2003 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament - First and Second Rounds

First and Second Rounds

Storrs Manhattan Norfolk Norman Knoxville Boulder University Park Athens Raleigh Albuquerque Lubbock Eugene Stanford Cincinnati Ruston 2003 NCAA NCAA first and second round venues

In 2003, the field remained at 64 teams. The teams were seeded, and assigned to four geographic regions, with seeds 1-16 in each region. In Round 1, seeds 1 and 16 faced each other, as well as seeds 2 and 15, seeds 3 and 14, seeds 4 and 13, seeds 5 and 12, seeds 6 and 11, seeds 7 and 10, and seeds 8 and 9. In 2003, a change was implemented in the way first and second round sites were determined. From 1982 (the year of the first NCAA women's basketball tournament) through 2002, the first rounds sites were offered to the top seeds. Starting in 2003, sixteen sites for the first two rounds were determined approximately a year before the team selections and seedings were completed.

The following table lists the region, host school, venue and the sixteen first and second round locations:

Region	Rnd	Host	Venue	City	State
East	1&2	Purdue University	Mackey Arena	West Lafayette	Indiana
East	1&2	University of Connecticut	Harry A. Gampel Pavilion	Storrs	Connecticut
East	1&2	Kansas State University	Bramlage Coliseum	Manhattan	Kansas
East	1&2	Old Dominion University	Ted Constant Convocation Center	Norfolk	Virginia
Mideast	1&2	University of Oklahoma	Lloyd Noble Center	Norman	Oklahoma
Mideast	1&2	University of Tennessee	Thompson-Boling Arena	Knoxville	Tennessee
Mideast	1&2	University of Colorado	CU Events Center (Coors Events Center)	Boulder	Colorado
Mideast	1&2	Pennsylvania State University	Bryce Jordan Center	University Park	Pennsylvania
Midwest	1&2	University of Georgia	Georgia Coliseum (Stegeman Coliseum)	Athens	Georgia
Midwest	1&2	North Carolina State University	Reynolds Coliseum	Raleigh	North Carolina
Midwest	1&2	University of New Mexico	The Pit (arena)	Albuquerque	New Mexico
Midwest	1&2	Texas Tech University	United Spirit Arena	Lubbock	Texas
West	1&2	University of Oregon	McArthur Court	Eugene	Oregon
West	1&2	Stanford University	Maples Pavilion	Stanford	California
West	1&2	University of Cincinnati	Shoemaker Center	Cincinnati	Ohio
West	1&2	Louisiana Tech University	Thomas Assembly Center	Ruston	Louisiana