Tara VanDerveer has every reason to be happy with her Stanford team. It has won nine games in a row, including the Pac-12 tournament title game.

Additionally, her rotation goes 10 players deep. Playing in its 32nd straight NCAA Tournament, Stanford will host its first tournament game against 15-seed UC Davis (25-6) on Saturday and, presumably, a second-round game Monday. The Cardinal (28-4) earned a No. 2 seed.

On the other hand, she didn’t care for the fact the seeds and brackets were mistakenly posted on ESPNU hours before the scheduled selection show on ESPN. The network apologized to the NCAA and women’s basketball community.

As a result, the selection show was moved two hours earlier — in the middle of a Stanford practice. That scotched the team’s celebration when its name was called.

“Obviously, it is disappointing,” senior forward Alanna Smith said. “It’s a fun experience to have. I’m sorry the freshmen missed out on it. Hopefully, they’ll have more opportunities to do that in the future.”

VanDerveer said, “You just have to make the best of it.”

Saturday’s game Who: No. 15-seed UC Davis (25-6) at No. 2 Stanford (28-4) Where: Maples Pavilion When: 3 p.m.TV: ESPN2

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She admitted she was a little disappointed that neither her team nor regular-season champion Oregon received a No. 1 seed even though “we have the most competitive conference.” The Ducks also are a 2-seed.

She also said she was “not excited” about playing the Aggies because their head coach, Jennifer Gross, and her staff were a huge help to the Stanford coaches several years ago when they were learning the Princeton offense, which UCD has used for many years. VanDerveer wanted to open up the offense after All-American Chiney Ogwumike left in 2014.

“I’ve been rooting for them all year,” VanDerveer said. “It’s hard to play someone you’re close to and want to win, too.” But she added, “It’s every woman for themselves.”

As one of the nation’s top 16 overall seeds, Stanford will host first- and second-round games at Maples Pavilion, where the Cardinal have won 16 straight in the Big Dance and are 36-4 all-time in tournament play.

The UCD-Stanford game will be at 3 p.m. Saturday. No. 10 Auburn (22-9) and No. 7 BYU (25-6) will play at 12:30 p.m. The subregional winners will meet Monday at a time to be determined.

The matchups are part of the Chicago Region, which includes defending NCAA champion Notre Dame.

UCD is making just its second appearance in the tournament as a Division I program — its first in eight years. The Big West Conference regular-season and tournament champions have won 16 games in a row. They rallied from 17 points down in the third quarter to beat Hawaii 58-50 in the title game.

The Aggies’ top player is 6-foot-4 redshirt senior Morgan Bertsch, whose 23.5-point average is fourth best in the country. She was held to 16 points, her third-lowest total of the year, when the Cardinal opened the season with a 71-43 win over the Aggies.

“They’re very sound offensively,” Smith said. In the opener, “they ran the (Princeton) offense better than we did. We would watch film on them to see what we needed to do.”

Tom FitzGerald is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: tfitzgerald@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @tomgfitzgerald