South Carolina women's basketball is the No. 1 overall seed in the first NCAA women's basketball top 16 reveal of the season on Thursday and are projected as part of the Albany Regional.

No. 2-seed UCLA, No. 3-seed UConn and No. 4-seed Louisville round out the top seeds in the regional.

The top 16 seeds in the women's bracket host the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament. The Gamecocks are 23-0 and have been ranked No. 1 in the polls since the second week of the season.

This would be the Gamecocks' third-consecutive selection as the No. 1 overall seed. South Carolina earned the top seed in 2022 on the way to the program's second national championship, winning the title against UConn, 64-49.

South Carolina was the No. 1 overall seed last season, entering the tournament with an unblemished 32-0 record. The Gamecocks advanced to the Final Four before falling to Iowa, 77-73, and ending their shot at a repeat title.

The Gamecocks were projected as the No. 1 overall season in 2020, when the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee revealed the top-16 teams on March 2, two weeks before Selection Sunday, but the tournament was cancelled amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The full 68-team bracket will be revealed at 8 p.m. ET on March 17 on ESPN.

This article originally appeared on Asheville Citizen Times: South Carolina women's basketball No. 1 overall seed in top-16 reveal