The USC women’s basketball team will hold a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament, the program’s highest seed since 1986.

Led by superstar freshman, JuJu Watkins, the Trojans finished the season 26-5, and won the Pac-12 championship for the first time since 2014 when they beat the conference’s top seed, Stanford.

As the top seed in the Portland Regional 3 bracket, USC will play No. 16-seeded Texas A&M Corpus Christi on March 20, or 21. The winner of that matchup will take on the victor of the No. 8 Kansas or No. 9 Michigan matchup. Both games will be played at the Galen Center.

It was a historic season for the Trojans. Head coach Lindsay Gottlieb lead the program to back-to-back tournament appearances for the first time in 18 years.

Watkins was sensational for USC. The Sierra Canyon grad led the Pac-12 and finished second in the nation in scoring, averaging 27 points per game.

She was also named the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year.

The 6’2″ guard is already in elite company. Watkins is just the fourth player in NCAA Div. 1 history to score more than 800 points in her freshman season, passing all-time NCAA women’s scoring-leader, Caitlin Clark of Iowa State, and Courtney Paris.

Expectations are high this year, despite the fact that USC hasn’t advanced past the first round of the NCAA Tournament since 1994.

The UCLA Bruins are considered favorites as well. The Bruins are the No. 2 seed in the Albany Regional 2 and face the No. 15 seed, Cal-Baptist at Pauley Pavillion.

Three other teams will be seeded No. 1 in their regions, including undefeated South Carolina, which finished the season 32-0. Superstar Caitlin Clark’s Iowa and the University of Texas will join the Trojans to round out the top seeds.