The plan was to release the NCAA women’s tournament bracket at 7 p.m. ET during ESPN’s selection show, but that went up in flames on Monday afternoon.

The bracket was accidentally aired on ESPNU’s ‘Bracketology” show mid-afternoon and the network had to quickly apologize and change its plans.

“In working with the NCAA to prepare for tonight’s Women’s Selection Special we received the bracket, similar to years past,” the Worldwide Leader said in a statement. “In the midst of our preparation, the bracket was mistakenly posted on ESPNU. We deeply regret the error and extend our apology to the NCAA and the women’s basketball community. We will conduct a thorough review of our process to ensure it doesn’t happen in the future. We will now broadcast the full bracket at 5 p.m. ET on ESPN2, and the regularly-scheduled show on ESPN at 7 p.m.”

The leaked bracket is indeed legitimate and showed Louisville, Notre Dame, Mississippi State and Baylor as No. 1 seeds.

The NCAA addressed the error as well.

“An unfortunate technical error by ESPN revealed the 2019 NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship bracket earlier today. We regret the network’s mistake and are working with our partners at ESPN to prevent similar errors in future years. We look forward to collaborating with ESPN to bring fans exciting women’s basketball tournament coverage throughout the remainder of the championship.”

At least this time, ESPN is responsible for the leak and not some internet rogue who tweeted out the full bracket mid-selection show.

The women’s NCAA tournament begins on Friday, with the Final Four slated for April 5 and the national championship game for April 7.