LOS ANGELES — The UCLA women’s basketball  team was awarded a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Division I tournament on Sunday, the highest seed in program history.

The Bruins will host No. 15 seed Cal Baptist in the first round of the Regional 2. The Lancers are making their first NCAA tournament appearance in program history.

The game will be held on either March 22 or 23.

UCLA (25-6) learned its tournament fate on Sunday afternoon at a ticketed event at Mo Ostin Center hosted in conjunction with the Men of Westwood NIL collective.

The Bruins ended the regular season on a five-game winning streak and were the No. 6 team nationally in the AP Top 25 rankings before heading to the Pac-12 tournament, where they beat Utah before falling to eventual tournament champion USC.

It was a tumultuous season at times, with 6-foot-7 center Lauren Betts missing multiple games due to an undisclosed medical reason and other players missing games due to Olympic qualification obligations.

UCLA is led in scoring by Betts, a sophomore who averages 14.7 points per game in addition to a team-high nine rebounds per game. Graduate student and guard Charisma Osborne averages 14.4 points per game after deciding to return to UCLA for another season instead of beginning her professional career.

CBU qualified by winning the WAC tournament, topping Stephen F. Austin 75-74 in the championship game Saturday morning.

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