnow.live\/\" target=\"_blank\">TucsonNow.Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Be sure to download the free Tucson Now app which you can find on <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/tucson-now\/id6746119929\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/tucson-now\/id6746119929\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.whiz.graytv.kold.tucsonnow.android&amp;hl=en_US\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.whiz.graytv.kold.tucsonnow.android&amp;hl=en_US\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If you are using a desktop computer, you can use your mobile device to scan the QR code below.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Tucson Now QR code\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773617470_225_YDUVR3R5PRBGPMNLJ5D4QGLEEA.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"980\" \/>Tucson Now QR code(13 News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">You can submit your <a href=\"https:\/\/ugc.zeam.com\/app\/gallery?albumId=4152&amp;theme=default\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/ugc.zeam.com\/app\/gallery?albumId=4152&amp;theme=default\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news or weather images here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 13 News. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) &#8211; There was never any doubt about the Wildcats making the NCAA Tournament, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20330,68036,4,450,2662,451,983,398,400,3,99,452,453,6671,570],"class_list":["post-525836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-arizona-news","tag-arizona-wildcats","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-college-sports","tag-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-university","tag-wildcats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}