2009 D-I Field Hockey bracket released

Defending champ Maryland hasn’t lost this year, going 20-0 en route to an ACC title. Tonight, the Terps and 15 others learned their fates in the D-I Selection Show.

Five conferences were awarded automatic qualification. In addition, six conferences competed for three play-in berths and the remaining eight teams were selected at large.

The following conferences and their representatives received automatic qualification:

Atlantic Coast Conference       University of Maryland, College Park
Big East Conference                    University of Connecticut
Big Ten Conference                     Michigan State University
Colonial Athletic Assn              University of Delaware
Ivy Group                                       Princeton University

The teams winning the play-in berths were American University from the Patriot League, the University of Richmond from the Atlantic 10 Conference and Stanford University from the Northern Pacific Field Hockey Conference.

The NCAA championship bracket lists the eight at-large teams, as well as the pairings, sites and dates.

First- and second-round games will be played on four campus sites November 14 and 15. Wake Forest University will host the semifinals and final, November 20 and 22 at Kentner Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. For ticket information, call 888/758-3322.

In 2008, Maryland claimed its sixth NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship title with a 4-2 victory over Wake Forest at Trager Stadium in Louisville, Kentucky.

To see how the Terps clinched their perfect season and the ACC Championship, check out the video below.

Hoops: Stanford Final Four bound; Maryland’s NCAA tourney run ends

April 1, 2008 – The Terrapins fell in their Elite Eight game to Stanford, and a particularly hot-shooting Candice Wiggins who had 41 points.  The Terrapins got behind after about five or six minutes  and despite shooting better than 60 percent in the first half, trailed by 10 at intermission.

It was a way different story from Maryland’s comeback win to beat Duke in the national championship game two years ago.  All five Terps starters scored in double figures, marking the first time this season that Maryland lost when five of its players scored 10 or more. Junior Kristi Toliver had a career-high and NCAA tournament school-record 35 points for Maryland (33-4), including 11 straight in one second-half push as the Terps tried to erase a 17-point Cardinal lead.

Stanford and LSU, a winner over North Carolina, are in the Final Four along with the winners of tonight’s games — Texas A&M-Tennessee and Rutgers Connecticut.

Final stats