It’s Notre Dame women's basketball vs. Stephen F. Austin to open its 2025 NCAA Tournament. Here’s what to know about the first-round game in South Bend.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - The Notre Dame women’s basketball team stumbled down the stretch of the regular season and they paid the price for it with their seeding in the NCAA Tournament. The Fighting Irish dropped to a 3 seed in the tournament, but will still get to host their first two games. It gets more difficult after those games though.

The field of 68 that will compete in the 2025 Women's NCAA Tournament was officially announced on Selection Sunday, and we got a mixture of expected and unexpected results with the bracket reveal. UCLA edged South Carolina for the No.