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Jimmie Women face Oregon Tech Wed., NAIA 1st round

Jamestown (UJ)  The 10th-ranked Jimmie women’s basketball team matches up against No. 23 Oregon Tech in the first round of the NAIA DII Women’s Basketball National Championships, as announced by the NAIA office Wednesday.

Jamestown (25-5) is the #3 seed in the Liston Bracket while Oregon Tech (24-8) is the sixth seed. Game time is 1:45 p.m. on Wednesday, March 8.

The Jimmies will be looking to exact revenge against the Owls, who defeated UJ 71-64 in the opening round of last year’s national tournament.

 

The field is made up of 22 automatic berths and 10 at-large selections. Automatic qualification is given to conference regular-season champions, tournament champions or tournament runners-up depending on the conference. At-large teams were determined using the final regular-season Coaches’ Top 25 Poll released last week.  For that release, click here.