INDIANAPOLIS (Mar. 8) – The Alaska Anchorage men's basketball team is bound for March Madness for the second time in three seasons, earning the No. 4 seed for next week's NCAA Division II West Regional Championships in Hayward, Calif.

The Great Northwest Athletic Conference regular-season and tournament runners-up, the Seawolves (21-10) will play No. 5 seed Cal State Dominguez Hills (22-8) in the first round Friday at 6:30 pm
ADT. The winner of the CSUDH/UAA game faces the winner between No. 8 Cal Poly Humboldt (17-14) and top-seeded host Cal State East Bay (30-0) in Saturday's regional semifinals.

The other side of the West Regional bracket features No. 2 seed Saint Martin's (25-5) against No. 7 seed Hawaii Pacific (18-11) and No. 3 seed Point Loma (25-5) against Northwest Nazarene (18-10).

This marks the 18th NCAA Tournament berth in program history since UAA became a Div. II member in 1977-78. It is the seventh qualification under head coach Rusty Osborne, who recently announced his retirement at season's end. UAA's furthest advancements came in 1988 when it finished runner-up to UMass-Lowell in the title game, and 2008 when it reached the national semifinals under Osborne.

Find live links to the entire West Regional Championships on the UAA men's basketball schedule page at GoSeawolves.com.