| Tournament details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Host country | |||
| City | | ||
| Dates | November 11–19, 2006 | ||
| Venue | Kentner Stadium | ||
| Final positions | |||
| Champions | Maryland (5th title) | ||
| Runner-up | Wake Forest (4th title game) | ||
| Tournament statistics | |||
| Matches played | 15 | ||
| Goals scored | 58 (3.87 per match) | ||
| Top scorer(s) | Lauren Crandall, Wake Forest (4 goals) | ||
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The 2006 NCAA Division I field hockey tournament was the 26th annual tournament organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to determine the national champion of women's collegiate field hockey among its Division I members in the United States.
Maryland won their fifth championship, defeating Wake Forest in the final, 1–0. [1]
The semifinals and championship were held at Kentner Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, hosted by Wake Forest University.
No teams made their debut in the NCAA Division I field hockey tournament.
| First round November 11 Campus sites | Second round November 12 Campus sites | Semifinals November 17 Winston-Salem, NC | Championship November 19 Winston-Salem, NC | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Wake Forest | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| American | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Wake Forest | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Virginia | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Virginia | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Iowa | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Wake Forest | 5** | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Duke | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Ohio State (OT) | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| California | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ohio State | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Duke | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Duke | 3* | |||||||||||||||||
| James Madison | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Wake Forest | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Maryland | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Princeton | 3* | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Old Dominion | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Princeton | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Connecticut | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Connecticut | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Boston University | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Connecticut | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Maryland | 2† | |||||||||||||||||
| Penn State | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| North Carolina | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Penn State | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Maryland | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Maryland | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Richmond | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||