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Drake March Madness: What to know about Colorado women's basketball, Drake's NCAA Tournament opponent
By Aaron Marner
Drake March Madness: What to know about Colorado women's basketball, Drake's NCAA Tournament opponent
ROUND THIS THURSDAY IN OMAHA, AND THE DRAKE WOMEN HAVE PUNCHED THEIR TICKET TO THE TOURNAMENT, AND IT ALL CAME DOWN TO AN INCREDIBLE BUZZER BEATER. WATCH THIS. LOOK AT THAT CELEBRATION. THAT WAS ANNA BO MAKING THE GAME WINNING SHOT YESTERDAY IN MOLINE. THIS IS THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW THE DRAKE WOMEN ARE MISSOURI VALLEY CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS. BO LOOKS STUNNED IN THAT VIDEO. AND 24 HOURS LATER, SHE SAYS SHE IS STILL DIGESTING IT. I THINK STILL, I’M A LITTLE STUNNED. I MEAN, THAT WAS LIKE A REALLY COOL MOMENT AND I’M VERY, VERY GRATEFUL THAT THE SHOT WENT IN. UM, BUT YEAH, OVERALL, I MEAN, JUST WE PUT OURSELVES IN A POSITION WHERE WE COULD WIN. AND I THINK THAT WAS JUST AMAZING. SURE WAS. THE 12TH SEEDED BULLDOGS WILL PLAY THE FIFTH SEEDED COLORADO BUFFALOES IN A FIRST ROUND OF THE TOURNAMENT IN MANHATTAN, KANSAS. AS JEFF SAID, THIS IS GOING TO BE A TOUGH GAME. BUT HEAD COACH ALISON PULLMAN SAYS THEY ARE READY. SHE SAYS THEY ARE COMING OFF SUNDAY’S HIGH AND GETTING HYPER FOCUSED FOR FRIDAY. SHE HAS THIS MESSAGE FOR ALL DRAKE BULLDOG FANS. GO AHEAD AND CHEER ON OUR MEN. ON THURSDAY TO A VICTORY IN OMAHA. AND THEN YOU GO AHEAD AND TAKE A SWEET LITTLE TRIP RIGHT ON OVER TO MANHATTAN AND CHEER ON THE WOMEN AT 6 P.M. ON FRIDAY. SO I THINK IT’S IT’S A GREAT TIME TO BE A DRA
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Drake March Madness: What to know about Colorado women's basketball, Drake's NCAA Tournament opponent
By Aaron Marner
The Drake women's basketball team found out its NCAA Tournament destination Sunday, and the Bulldogs are headed to a familiar March Madness location.Drake, which punched its ticket to the Big Dance thanks to Anna Miller's buzzer-beater to win the Missouri Valley Tournament title, will begin its 2024 NCAA Tournament run in Manhattan, Kansas, vs. No. 5 seed Colorado.Video above: Drake's Anna Miller reflects on game-winning buzzer-beaterThe Bulldogs also played in Manhattan in the 2017 NCAA Tournament when they lost to No. 7 seed Kansas State, 67-54, in the first round.This time, the first round will be a true neutral site game.Here's what to know about Colorado. Colorado women's basketball: Record, stats and moreLocation: Boulder, ColoradoRecord: 22-9Conference: Pac-12 (11-7; tied for 5th place)Ranking: No. 18 in Monday's AP Top 25 pollNCAA Tournament history: The Buffaloes have made the NCAA Tournament 16 times (including 2024) since 1988. They made a Sweet 16 run last year, which ended when they ran into Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes.Drake vs. Colorado women's basketball series history These two programs have only met once before.Drake won 82-66 on March 14, 1999, in the second round of the WNIT. Lisa Bluder was in her ninth season coaching the Bulldogs at the time. Colorado players to watch: Aaronette Vonleh, Jaylyn Sherrod, Frida FormannColorado has three players who average double-digit points.Junior center Aaronette Vonleh leads the team at 14.1 points per game. She's the younger sister of eight-year NBA veteran Noah Vonleh, who played college basketball at Indiana. Vonleh is listed at 6 feet, 3 inches tall and shoots 56% from the field.Senior guard Jaylyn Sherrod is second in scoring at 13 points per game and leads the team with 4.9 assists per game.And senior guard Frida Formann averages 12.9 points per game while sporting a 43% 3-point percentage and 92% free-throw percentage.All three have meaningful NCAA Tournament experience; Vonleh, Sherrod and Formann each scored double-figures in last year's Sweet 16 loss to Iowa before all three fouled out.
DES MOINES, Iowa —

The Drake women's basketball team found out its NCAA Tournament destination Sunday, and the Bulldogs are headed to a familiar March Madness location.

Drake, which punched its ticket to the Big Dance thanks to Anna Miller's buzzer-beater to win the Missouri Valley Tournament title, will begin its 2024 NCAA Tournament run in Manhattan, Kansas, vs. No. 5 seed Colorado.

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Video above: Drake's Anna Miller reflects on game-winning buzzer-beater

The Bulldogs also played in Manhattan in the 2017 NCAA Tournament when they lost to No. 7 seed Kansas State, 67-54, in the first round.

This time, the first round will be a true neutral site game.

Here's what to know about Colorado.

Colorado women's basketball: Record, stats and more

Location: Boulder, Colorado

Record: 22-9

Conference: Pac-12 (11-7; tied for 5th place)

Ranking: No. 18 in Monday's AP Top 25 poll

NCAA Tournament history: The Buffaloes have made the NCAA Tournament 16 times (including 2024) since 1988. They made a Sweet 16 run last year, which ended when they ran into Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes.

Drake vs. Colorado women's basketball series history

These two programs have only met once before.

Drake won 82-66 on March 14, 1999, in the second round of the WNIT. Lisa Bluder was in her ninth season coaching the Bulldogs at the time.

Colorado players to watch: Aaronette Vonleh, Jaylyn Sherrod, Frida Formann

Colorado has three players who average double-digit points.

Junior center Aaronette Vonleh leads the team at 14.1 points per game. She's the younger sister of eight-year NBA veteran Noah Vonleh, who played college basketball at Indiana. Vonleh is listed at 6 feet, 3 inches tall and shoots 56% from the field.

Senior guard Jaylyn Sherrod is second in scoring at 13 points per game and leads the team with 4.9 assists per game.

And senior guard Frida Formann averages 12.9 points per game while sporting a 43% 3-point percentage and 92% free-throw percentage.

All three have meaningful NCAA Tournament experience; Vonleh, Sherrod and Formann each scored double-figures in last year's Sweet 16 loss to Iowa before all three fouled out.

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