Official NCAA Announcement
Interactive NCAA Championship Bracket
INDIANAPOLIS – The Great Midwest Athletic Conference will be sending two women’s soccer programs into the NCAA Division II Championship Midwest Regional following Monday night’s selection show announcement by the national committee.
Great Midwest champ and auto qualifier Ohio Valley earned the No. 2 seed will be headed to Allendale, Mich., while at-large selection Walsh is slotted at No. 4 and ticketed to Big Rapids, Mich., for their first-round quarterfinal matchups.
OVU is back in the national tournament field for the second straight year and faces No. 7 Ashland (GLIAC) on Thursday, Nov. 8. A start time has been designated for 11 AM ET.
Walsh makes its first national tourney appearance as a member of the Great Midwest after finishing as the conference championship runner-up. The Cavaliers will face a first-round draw vs. Saginaw Valley State (GLIAC) on Friday, Nov. 9.
A start time during the official NCAA announcement between WU and SVSU was still to be determined.
The Atlantic, South and South Central regions received six championship berths. The Southeast and West regions received seven championship berths. The Central, East and Midwest regions received eight championship berths. Championship berths were determined based on the number of institutions sponsoring the sport in each region. A total of 56 teams are in this year’s bracket.
For first and second-round competition, teams will compete at three or four-team sites. Depending on the number of regional berths, the Nos. 1 and 2 seeds may have a bye in the first round. In regions with six berths, 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. 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. In regions with seven berths, the No. 2 seed will play the No. 7 seed in the first round. In regions with eight berths, the No. 1 seed will play the No. 8 seed in the first round.
First-round matches will take place Thursday, Nov. 8 or Friday, Nov. 9, and second-round matches will take place either Saturday, Nov. 10 or Sunday, Nov. 11. 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 subregion will advance to third- and quarterfinal-round competition to be played Thursday, Nov. 15 or Friday, Nov. 16 and Saturday, Nov. 17 or Sunday, Nov. 18. The semifinals and championship games will take place Nov. 29 and Dec. 1 at Highmark Stadium in Pittsburgh hosted by Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, and SportsPITTSBURGH.
In the 2017 NCAA Division II Women's Soccer national championship game Central Missouri defeated Carson-Newman to win the program’s first national title.