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Virginia women’s basketball is back in the NCAA tournament

Get your dancing shoes on, Charlottesville. For the first time since 2010, the Virginia women’s basketball team is going to the NCAA tournament.

UVA earned an at-large bid and will be a No. 10 seed in the Albany region. Their first game will be against seventh-seeded California on Friday at 5 p.m. in Columbia, S.C.

There’s a fascinating storyline in this matchup, as Virginia head coach Joanne Boyle coached at Cal for six years before heading east.

Elsewhere in the Cavaliers’ region, UConn is the No. 1 and top overall seed. If UVA were to beat the Golden Bears, they would likely play none other than Dawn Staley-led and No.