The William Woods University Lady Owls basketball team is going back to the NAIA Division I women's national tournament for the fifth straight year.
No. 22 William Woods learned Wednesday night it had received an at-large bid to the 33rd-annual national tournament despite losing at Columbia College 91-83 on Monday night in the championship of the American Midwest Conference postseason tournament.
The Lady Owls (25-6) - drawing the sixth seed in their quadrant of the bracket - will play No. 3 MidAmerica (Kan.) Nazarene (30-2) in the first round at 8:45 p.m. Wednesday, March 13. MidAmerica Nazarene is ranked No. 9 in the nation.
To help the tornado-stricken people of Dumas and surroundings, donations can be made to the Delta Area Disaster Relief Fund, care of the Delta Area Community Foundation, P.O. Box 894, Dumas, AR, 71639, or through the Arkansas Community Foundation, 700 S. Rock St., Little Rock, AR, 72202.