NCAA Womens Soccer tournament

INDIANAPOLIS - The field of 64 groups, that will contend for 34th NCAA Division I Women’s Soccer Championship, had been announced today because of the Division We Women’s Soccer Committee.

The protecting nationwide champion Florida State, the automated qualifier out of the Atlantic Coast meeting (ACC), earned a premier seed and fellow ACC member and also the 2014 runner-up Virginia. Penn State and Stanford additionally received # 1 seeds after obtaining automatic skills through the Big Ten and Pac-12, correspondingly.

Evansville, an automatic qualifier from Missouri Valley Conference will deal with Florida State in opening round. Virginia will host Howard, the automated qualifier from Southwestern Athletic meeting. Penn State will host Albany (NY), the American East champion, in the 1st round and Stanford will host San Jose State, the Mountain western champion.

The # 2 seeds feature Florida, western Virginia, Rutgers and Clemson. Capturing the number 3 seeds are new york, Notre Dame, California, and Duke. Virginia Tech, Santa Clara, Southern Ca and Auburn each received a No. 4 seed to complete the most notable 16 seeded teams.

The ACC led all seminars with eight groups within the event. The SEC and Pac-12 used with six groups and the Big Ten may have five associates within year’s event.

Thirty-one conferences had been approved automated estimates the 2015 tournament, whilst the staying 33 teams had been chosen at-large. The top 16 teams tend to be seeded and conference teams cannot play both in the first- or second-rounds. Whenever combining teams, the committee uses geographic distance variables. The most notable 16 teams will host and all websites had been selected the first-round to generate the smallest amount of few routes.

First-round games should be played at campus websites November 13, 14 and 15. Second-round games will likely to be played Friday, November 20, at campus internet sites, and third-round games will likely to be played Sunday, November 22, at the same campus web sites. Quarterfinal games is played November 27 or 28 in addition on university web sites.

The 34th annual NCAA Women’s university Cup should be played December 4 and December 6 at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina, with Campbell University and the Town of Cary offering as co-hosts. Initial national semifinal will likely to be played and shown live on ESPNU at 5 p.m. Eastern Time Friday, December 4. The second semifinal will begin at about 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time survive ESPNU. The nationwide tournament match will take spot at Noon Eastern Time on Sunday, December 6 and will also broadcast survive ESPNU.