Four Teams Selected for NCAA Rowing Championship

Complete List of Selections & Seeds

ROSEMONT, Ill. – Four Big Ten teams have been selected to participate in the 2024 NCAA Rowing Championship, the organization announced Tuesday. Michigan earned the conference’s automatic qualification after winning the Big Ten Championships on Sunday, while Indiana, Ohio State and Rutgers were at-large selections for the 22-team regatta. The championship will be held May 31 – June 2 at East Fork/Harsha Lake in Bethel, Ohio and will be covered live on NCAA.com.

For the second year in a row, the Big Ten earned four bids, the most since five teams competed in the 2019 NCAA Championship. The Big Ten leads the way along with the Ivy League for the most of any conference to compete at this year’s event.

Teams participating in the NCAA Championship are required to field two boats of eight rowers (I Eights and II Eights) and one boat of four rowers (Fours), with all 22 boats being seeded into four heats.

Michigan will make its 16th consecutive NCAA Championship appearance and 25th overall after claiming its ninth Big Ten title. The Wolverines have placed in the top five in 11 of their previous 22 appearances, including three of the past six seasons, with a school-best runner-up finish in both 2001 and 2012. Michigan is seeded No. 11 in the I Eights, No. 10 in the II Eights and No. 6 in the Fours heading into the NCAA regatta.

Indiana is back in the NCAA Championship for the second-straight time and will be making its eighth championship regatta appearance after collecting a second-place finish at last week’s Big Ten Championship, a program record. Looking for the program’s first top-10 finish, the Hoosiers are ranked No. 12 in the I and II Eights, while checking in at No. 14 in the Fours.

Ohio State earned its 24th consecutive NCAA Championship appearance, owning seven individual boat titles and 21 top-10 finishes as a team. The Buckeyes claimed three NCAA championships (2013, 2014, 2015) and placed second in 2016. Ohio State is the No. 13 seed in the I and II Eights and No. 9 seed in the Fours of this year’s NCAA finals.

Rutgers is headed into its fifth consecutive NCAA Championship, coming off a third-place showing at the Big Ten Championships last weekend, its highest finish at the conference regatta under head coach Justin Price. The Scarlet Knights have been seeded at No. 14 in the I Eights, No. 11 in the II Eights and No. 13 in the Fours for the NCAA competition.

Since the Big Ten first sponsored rowing as a conference sport in 2000, the conference has won three team NCAA titles (Ohio State’s crowns from 2013-15). Big Ten crews have won 10 individual NCAA championships since 2000 – Ohio State has seven of those titles with three in the I Eights (2014-16), two in the II Eights (2013-14) and two in the Fours (2012-13). The additional conference individual boat NCAA crowns belong to Michigan (2001, 2012) and Minnesota (2007) in the II Eights.