The State Fair Roadrunners women’s basketball team has earned one of the eight at-large bids for the NJCAA Division I women’s basketball tournament that begins next week in Lake Charles, La.

The Roadrunners will have the ninth seed and begin play the morning of Wednesday, Mar. 25 against Central Georgia Tech, with the winner facing eighth-seed Walters State of Tennessee. State Fair won the regular season title for Region 16, going 26-1 on the season with head coach Nicole Collier picking up Coach of the Year honors for the region and sophomore Ellie Buscher winning the region’s Player of the Year award. Buscher was among four Roadrunners who earned first-team recognition for the region, joined by Sophia Edwin, Zoe Newland, and Chloe Reed, while Maliyah White was named to the region’s second team.

The Roadrunners were left to learn their fate Monday, after they fell to Three Rivers 74-62 in the Central District championship game Saturday, Mar. 14. Three Rivers received the 12th overall seed and will also begin play Mar. 25 against Monroe of New York.

Also preparing for postseason play are the Missouri State Bears, whose women’s team won the Conference USA tournament in their first year in the league to earn their 18th appearance in the NCAA Division One women’s tournament. They’re one of the 16 seeds that will have to square off in the First Four, doing so against Stephen F Austin in Austin, Tex. on Wednesday night. The winner will face top-seed Texas, who defeated South Carolina to win the SEC Tournament earlier this month.