Time to hoop it up March Madness is upon us. The NCAA basketball tournament begins next week and schools from all across the land will be in the big dance. That means cheerleading squads will be headed out to fire up the crowds as their teams look to advance in hopes of winning the national championship.

Fans navigating the dozens of schools in the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments might become as attached to the mascots as the athletes themselves.

The Lady Bulldogs will join their male counterparts in an 8 vs 9 matchup, this time as a 9-seed, and will face the California Golden Bears. If they were to win that matchup, they would most likely face the tournament's number 1 overall seed, the USC Trojans. The men's tournament starts Thursday, while the women's starts Friday.