Official NCAA Release
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INDIANAPOLIS – The Great Midwest Athletic Conference placed two institutions in the field of 48 as the NCAA Division II Women’s Soccer Championship bracket was released on Monday evening.
The final field was determined by the NCAA DII Women’s Soccer Committee and each of the eight regions received six championship berths.
Receiving the Great Midwest automatic qualifier was undefeated Ohio Valley, slotted with the No. 3 seed in the Midwest Region bracket. The league received an additional at-large selection with the announcement of Ohio Dominican earning a No. 5 seed.
Ohio Valley, both the regular season and tournament champions of the Great Midwest, will put its 16-0-3 overall record on the line with the program’s first national tourney appearance against No. 6 Bellarmine on Thursday, Nov. 9, in Quincy.
Quincy, the No. 2 seed, will await the winner of the Fighting Scots and Knights for a Saturday matchup at 1 p.m. ET.
Ohio Dominican, the conference tournament runner-up by virtue of PK’s, leapfrogged both Ashland and Ferris State in the final Midwest Region rankings. The Panthers (15-4-2) strengthened their case for the Midwest Regional with a semifinal win over Walsh and the tie vs. the No. 20 team in the country, Ohio Valley.
ODU will take on No. 4 seed McKendree at 2 p.m. ET on Friday in Allendale, Mich., home of Grand Valley State. The Lakers are the top seed in the region and will play the winner of Ohio Dominican/McKendree on Sunday at 1 p.m. ET.
For first- and second-round competition, teams will be paired in their respective regions with the No. 4 seed playing the No. 5 seed; and the No. 3 seed facing the No. 6 seed Thursday, November 9 or Friday, November 10.
The winner of the No. 4/5 seed game will advance to play the No. 1 seed and the winner of the No. 3/6 seed game will take on the No. 2 seed on Saturday, November 11 or Sunday, November 12.
All games will be played on the campus of a participating institution and will consist of two sites per region.
The two finalists in each region will advance to third- and quarterfinal-round competition to be played Thursday, November 16 or Friday, November 17 and Saturday, November 18 or Sunday, November 19.
The semifinals and championship games will take place November 30 and December 2 at Children's Mercy Victory Field at Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City, Missouri hosted by the Kansas City Sports Commission, the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association, and Rockhurst University.
In the 2016 NCAA Division II Women's Soccer national championship game Western Washington defeated Grand Valley State, 3-2. Western Washington held off a furious final few minutes from Grand Valley State, who had won the last three national championships.