| Tournament details | |||
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| Host country | |||
| City | | ||
| Dates | November 12–20, 2011 | ||
| Venue | Trager Stadium | ||
| Final positions | |||
| Champions | Maryland (8th title) | ||
| Runner-up | North Carolina (14th title game) | ||
| Tournament statistics | |||
| Matches played | 15 | ||
| Goals scored | 70 (4.67 per match) | ||
| Top scorer(s) | Kelsey Kolojejchick, North Carolina (4 goals) | ||
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The 2011 NCAA Division I field hockey tournament was the 31st 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.
Defending champions Maryland Terrapins won their seventh championship, defeating North Carolina Tar Heels in the final, 3–2 in one overtime. This was a rematch of the previous two years' finals, won by the Tar Heels in 2009 and the Terrapins in 2010. [1]
The semifinals and championship were hosted by the University of Louisville at Trager Stadium in Louisville, Kentucky from November 18–20.
No teams made their debut in the NCAA Division I field hockey tournament this year.
| First round November 12 Campus sites | Second round November 13 Campus sites | Semifinals November 18 Louisville, KY | Championship November 20 Louisville, KY | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | North Carolina | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Ohio | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | North Carolina | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Michigan | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Michigan | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| New Hampshire | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | North Carolina | 4** | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Connecticut | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Penn State | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Northeastern | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Penn State | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Connecticut | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Connecticut | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Princeton | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | North Carolina | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Maryland | 3* | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Syracuse | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Richmond | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Syracuse | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Maryland | 2* | ||||||||||||||||||
| Maryland | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Iowa | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Maryland | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Old Dominion | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Duke | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stanford | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Duke | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Old Dominion | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Old Dominion | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Ohio State | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||