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4 Teams Selected for NCAA Women's Lacrosse Tournament
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ROSEMONT, Ill. – Four Big Ten women’s lacrosse teams will continue their seasons this week, as Johns Hopkins, Maryland, Michigan, and Northwestern have been selected to participate in the 2025 NCAA Tournament.
Three of those teams, Northwestern, Maryland, and Johns Hopkins, were named among the tournament’s top eight seeds and will host both first and second round competition.
Since the Big Ten began sponsoring women’s lacrosse in 2015, the league has received at least three tournament bids every season.
First-round games will be played Friday (May 9) with second-round matchups taking place next Sunday (May 11). The quarterfinals are then slated for Thursday, May 15. Those first three rounds will all take place at campus sites around the country.
The quarterfinal winners will advance to the NCAA national semifinals and championship, which will take place May 23 and 25 at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
Games in the first two rounds will be broadcast on ESPN+, with quarterfinal and semifinal rounds broadcast on ESPNU. The National Championship game will be broadcast live on ESPN at 12 noon ET.
Northwestern (16-2, 8-0 Big Ten) was selected as the number three overall seed and is one of three teams to earn a bye into the second round. On Sunday, the Wildcats will make their 26th NCAA Tournament appearance when they host the winner of a first-round game between Michigan and Akron at 3 p.m. ET.
Maryland (14-5, 7-1), the tournament’s number six seed, will make its 40th NCAA Tournament appearance when it plays host to MAAC champion Fairfield on Friday at 12 noon ET. Awaiting Friday’s winner will be Penn or Army, who appeared in the Ivy League and Patriot League Tournament semifinal rounds.
Johns Hopkins (12-6, 5-3) earned the number eight overall seed and will play host to ASUN champion Liberty. Making their 13th tournament appearance, the Blue Jays will face the tournament newcomers at 2 p.m. ET on Friday. The winner of this first round matchup will face either Atlantic 10 champion UMass or Ivy League runner-up Princeton on Sunday.
Michigan (12-6, 5-3) will make its fourth consecutive tournament appearance and fifth all-time when the Wolverines face MAC champion Akron at 3 p.m. at Northwestern. Friday’s winner will face overall No. 3 seed Northwestern on Sunday.