The University of Miami Hurricanes women's basketball team learned their status for the 2012 Women's NCAA tournament when the bracket was released on Monday evening. Miami earned the No. 3 seed in the Kingston regional.

Miami will face No. 14 Idaho State in the opening round of play. That game is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on March 17. It will take place in Spokane, WA.

If the Hurricanes win, they will face the winner of the No. 6 Rutgers versus No. 11 Gonzaga game.

The rest of the bracket in Miami's regional looks like this:

No. 1 Connecticut vs. No. 16 Prairie View
No. 8 Kansas State vs. No. 9 Princeton
No. 5 LSU vs. No. 12 San Diego State
No. 4 Penn State vs. No. 13 UTEP
No. 6 Rutgers vs. No. 11 Gonzaga
No. 3 Miami vs. No. 14 Idaho State
No. 7 Wisconsin-Green Bay vs. No. 10 Iowa State
No. 2 Kentucky vs. No. 15 McNeese State

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