COLUMBUS —The Ohio State women’s basketball team will begin the NCAA Tournament at home again.
Coach Kevin McGuff’s Buckeyes received a No. 2 seed and will face No. 15 Maine in the first round at Value City Arena in Columbus at noon Friday.
The winner of that game will play No. 7 seed Duke or No. 10 Richmond.
McGuff told reporters after the announcement his team is happy to have an opponent to focus on more than a week after getting knocked out of the Big Ten Tournament early by Maryland on March 8.
“I think we learned from that tough loss and also kind of moved past it and tried to focus just on ourselves and getting better,” McGuff said.
Ohio State (25-5) will play in the women’s NCAA Tournament for the 28th time overall and eighth during McGuff’s tenure, although appearances in 2017 and ‘18 were vacated because of NCAA sanctions against an assistant coach.
