The 2012 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament begins on Saturday, and the defending national champions will be along the teams in action. Texas A&M, seeded third in the Raleigh Regional, will face No. 14 seed Albany at 5:30 in College Station. If the Aggies can see off the Great Danes, they will face the winner of the game between sixth-seeded Arkansas and eleventh-seeded Dayton. That game will begin at 3:05 p.m.

Also kicking off their tournament campaign on Saturday is the Fresno Region's No. 9 seed, Texas. The Lady Longhorns will play No. 8 seed West Virginia in Norfolk, Virginia in a game set to tip off at 10:10 a.m. If Texas wins, it will play the winner of the game between No. 1 Stanford and No. 16 Hampton.

The full schedule of Saturday's games is below.

10:05 AM (12) Eastern Michigan vs. (5) South Carolina --Fresno Region
10:10 AM (9) Texas vs. (8) West Virginia --Fresno Region
10:15 AM (15) Navy vs. (2) Maryland -- Raleigh Region
10:20 AM (9) Princeton vs. (8) Kansas State --Kingston Region
12:30 PM (16) Hampton vs. (1) Stanford--Fresno Region
12:30 PM (16) Prairie View A&M vs. (1) Connecticut--Kingston Region
12:30 PM (10) Michigan State vs. (7) Louisville -- Raleigh Region
12:30 PM (13) South Dakota State vs. (4) Purdue--Fresno Region
3:05 PM (11) Dayton vs. (6) Arkansas -- Raleigh Region
3:10 PM (15) Tennessee-Martin vs. (2) Tennessee--Des Moines Region
3:15 PM (11) Gonzaga vs. (6) Rutgers -- Kingston Region
3:20 PM (15) McNeese State vs. (2) Kentucky -- Kingston Region
5:30 PM (10) Brigham Young vs. (7) DePaul--Des Moines Region
5:30 PM (10) Iowa State vs. (7) Green Bay Kingston Region
5:30 PM (14) Albany vs. (3) Texas A&M -- Raleigh Region
5:30 PM (14) Idaho State vs. (3) Miami (FL) -- Kingston Region