| Tournament details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Host country | |||
| City | | ||
| Dates | November 15–23, 2008 | ||
| Venue | Trager Stadium | ||
| Final positions | |||
| Champions | Maryland (6th title) | ||
| Runner-up | Wake Forest (5th title game) | ||
| Tournament statistics | |||
| Matches played | 15 | ||
| Goals scored | 73 (4.87 per match) | ||
| Top scorer(s) | Hilary Moore, Wake Forest (7 goals) | ||
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The 2008 NCAA Division I field hockey tournament was the 28th 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 sixth championship, defeating Wake Forest in the final, 4–2. [1]
The semifinals and championship were hosted by the University of Louisville at Trager Stadium in Louisville, Kentucky from November 21–23.
Albany made their debut in the NCAA Division I field hockey tournament.
| First round November 15 Campus sites | Second round November 16 Campus sites | Semifinals November 21 Louisville, KY | Championship November 23 Louisville, KY | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Maryland | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Albany | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Maryland | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
| Duke | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Duke | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Connecticut | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Maryland | 2* | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Iowa | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Michigan State | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| North Carolina | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Michigan State | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Iowa | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Iowa | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Louisville | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Maryland | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Wake Forest | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Syracuse | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Massachusetts | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Syracuse | 3* | |||||||||||||||||
| Princeton | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Princeton | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Penn State | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Syracuse | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Wake Forest | 3* | |||||||||||||||||
| Virginia | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| James Madison | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Virginia | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Wake Forest | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Wake Forest | 7 | |||||||||||||||||
| American | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||