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Where LSU women's basketball stands in updated March Madness bracket predictions
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BATON ROUGE — We are now less than one month away from the start of postseason for women's college basketball.
Conference tournaments tipoff across the country at the beginning of next month as 32 teams will look to win conference titles and automatic berths into the NCAA Tournament.
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No. 4 LSU women's basketball has been projected to make the Field of 68 since the outset of the season and after winning 25 of its first 26 games, currently sitting in a tie for first-place in the Southeastern Conference race, Kim Mulkey 's team making the tourney is no question.
Biggest question surrounding the Tigers (25-1, 10-1 SEC) is could they close strong enough down the stretch before Selection Sunday to land on the No. 1 seed line?
The case for that continues at No. 6 Texas (24-2, 10-1), fresh off of upsetting No. 2 South Carolina, 66-62, in Austin, in a matchup of teams vying for the top-seed line the NCAA Tournament Sunday (2 p.m., ABC).
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Kim Mulkey, LSU women's basketball projected as a No. 2 seed
LSU has been on the No. 2 line for much of this season, but there's room for upward movement. ESPN women's bracketologist Charlie Creme has said there are six teams still in the mix to end up a No. 1 seed in the tournament and LSU is one of them.
He has the Tigers as the No. 2 in the Birmingham 3 Region with Notre Dame as the No. 1 in the quarter of the bracket. LSU would host No. 15 Purdue-Fort Wayne in the opening round and would meet the winner of No. 7 Florida State and No. 10 Indiana.
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The Athletic projects LSU in the same region as Notre Dame but has them in the Birmingham 3 Region. In the Baton Rouge regional in its bracketology, the Tigers would open the tournament against No. 15 Lehigh and would face the winner of No. 7 Utah-No. 10 Nebraska.
LSU's NCAA Tournament résumé
Outside of projected No. 1 overall seed UCLA, no other team has a win percentage in quad 1 and 2 games than LSU at 11-1. LSU has four ranked wins on the season, two over Tennessee, one over Oklahoma and Vanderbilt each.
Among the group that's vying for a No. 1 seed, LSU has the worst NET ranking, a tool the selection committee uses when deciding seeding and selection in the NCAA Tournament, at No. 9 in the country.
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A win over Texas Sunday on the road would be a big boost for the Tigers in their pursuit of the top line.
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Cory Diaz covers the LSU Tigers for The Daily Advertiser as part of the USA TODAY Network. Follow his Tigers coverage on Twitter: @ByCoryDiaz. Got questions regarding LSU athletics? Send them to Cory Diaz at bdiaz@gannett.com .
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