Bust out your dancing shoes. It's time to do the Chattanooga Choo-Choo.

The Penn State women's basketball team (19-10, 13-3 Big Ten) jitterbugged its way to a No. 4 seed in the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament in the Chattanooga Region, and is slated to duke it out with No. 13 seed Liberty (24-6, 13-1 Big South) on Sunday.

Both first- and second-round games will go down in the University of Maryland's Comcast Center -- close enough for the Lady Lions to bust out the old tour bus.

"We'll fight over what movie we're going to watch, and as long as [senior forward] Hazel [Joseph] isn't in charge, we should be all right," Penn State coach Rene Portland said. "[Jess Strom and Tanisha Wright] have already declared karaoke all the way from here down to College Park, but the front of the bus would win and that's where all the coaches sit."

After the traditional bus karaoke competition, the Lady Lions will attempt to redeem their heartbreaking loss to eventual Big Ten tournament champion Michigan State in the semifinals of the Big Ten tournament.

The Spartans were the lucky recipient of something Penn State got to enjoy in last year's NCAA tournament -- a No. 1 seed -- in the Kansas City Regional.

"To lock down a 1, 2, 3, 4 seed, I don't think that's ever happened before in this conference," Portland said.

The Big Ten is all over this year's NCAA tournament. Ohio State and Minnesota received No. 2 and No. 3 seeds in the Philadelphia and Tempe regions, respectively, and Purdue earned a spot as a No. 9 seed in the Philadelphia Region.

Should the Lady Lions survive the Flames in the first round, No. 5 DePaul (25-4) and No. 12 Virginia Tech (17-11) are poised as possible second-round opponents.

The No. 4 seed is high considering Penn State's 19-10 record and two eyebrow-raising road losses to Marquette and Northwestern, but the Lady Lions rode a high RPI rating from a beastly non-conference schedule and third-place finish in the Big Ten Conference.

The Lady Lions are the highest seeded team in the tournament with at least 10 losses, and one of only two teams with 10 losses that received higher than a No. 8 seed -- Virginia (20-10) is the No. 4 seed in the Tempe Region. It was all about the non-conference schedule.

"We were: see America first and win later," Portland said. "We were all over the country with that non-conference schedule playing and then we got into a zone that we were comfortable in and that was the league."

The Lady Lions will have six long days to prepare for all of their matchup possibilities, more time for Wright and Strom to rest their war wounds.

Penn State's collective heart skipped a beat during the Michigan State game when Strom had to be taken to the locker room in the first half after a bad ankle tumble. But Strom did come back in the second half, scoring 14 of her 16 points while wincing.

"It'll be fine," Strom said about her ankle, cocking her head upward in trademark Strom swagger.

The Lady Lions will certainly use the conference tournament as a push for success in the Big Dance. This team still feels the need to prove itself.

"I'll be honest, I was disappointed with the Big Ten tournament," Portland said. "I thought that was something that really got away from us. This team really need to buckle down and get the job done."