Texas Prepares For NCAA Tourney After Winning Big 12 Tournament

The second-seeded Longhorns will face Colgate in the first round of the Midwest Region in Des Moines on Thursday. Houston enters the NCAA Tournament as a number-one seed despite its loss in the AAC final. The Cougars will challenge 16th-seeded Northern Kentucky in the first round of the Midwest Region in Birmingham on Thursday night.  Baylor is the third-seed in the South Region. The Bears will play UC Santa Barbara in Denver on Friday afternoon. TCU is the sixth-seed in the West Region and play the winner of the First Four matchup between Arizona State and Nevada in Denver on Friday night. Texas A&M will play Penn State in Des Moines on Thursday night in the Midwest Region. The Aggies are the seventh-seed. In the First Four, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi will play Southeast Missouri State while Texas Southern matches up against Fairleigh Dickinson.