Women's Basketball | 2/18/2018 12:43:00 PM

NEW ALBANY, Indiana -- The 2017-18 River States Conference Women's Basketball Tournament bracket and qualifiers have been set, and they were unveiled for at RiverStatesConference.com. No. 3 East WVU Tech will travel to No. 2 West Indiana University Southeast.

The eight-team tournament will be held Feb. 21-27 at campus sites around the RSC. The top four teams from the RSC East and West divisions made the playoffs with the first- and second-place teams hosting quarterfinal games Feb. 21. The semifinals are Feb. 24 with the championship final Feb. 27. The higher seed hosts each game throughout the tournament.

No. 1 overall seed University of Rio Grande (27-3, 15-2 RSC) has earned home-court advantage throughout the tournament and is already guaranteed a spot in the NAIA Division II National Championship as the RSC regular-season champion. The RedStorm is the champion of the RSC East Division and begins the tournament Feb. 21 versus No. 4 seed Brescia (Ky.) University (12-18, 8-10 RSC) from the RSC West. 

The other No. 1 seed is Alice Lloyd (Ky.) College (22-4, 15-3 RSC), the RSC West Division champion. The Eagles won their division by 5.0 games and open the tournament Feb. 21 at home versus No. 4 seed Point Park (Pa.) University (17-10, 12-5 RSC) of the RSC East. 

On Rio Grande's side of the bracket, the other quarterfinal matchup is No. 2 seed IU Southeast (18-11, 10-8 RSC) from the RSC West hosting No. 3 seed WVU Tech (18-12, 12-5 RSC) from the RSC East. 

On Alice Lloyd's half of the draw, No. 2 seed IU East (21-9, 13-4 RSC) from the RSC East hosts No. 3 seed Midway (Ky.) University (17-13, 9-9 RSC) from the RSC West. 

The RSC Tournament champion will receive an automatic bid to the NAIA Division II national tournament. If Rio Grande wins the tournament, then RSC West Division champion Alice Lloyd (Ky.) College will receive the conference's other bid to nationals. 

Watch Live the RSC Women's Basketball Tournament on Stretch Internet, the official video provider of the RSC and the NAIA. All seven games of the tournament will be streamed on the conference's RSC Game Central portal. Subscribe for $7.95 per game or $19.99 for the entire tournament. Subscribe at RiverStatesConference.com/Stretch.

Follow the tournament on Twitter @RiverStatesConf and @RSCScores with hashtags RSCWBB and RSCBASKETBALL. Follow on Facebook.com/RiverStatesConference and online at RiverStatesConference.com.
 

• The Golden Bears finished .500 (8-8) on the road during the regular season and have won nine of their last 11 contests.
• The Grenadiers hold a record of 10-4 on their home court including the 80-54 W versus the Gold and Blue.

• Junior Savannah Shamblin was WVU Tech's leading scorer in the loss versus IU Southeast with 14 points.
• The team averages 73.40 points per game compared to their opponents' 70.07.
• The Golden Bears have four top-20 rankings in the NAIA DII as of February 18:
  • No. 6 in total blocks, 138
  • No. 7 in offensive rebounds per game, 15.767
  • No. 8 in blocks per game, 4.600
  • No. 19 in total assists, 459

• The Grenadiers currently sit in second in the RSC West Division with a conference record of 10-8.
• The team averages 72.59 points per game while holding their opponent to 60.90 points per game
• IU Southeast is No. 8 in the NAIA DII with 127 total blocks.
• The Grenadiers leading scorer is Annie Thomas who averages 14.64 points per game.
• Thomas holds two top-ten rankings in the nation -- No. 7 in steals per game (3.321) and No. 7 in total steals (93).