South Dakota’s women’s basketball team earned a No. 8 seed and will play Clemson Friday at 6 p.m. in Starkville, Miss., in the first round of the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament.

The game will be televised live on ESPN2.

The Coyotes, 28-5 overall, are the first Summit League program to receive an at large bid to the NCAA Tournament as the league is now known. Northern Illinois made the field as an at large team in 1994 when the league was known as the Mid-Continent Conference.

It is the second NCAA Division I tournament appearance for South Dakota, which first appeared as a No. 15 seed back in 2014.

Friday’s matchup will be the first between South Dakota and Clemson. The ninth-seeded Tigers finished the regular season 19-12 overall and 9-7 in the ACC. Clemson is making its 16th NCAA tournament appearance and first since 2002.

The winner of Friday’s matchup will take on the winner of top-seeded Mississippi State (30-2, 15-1 SEC) and SWAC champion Southern (21-11, 14-4), a No. 16 seed.