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Selection Sunday has come and gone, which means we have a bracket to digest before games begin later this week.

The committee crowned undefeated UConn as the NCAA tournament’s top overall seed. That normally wouldn’t be a surprise as the lone remaining unbeaten, but the other team with a case was UCLA, which had the much tougher schedule and hasn’t lost since November, a defeat that came against another one-seed in Texas. We’ll have to wait until the end of the tournament to see whether we get a Final Four rematch from last year between the two powerhouses.

South Carolina rounded out the top seeds with a bit of a tough draw ahead for the Gamecocks. Dawn Staley’s group has either USC or Clemson in round two, then likely West Virginia or Kentucky in the Sweet 16 and Michigan or Louisville in the Elite Eight. No path to the Final Four is easy, but the selection committee provided us with some intriguing matchups before any nets can get cut and plane tickets to Phoenix can be booked.

Now that we have a bracket, here’s a breakdown of each region in the women’s NCAA tournament:

Regional 1 - Fort Worth

Undefeated UConn is the tournament’s top seed. Sarah Strong, Azzi Fudd and the Huskies could see Audi Crooks, the second-highest scorer in the nation, in the second round. In case you thought it would get easier for Geno Auriemma’s squad from there, think again. If the region goes chalk, UConn would see Vanderbilt and the country’s top scorer in Mikayla Blakes for a trip to the Final Four in Phoenix.

The first region is made up of some of the best players in the country with Hannah Hidalgo leading six-seed Notre Dame in addition to Strong, Fudd, Crooks and Blakes.

Regional 2 - Sacramento

UCLA was the team with the best case for the tournament’s top seed besides UConn. The Bruins have had the toughest schedule in the nation and went 31–1 with their only loss at the hands of Texas, another No. 1 seed. The No. 2 seed in UCLA’s region is LSU, who went 27–5 on the year. Kim Mulkey could face her former program should the Tigers advance to the Sweet 16 and meet Baylor, which would need to upset third-seeded Duke along the way.

Minnesota gets to host first- and second-round games as the Golden Gophers were teetering around the four-line heading into Selection Sunday. Home court will certainly help should the Gophers meet Cotie McMahon and Ole Miss in the round of 32.

Regional 3 - Fort Worth

Vic Schaefer has the Longhorns back as a No. 1 seed, now for the third year in a row. Texas’s only three losses this season were to conference powers South Carolina, LSU and Vanderbilt. The Longhorns defeated LSU in the second meeting between the schools and Texas got the best of the Gamecocks earlier in the season and then again in the SEC tournament final. The school’s best win came in November against another top seed, though, in UCLA.

West Virginia has hit a stride at the right time, winning the Big 12 tournament and getting to play host to start the NCAA tournament. The Mountaineers would bring a fun matchup for Texas should they be able to get past Kentucky and advance to the Sweet 16. If the region goes chalk, we’ll see if Michigan’s sophomore pair of Olivia Olson and Syla Swords are enough to topple the giants in Texas.

Regional 4 - Sacramento

The last region has a fun potential second-round matchup between where USC star freshman Jazzy Davidson could take on Dawn Staley’s Gamecocks. Getting through Clemson first is no easy feat for the Trojans, however. Elsewhere, the final region is swimming with stars like TCU’s Olivia Miles and Marta Suárez, plus another standout freshman in Oklahoma’s Aaliyah Chavez.

South Carolina is the team to beat, but the Gamecocks will have some intriguing matchups along their potential path to the Final Four.

Fort Worth, Texas — Strong winds and very dry air across North and Central Texas are increasing wildfire risk Sunday.

According to the National Weather Service in Fort Worth, a Red Flag Warning remains in effect until 9 p.m. CDT Sunday for large portions of the region, particularly areas near and west of Interstate 35.

Forecasters say north winds between 25 and 35 mph with gusts up to 50 mph combined with relative humidity dropping as low as 19 percent are creating conditions where fires can start easily and spread rapidly. Afternoon temperatures are expected to reach around 90 degrees, further drying vegetation.

The warning covers a wide area including Dallas, Tarrant, Denton, Parker, Wise, Johnson, Ellis, McLennan, Bell, Coryell, and Lampasas counties, along with many surrounding counties across western North and Central Texas.

Meteorologists said the highest fire threat is near and west of U.S. Highway 281, where dry fuels and stronger winds are most likely to align.

Under Red Flag conditions, even small sparks can quickly grow into fast-moving fires. Officials advise residents to avoid outdoor burning, welding, or any activity that could produce sparks during the warning period.

The National Weather Service also urges people not to discard lit cigarette butts outdoors and to report any wildfire immediately to local fire departments or law enforcement.

The agency noted the current fire environment rating is 5 out of 10, indicating elevated fire behavior potential when combined with the expected wind and humidity levels.

The conditions may also be relevant for students, commuters, and outdoor workers, as strong winds could affect travel and outdoor activities through the evening hours.

Residents are encouraged to stay alert for local fire updates as conditions remain dangerous until winds ease later tonight.

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Students will soon be able to study at Texas A&M University’s new Fort Worth campus.

The downtown campus, which broke ground in 2023, is opening its first building and starting classes this fall.

The campus will house degree-granting programs from Texas A&M University and Tarleton State University, which is part of the A&M System. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi’s Center for Advanced Aviation Technologies will have a research presence, and six state agencies will be on campus as well.

Officials say the campus will help fill the region’s growing talent and research needs by collaborating in key area industries including health care, aerospace, and media and entertainment. Fort Worth, Tarrant County and Texas A&M leaders are also working to build a mixed-use innovation district around the campus that will connect companies with the university, startups and other businesses to foster economic development.

“A&M has been investing in this area,” said Kim McCuistion, director of Texas A&M Fort Worth, pointing to the city’s demand for highly educated talent, its diverse industrial base and city leadership’s commitment to education.

Here’s what to know about Texas A&M’s Fort Worth campus.

After the pandemic, city and business leaders looked for ways to ensure economic growth in Fort Worth. They proposed bringing an industry-driven campus to downtown to promote job growth, corporate development and research innovation, leading them to approach the Texas A&M System.

The university system already owned four blocks downtown, including its law school location, which it acquired from Texas Wesleyan University in 2013.

“A&M decided to plant the flag. They said, ‘What we want to do is make sure that it’s not just an academic campus but that it really does engage the city,’” said Darryl Heath, executive director of the Fort Worth-Tarrant County Innovation Partnership, a nonprofit organization formed by the city and county that aims to develop relationships between corporations and Texas A&M.

City and county officials played a large role in establishing the campus, given its potential to help the city meet the needs of its growing economy.

Texas A&M system leaders and city officials have hailed the campus as a chance to bring a top research university to Fort Worth, which is among the few large cities in Texas without a Tier 1-designated institution. The status is a key driver in attracting top faculty, students and even industries to areas.

Texas A&M-Fort Worth is the first urban campus for the Texas A&M System.

“The long-term vision is a compact, walkable campus that integrates academic, research and community-facing space in the heart of the city,” McCuistion said.

The Texas A&M Fort Worth campus will not offer its own degrees. Instead, students will take classes offered by Texas A&M University and Tarleton State University.

Texas A&M University will offer an undergraduate degree in engineering at the Fort Worth campus this fall. Students in the College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts can complete a bachelor’s in visualization, which prepares students for careers in visual media, such as marketing and animation. The College of Pharmacy is working to offer a master’s in pharmaceutical sciences, and third-year and fourth-year doctor of pharmacy students will complete their rotations in Fort Worth this year.

Texas A&M’s law school, which will move into the new building this fall, will continue to offer classes.

“Consistent with the overall model, we’ve identified broadly what degrees are going to be in demand among the community here and to the industry,” said Bobby Ahdieh, chief operating officer of Texas A&M-Fort Worth and dean of the Texas A&M University School of Law.

Potential offerings include additional degree programs from the College of Enginering, MBA programs at the business school, and more undergraduate and graduate degrees for the College of Pharmacy and School of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts. Ahdieh also said officials are discussing further investments in health care fields.

“From the conversations we’re having with individual hospitals in the D-FW metroplex, the demand and the need there is through the roof,” Ahdieh said. “Figuring out how we do that effectively will be an important project over the coming months and year or two.”

Meanwhile, Tarleton State will offer courses focused on health sciences, said Rachael Capua, vice president for external operations and dean of Tarleton State Fort Worth.

This fall, the campus will offer an associate’s degree in histotechnology, bachelor’s degrees in biomedical sciences, biotechnology and medical laboratory science, and a master’s in diagnostic molecular science.

The school is planning to launch another bachelor’s degree and two doctorate programs in the future.

The goal is to align industry partners’ needs with the “supply of research and talent that we have” within the Texas A&M System, McCuistion said.

Texas A&M officials said they are first focusing on industry partnerships in four key areas: health care, media and entertainment, agriculture and food, and aerospace and aviation.

Industry partners’ needs will drive research and program offerings at Texas A&M-Fort Worth.

The Fort Worth-Tarrant County Innovation Partnership has met with about 100 companies to identify which areas the campus should focus on, asking them, “What if you had a large-scale, Tier 1 research university coming to town? How could they help you? How could they add value to your bottom line?” Heath said.

In 2023, Lockheed Martin, an aerospace, arms, defense and information security company with a large presence in Fort Worth, was the first company to announce it would collaborate with the campus to establish a pipeline of engineers in the region. The company is discussing research opportunities, space and equipment needs, and funding strategies with Texas A&M-Fort Worth, Heath said.

Discussions with other companies, including Raytheon, Bell Flight, Cook Children’s Medical Center, Texas Health Resources and American Airlines, are continuing, according to Heath.

Heath said the partnerships between companies and the campus, plus the new facilities, will result in collaborative research, startup incubation, workforce development and education, and unique learning and engagement opportunities for students.

The campus will also serve as an anchor for a new mixed-use innovation district in downtown Fort Worth. Elements of the district will be modeled after the relationship between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kendall Square, an internationally recognized innovation hub known for its high concentration of biotechnology and life sciences startups, in Cambridge, Mass.

The hope is that an innovation district will attract researchers and companies to the region and spark business opportunities.

“If we can create even some portion of that through these four industry programs in Fort Worth over the next 20 years, I’ll be thrilled,” Heath said. “That’s our goal — we create an engine in each of these industry areas that pulls companies, both startups and medium-sized and larger companies, towards the campus through these hub concepts.”

The eight-story Law and Education building will be the first to open this fall and offer classes.

The campus is anticipated to grow to five buildings in total, including two research and innovation buildings and a performance, visualization and fine arts building. The next building to break ground will be Research and Innovation Building-A, which is in the pre-construction phase and will primarily house the state agencies.

Program offerings will expand as the campus grows and industry demands in the region change, Ahdieh said.

Ahdieh envisions the Fort Worth campus serving as a “study abroad” location for Texas A&M System students who want to gain experiential learning opportunities in a major metropolitan area.

“Imagine two or three days a week, you are off and you are working at some other venue, an externship or a co-op,” he said. “My guess is that’s a better education and students come out better prepared.”

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Coming off its first SEC Tournament championship in history, the Texas women’s basketball team earned its third consecutive top seed with its third consecutive 30-win season.

The Longhorns are No. 1 in the Fort Worth Region 3 of the 2026 NCAA Women’s Basketball tournament. It’s the second time Texas has secured three consecutive No. 1 seeds in March Madness.

Either Missouri State or Stephen F. Austin will face Texas in the first round at the Moody Center, where the Longhorns are 18-0 this season and have 42 consecutive victories.

The other teams playing host to first- and second-round games in Region 3: No. 2 Michigan, No. 3 Louisville, No. 4 West Virginia.

Breaking down Region 3:

No. 1 seed: Texas

The Longhorns rely primarily on defense, holding opponents to under 60 points per game on average. Meanwhile, they average 85 points per game with star forward Madison Booker, and veteran point guard Rori Harmon.

Trysta’s Takes

(Editor’s note — NBA and WNBA analyst Trysta Krick offers her take on the region below. Follow Trysta on social media: @Trysta_Krick)

“Texas will have to face a tough test along the way. Kentucky is a team nobody wants to see in the tournament, and the reason is a 6-foot-5 junior center named Clara Strack. She’s averaging 17.1 points and 10.0 rebounds per game this season, and she’s been on an absolute tear lately. She has put up 30-plus points in her last three games, including a historic performance against Georgia in the SEC Tournament where she became the first player this century with 30 points, five 3-pointers and three blocks in a regulation conference tournament game. She is the heartbeat of that Kentucky team and will be a nightmare matchup.”

Region 3, Fort Worth first-round matchups

At Austin, Texas

1. Texas (31-3) 16. Missouri State/SF Austin

8. Oregon (22-12) 9. Virginia Tech (23-9)

At Morgantown, West Virginia

4. West Virginia (27-6) 13. Miami of Ohio (28-6)

5. Kentucky (23-10) 12, James Madison (26-8)

At Louisville, Kentucky

3. Louisville (27-7) 14. Vermont (27-7)

6. Alabama (23-10) 11. Rhode Island (28-4)

At Ann Arbor, Michigan

7. North Carolina State (20-10) 10. Tennessee (16-13)

2. Michigan (25-6) 15. Holy Cross (23-9)

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A freeze warning was released by the NWS Fort Worth TX on Sunday at 4:06 p.m. valid for Monday between 4 a.m. and 9 a.m. The warning is for Tarrant, Dallas, Hood, Johnson, Rockwall, Kaufman, Van Zandt, Somervell, Ellis, Mills, Hamilton, Bosque and Hill counties.

The NWS says, "Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 25 degrees expected."

"Unsecured outdoor items may be blown around in the wind. Driving on area roadways may become difficult, especially for high-profile vehicles. Small tree limbs could break and cause damage. Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing," describes the NWS.

This warning is in effect until Monday at 9 a.m.

Live, real-time data from the National Weather Service showing official weather watches, warnings, and advisories. Tap or click a highlighted area for details. Sources: NOAA, National Weather Service, NOAA GeoPlatform, and Esri.

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Freeze warnings are issued from May to October (but can be extended if necessary), when low temperatures are expected to be 29-32 degrees. If there is a potential for temperatures to fall into these thresholds, a freeze watch may be issued a few days ahead of time.

According to the NWS, if a freeze warning or watch is issued for your area, there is little you can do to protect plants. If you can move your sensitive plants inside, do so because the freeze will likely kill them, depending on the severity of conditions.

Source: The National Weather Service

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