Wolverines Earn NCAA Tournament At-Large Bid, Will Head to Evanston
5/4/2025 10:00:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- The University of Michigan women's lacrosse team claimed its fourth straight NCAA Tournament bid and will travel to Evanston, Ill., to the campus of Northwestern for the first and second rounds as announced Sunday evening (May 4) during the NCAA Selection Show.
U-M will take on Akron on Friday (May 9) at 2 p.m. CT in the first round, with the winner to face No. 3-seeded Northwestern, which received a bye, on Sunday (May 11) at 2 p.m. CT.
Michigan is making its fifth NCAA Tournament appearance as it hosted the first and second rounds in 2019 and earned first-round victories from 2022-24. U-M made its first NCAA quarterfinal appearance in 2024, defeating No. 4 Notre Dame in the second round on a last-second goal from Jill Smith.
This season, the Wolverines enter the tournament with a 12-6 overall record after making a semifinal appearance in the Big Ten Tournament. U-M went 4-4 against ranked opponents, including a top-five win over then-No. 5 Johns Hopkins.
Michigan is joined by three other Big Ten schools in the field of 29: No. 8-ranked Johns Hopkins, No. 6 Maryland and host No. 3 Northwestern.
