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The Wolf Pack basketball team is dancing again.

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For just the third time in school history, Nevada was selected as an at-large team in the NCAA Tournament. The Wolf Pack will play Texas on Friday at 1:30 p.m. in Nashville. Nevada was picked as a seventh seed, which is tied for the second-best seed the program has drawn in the tournament. Texas is a 10th seed. The game will air on TBS.

Nevada (27-7) won the Mountain West regular season but fell to San Diego State, 90-73, in the MW Tournament semifinal. The Aztecs went on to beat New Mexico in the MW championship game to secure the conference’s automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament. Nevada also made the field, giving the MW two teams in the Big Dance for the first time since 2015.

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Texas went 19-14 overall and 8-10 in the Big 12. The winner of the Nevada-Texas game advances to play the Cincinnati-Georgia State winner on Sunday.

This is the Wolf Pack’s eighth NCAA Tournament appearance and second in as many years. Only twice before had Nevada reached the tournament via an at-large selection, doing so in 2005 and 2007.

The Wolf Pack is 4-7 all-time in the NCAA Tournament, last winning a game in the event in 2007 when Nevada knocked off Creighton in the overtime in the first round. One of the Wolf Pack's tournament wins came over Texas, in 2005 in the first round.

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Photos: Nevada loses to SDSU in their MW semi-final game

Last season, the Wolf Pack, a 12th seed, lost to Iowa State, 84-73, in the first round in Milwaukee. Only two players who appeared in the game returned this season – Jordan Caroline and Josh Hall. But, Nevada’s roster is loaded with players with tournament experience as transfers Caleb and Cody Martin (North Carolina State), Hallice Cooke (Iowa State) and Kendall Stephens (Purdue) each played for NCAA Tournament teams at their previous schools.

Six teams Nevada played this season made the NCAA Tournament, including Texas Tech, TCU, SDSU, Rhode Island, Davidson and Radford. The Wolf Pack went 4-4 against those squads.