Wolverines To Host NCAA First and Second Rounds
11/11/2002 12:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
Michigan (13-5-2) will face Oakland (10-11-1) at 2 p.m. Friday, following the 11 a.m. match between Michigan State (12-6-2) and Miami of Ohio (18-2-2). Friday's winners will advance into the second round and play Sunday at noon.
Tickets for each day will be $7 for adults. Students from participating institutions, students aged 18 and under and senior citizens will be charged $3 for admission. There will be a $1 charge for children under five years old.
Michigan has already faced Oakland once this season, earning a 2-0 victory Oct. 27 at the U-M Soccer Field. Michigan is 3-0-1 in four all-time meetings with the Golden Grizzlies. OU earned the Mid-Continent Conference's automatic bid by winning the Mid-Con Tournament championship with a penalty-kick victory over Oral Roberts (Nov. 10).
The Maize and Blue received one of 35 at-large berths into the NCAA Tournament after a 13-5-1 regular season. Michigan, which was second in the Big Ten Conference with a 7-2-1 league record, earned a 1-1 tie against Ohio State (Nov. 7) in the first round of last week's Big Ten Tournament but was eliminated in a penalty-kick shootout, 3-2.
The Big Ten boasts six entrants into the NCAA Tournament, tying the Atlantic Coast and Pacific-10 for the most by any conference in the nation. Ohio State earned the Big Ten's automatic bid by defeating Wisconsin 2-1 in the Big Ten Tournament final. Wisconsin's finals appearance boosted the Badgers into the tournament. Regular-season conference champion Penn State, Purdue and Michigan State round out the Big Ten's participants.
The NCAA third and quarterfinal rounds will be held at campus sites. Third-round matchups will be played Nov. 22-24 and quarterfinals will be held Nov. 29-Dec. 1. The four semifinalists will descend on Austin, Texas, Dec. 6-8 for the 2002 NCAA College Cup, hosted by the University of Texas.
Contact: Andrew Ladd (734) 763-4423
