The No. 3 seeded LSU women's basketball team will take on No. 14 seeded Rice in the first round of the NCAA March Madness tournament Friday at 3 p.m. in the Maravich Center and the game will be broadcast on ESPN.

Action will start earlier in the day when No. 6 Louisville and No. 11 Middle Tennessee at 12:30 p.m. and that game will be broadcast on ESPN2. 

LSU will face the winner of the Louisville and Middle Tennessee game on Sunday at a time to be deterimined.

LSU has won 10 out of their last 11 games. The Tigers lost to No. 1 seed South Carolina in the SEC Championship game.

During the conference tournament, LSU's Last-Tear Poa got a concussion, Angel Reese played through an ankle injury and Flau'jae Johnson was in the middle of a scuffle with South Carolina's Kamilla Cardoso — who will be missing the first game of the tournament due to an ejection in that game. 

LSU and South Carolina are on opposite sides of the bracket, so if another re-match happens it would be the National Championship game. 

In order to get to that National Championship game, LSU will likely have to take down No. 1 seeded Iowa — who LSU beat in the National Championship game in 2023. 

The Tigers have been a No. 3 seed headed into the past two tournaments.