2018 NCAA Division I field hockey tournament

2018 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship

Tournament details
Country	United States
Teams	18
Final positions
Champions	North Carolina (7th title)
Runners-up	Maryland (13th title match)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	17
Goals scored	63 (3.71 per match)
Awards
Best player	Ashley Hoffman
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The 2018 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship is the 38th annual tournament organized by the NCAA, to determine the national champion of Division I women's college field hockey in the United States.

The semifinals and championship match will be played at Trager Stadium at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky from November 16 to 18, 2018. ^[1]

Qualified teams

Main article: 2018 NCAA Division I field hockey season

• A total of 18 teams will qualify for the 2018 tournament, the same number of teams as 2017. 10 teams will receive automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments and an additional 8 teams will earn at-large bids based on their regular season records.

Automatic qualifiers Conference Champion Record America East Albany 16-4 ACC North Carolina 19-0 Atlantic 10 Saint Joseph's 18-2 Big East Connecticut 18-3 Big Ten Maryland 19-2 CAA William & Mary 11-7 Ivy Harvard 16-1 MAAC Monmouth 13-6 MAC Miami (OH) 15-6 Patriot Boston University 12-7

At-large qualifiers Team Conference Record Duke ACC 15-5 Iowa Big Ten 14-6 Michigan Big Ten 13-6 Penn State Big Ten 12-5 Princeton Ivy 13-4 Rutgers Big Ten 13-5 Virginia ACC 9-9 Wake Forest ACC 11-9

Bracket

	Opening round November 7, 2018 Campus sites					First round November 9, 2018 Campus sites					Second round November 11, 2018 Campus sites					Semifinals November 16, 2018 Louisville, Kentucky Trager Stadium					Championship November 18, 2018 Louisville, Kentucky Trager Stadium
						1	North Carolina*	4
							William & Mary	0
		William & Mary*	3
		Monmouth	2
											1	North Carolina	5
												Michigan	3
							Saint Joseph's	2
							Michigan*	3
																1	North Carolina	4
																	Wake Forest	1
							Iowa*	2
							Wake Forest	3
												Wake Forest	1*
											4	Duke	0
		Boston University*	0
		Miami (OH)	2
							Miami (OH)	0
						4	Duke*	1
																					1	North Carolina	2
																					2	Maryland	0
						3	Princeton*	2
							Virginia	1
											3	Princeton	2
												Harvard	1
							Harvard	6
							Penn State*	1
																3	Princeton	0
																2	Maryland	1*
							Connecticut*	5
							Rutgers	0
												Connecticut	1
											2	Maryland	2*
							Albany	1
						2	Maryland*	2

See also

• NCAA Division II Field Hockey Championship
• NCAA Division III Field Hockey Championship

References

1. "2019-22 NCAA Championship Sites". Ncaa.com. Retrieved 2017-11-12.