The UNCW Seahawks basketball team earned a No. 14 seed in the 2025 Men’s NCAA Tournament and will face No. 3 Texas Tech on Thursday in Wichita as part of the West Region.

The game is scheduled for approximately 10:10 p.m. and will be televised on TruTV.

The Seahawks (27-7) enter the NCAA Tournament for the first time in eight years after winning the Coastal Athletic Association tournament on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. The team has just one March Madness victory all time, stunning Southern California in 2002.

UNCW fans gathered at Trask Coliseum on Sunday to cheer on the team during the NCAA Tournament selection show.

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UNCW leading scorer Donovan Newby poured in 41 points in the Seahawks’ final two games of the CAA Tournament and says participating in March Madness is something he’s visualized his whole life.

“I’m still dreaming,” Newby said. “This is something I vividly remember dreaming about when I was 5 years old, just watching college basketball and just one day wanting to go to the dance, and it really happened.”

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UNCW enters March Madness having won 15 of its last 17 games, a mark that included a nine-game winning streak.