USC and UCLA, fourth and n ° 9, will open the NCAA women's football tournament at home, the Trojans meeting the state of Sacramento on Sunday at the Dignity Health Sports Park and the Bruins welcoming the champion of the Western Athletic Conference Cal Baptist on Friday.
The two teams in southern California won championships during their first seasons in Big Ten, UCLA UCLA for the regular season conference title while the Bruins won the Conference Tournament in the playoffs by beating Rutgers on Sunday.
The USC (15-1-3) is the head of n ° 1 in its NCAA support, while the UCLA (16-3-3) is a seeded n ° 2 in its regional behind Duke, the best classified team in the country in the united football coaches.
N ° 22 Pepperdine (12-3-5), which shared the Championship of the West Coast conference with Santa Clara, also made the tournament and will welcome Cal (12-5-2) during his first match in Malibu, while UC Santa Barbara (8-5-9) will go on the road on Friday to play at n ° 14 Stanford (13-4-1).
In the female football tournament of the NCAA division III, the title champion Cal Lutheran (12-3-4) will face Trinity, Texas (16-1-2) and Pomona-Pitzer (15-2-2), the highest team in the region, will meet UC Santa Cruz (10-2-5) Saturday in Pomona-Pitzer, Will Sciac Winder, Clar-Muddd-Script (13-3-3) Mass., To face Colby (11-4-3), also on Saturday.
In the male tournament in division III, the Claremont-Mudd-script conference champion (13-3-3) will play Ogleyorpe (9-2-6) on Saturday in Colorado Springs, Colo.
