The Texas Longhorns now know that the road to Cleveland goes through Austin and Portland.

The NCAA revealed during its ESPN-televised selection show on Sunday night that the Texas women's basketball team has earned a No. 1 seed for its postseason tournament. Texas (30-4) will host Drexel (19-14) for a first-round game at 2 p.m. on Friday.

Texas was last a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament in 2004.

"I just think it's a tremendous accomplishment," Texas coach Vic Schaefer said. "This team is deserving. As I've said all along, there's only one other Power Five team in the country with 30 wins and that's South Carolina. I think we played the right schedule (in) non-conference. I think like they said on the broadcast tonight, we're hot, we've won 12 of our last 13.

"Again, I'm really proud of this team. They deserve it. To me, they've earned it. But now we got to go live it. That's the message that I'll have for them, is we've got to go live it. When you're the 1, everybody's a whole lot more interested and a lot more focused when they play you, but we have felt that all year long."

The winner of the Texas-Drexel game will advance to play either No. 8 Alabama (23-9) or No. 9 Florida State (23-10), who will also meet at Moody Center on the same day that UT plays. That second-round game will take place two days later.

The last team standing at Moody Center will move onto the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight rounds in Portland, Ore. The No. 2 seed in the Portland 4 region is Stanford.

The 2024 Final Four is scheduled to take place at Cleveland's Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse from April 5-7.

Texas (30-4) has been victorious in 12 of its last 13 games. The Longhorns are coming off a week in which they won the championship at the Big 12 Tournament in Kansas City, Mo.

This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Texas Longhorns vs. Drexel in March Madness, Women's NCAA Tournament