March 10, 2002

2002 NCAA Women's Tournament Bracket
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LAS VEGAS - They're dancing. Period.

The UNLV women's basketball team will make its eighth appearance in the NCAA Tournament after being selected as one of 64 teams to play in the 2002 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship on Sunday.

The 12th-seeded Lady Rebels (23-7) will face fifth-seeded Minnesota (21-7) on Saturday, March 16 at a time to be determined in Chapel Hill, N.C. Fourth-seeded North Carolina (24-8), the campus host, will meet 13th-seeded Harvard (22-5) to round out the four-team bracket at the first and second round site.

This is the program's first tournament berth since the 1994 season when the Lady Rebels finished the year at 23-7 under former head coach Jim Bolla. Fourth year UNLV coach Regina Miller has now taken two teams to the Big Dance - Western Illinois in 1995 and UNLV in 2002.

In 1998, both UNLV and Minnesota last met in their first ever meeting during the finals of the Golden Gopher Classic in Minneapolis. The Lady Rebels defeated the Golden Gophers, 75-61, to win the tournament title. Four current Lady Rebels, seniors Kinesha Davis, Linda Fr?hlich, Erin Johansson and Courtney Swanson, were freshman on that particular team in Miller's first season at UNLV.

Four Mountain West Conference teams were selected into the tournament (Colorado State, BYU and New Mexico) and UNLV was one of 33 teams to receive an at-large bid.

UNLV is part of a 16-team bracket in the Midwest Region, which includes top-seeded Vanderbilt and second-seeded Tennessee. The Lady Rebels are 3-7 all-time in NCAA tournament play.

Times and ticket information for the NCAA First Round game will be announced later this week.

UNLV Lady Rebels celebrate the selection.