Cal State Monterey Bay’s women’s basketball team grabbed the No. 3 seed in the NCAA West Regional tournament starting Friday in Pomona.

Three of the eight teams in the region come from the California Collegiate Athletic Association.

The Otters (26-3) will face the No. 6 seed Dixie State College of St. George, Utah, at 12:30 p.m. The Red Storm compiled a 24-3 record and ended the season with a 21-game home winning streak.

To watch the game, click here. The game will be played at Cal Poly Pomona, home of the region’s No. 1 seed. Cal Poly will face the No. 8 seed Cal State San Bernardino.

On Saturday, the winner of the CSUMB-Dixie State game will face the winner of the contest between No. 2 seed Grand Canyon and No. 7 Seattle Pacific. The semifinals will be held on Monday, March 14. The final will be held the next night.

The Otters lost a chance to be seeded No. 1 when they dropped the CCAA championship game 59-53 to Cal Poly Pomona on Saturday. It was the third time the teams had met this season. The Broncos won two of those matchups, at the Kelp Bed and the championship game at CSU East Bay. The West Region bracket (at Cal Poly Pomona) Friday’s games No. 1 Cal Poly Pomona (25-4) vs. No. 8 San Bernardino (21-7) No. 4 Western Washington (26-3) vs. No. 5 Alaska Anchorage (25-6) No. 3 CSUMB (26-3) vs. No. 6 Dixie State (24-3) No. 2 Grand Canyon (27-2) vs. Seattle Pacific (20-8)

The entire bracket can be found here.

The Otters finished conference play with a 20-2 record and a one-game margin over Cal Poly Pomona in the 12-team conference.

“These kids said yes to a coach who had never been a head coach,” Renee Jimenez said. Jimenez took over the program in 2009. “All these girls took a chance on us and bought into what we were doing.”

It’s been a banner year for the Otters: a school-record 26 wins – including a 16-0 run to start the season – and a No. 19 NCAA national ranking in Division II.