| Tournament details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Host country | |||
| City | | ||
| Dates | November 14–22, 1998 | ||
| Venue | Franklin Field | ||
| Final positions | |||
| Champions | Old Dominion (8th title) | ||
| Runner-up | Princeton (3rd title game) | ||
| Tournament statistics | |||
| Matches played | 11 | ||
| Goals scored | 52 (4.73 per match) | ||
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The 1998 NCAA Division I field hockey tournament was the 18th annual tournament organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to determine the national champion of women's collegiate field hockey in the United States.
Old Dominion won their third championship, defeating Princeton in the final. [1]
The championship rounds were held at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. It was the final tournament with a twelve-team field before an expansion to sixteen teams in 1999.
| First round November 14 Campus sites | Second round November 15 Campus sites | Semifinals November 20 Philadelphia, PA | Championship November 22 Philadelphia, PA | ||||||||||||||||
| North Carolina | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Northeastern | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Old Dominion | 7 | |||||||||||||||||
| North Carolina | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Old Dominion | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Virginia | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Virginia | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Kent State | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Maryland | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Virginia | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Old Dominion | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Princeton | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Boston College | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| New Hampshire | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Connecticut | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Boston College | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Connecticut | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Princeton | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Penn State | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Massachusetts | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Princeton | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Penn State | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||