2018 NCAA Spring Championships

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The bracket for D1 men's lacrosse has been released. Each of the conference champions received auto bids: Albany (America East); Georgetown (Big East); Johns Hopkins (Big Ten); UMass (CAA); Cornell (Ivy); Canisius (MAAC); Robert Morris (NEC); Loyola, MD (Patriot); Richmond (Southern). The remaining teams were selected on an at-large basis: Denver; Duke; Maryland; Notre Dame; Syracuse; Villanova; Virginia; Yale.

Canisius will play Robert Morris in the opening round (play-in) on May 9, then the first round games will be May 12-13. Last year's national champion, Maryland, received an at-large bid and the #1 overall seed. The final four and championship will be May 26-28 at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass.

Bracket: https://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracke ... sse-men/d1

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In DII men's lacrosse, the championship field has also been announced. 8 teams make up the bracket, four from the north and four from the south. In all games except the championship, they will be played at host team sites with the first round scheduled on May 12. In the north region, Merrimack received the top seed. In the south region, Lenoir-Rhyne received the top seed. Last year's national champion, Limestone, did not make the championship field.

The championship will be May 27 at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass.

Bracket: https://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracke ... se-men/d2/

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DIII men's lacrosse is way different than DI-II, in the fact that 36 teams make the tournament. Automatic qualification (AQ) is granted to 25 conference champions, which form “Pool A.” Two teams are selected from true independents and schools from conferences that do not have an automatic bid for their champions (Pool B). The remaining nine teams are selected from those teams in conferences with automatic bids that did not win their conference’s AQ and the remaining Pool B institutions (Pool C). The teams are geographically paired, whenever possible.

All games, except for the championship, will be played at host team sites. The championship will be May 27 at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass.

Numerous teams from Ohio made the bracket including:

John Carroll
Ohio Wesleyan
Denison

Bracket: https://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracke ... sse-men/d3

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27 teams have been selected to comprise the field for DI women's lacrosse. Last year's national champion, Maryland, has been selected as the #1 overall seed. Wagner and Mercer will play in the opening round game on May 8. The first and second rounds will be hosted at one of four regional sites (hosted by the region's highest seed). First and second round play will be May 11 and 13, with the championship and final four schedule for May 25 and 27 in Stony Brook, NY.

Bracket: https://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracke ... e-women/d1

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The 12 team field for DII women's lacrosse has been revealed. First and second round games will be played at one of four host sites on May 11 and 12. The winner of each of the four regionals will advance to the semifinals and finals, May 18 and 20 at the University of Tampa Lacrosse Stadium in Tampa, Florida.

Last year's national champion, Adelphi, received the #2 seed in the Le Moyne regional.

Bracket: https://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracke ... e-women/d2

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The final championship field that was revealed on Sunday was DIII women's lacrosse, which is made up of 42 teams. Twenty-nine conferences have been awarded automatic qualification for the championship. Two teams have been selected from Pool B, which consists of independent institutions and institutions that are members of conferences that do not meet the requirements for automatic qualification. The final 11 berths are reserved for Pool C, which includes the remaining institutions in conferences with automatic qualification that are not the conference champion plus remaining independents and members of non-qualifying conferences.

Ten first-round games will be conducted Saturday, May 12 with the winners advancing to the second round. Sixteen second-round games will be conducted on Sunday, May 13 with the winners advancing to one of four regional sites Saturday and Sunday, May 19-20. Winners of the four regionals will advance to the semifinals and final, which take place Saturday and Sunday, May 26-27 at Kerr Stadium in Salem, Virginia. The Old Dominion Athletic Conference and the City of Salem will serve as hosts for the championship

Teams from Ohio to qualify:

Denison
Mount Union

Bracket: https://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracke ... e-women/d3

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In addition to all the qualifying from Sunday, one national champion has also been crowned. UCLA has claimed the national title in beach volleyball, their first in program history, and the only teams except USC to win, since its inception in 2016. The Bruins had to take the unconventional path to the title, that being through the loser's bracket after losing their second round match, to the team they would eventually beat to win the title, Florida State. UCLA was the bracket's #1 team and had to take this path to win:

vs. #8 Florida International - W 3-0
vs. #4 Florida State - L 3-1
vs. #7 LSU - W 3-0
vs. #5 USC - W 3-1
vs. #3 Hawaii - W 3-2
vs. #4 Florida State - W 3-1

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The NCAA Division II Softball Committee has selected the 64 teams that will participate in the 2018 NCAA Division II Softball Championship. Four teams will participate at each of the 16 regional sites in double-elimination tournaments, held May 10-12. Winners will advance to the super regionals, slated for May 17-18. The finals will be held May 24-28 at the Moyer Sports Complex in Salem, Virginia and will be hosted by the Mountain East Conference and the city of Salem.

None of the 64 qualifying teams were out of Ohio. Last year's national champion, Minnesota State, received the #4 seed in the Magnolia, Arkansas regional.

Regional brackets: https://i.turner.ncaa.com/sites/default ... 2_2018.pdf

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The NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis Committee has selected the 43 teams that will compete in the 2018 NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis Championships. The teams will play a single-elimination tournament with the first-, second- and third-rounds played at regional sites, Thursday-Saturday, May 10-12, or Friday-Sunday, May 11-13. Claremont- Mudd-Scripps will host the team championship finals, which will be held May 21-26 at The Biszantz Family Tenns Center in Claremont, California. Student-athletes selected to the individual championships will be announced Wednesday, May 9.

The championship provides for a 43-team tournament. Automatic qualification (AQ) is granted to 36 conference champions, which form "Pool A." One team is selected from true independents and schools from conferences that do not have an automatic bid for their champions (Pool B). The remaining six teams are selected from those teams in conferences with automatic bids that did not win their conference's AQ and the remaining Pool B institutions (Pool C). The teams are geographically paired, whenever possible.

Kenyon and John Carroll received auto bids as conference champions.

Bracket: https://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/tennis-men/d3

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The NCAA Division III Women’s Tennis Committee has selected the 49 teams that will compete in the 2018 NCAA Division III Women’s Tennis Championships. The teams will play a single-elimination tournament with the first, second- and third- rounds played at regional sites, Friday-Sunday, May 11-13, or Thursday-Saturday, May 10-12. Claremont McKenna-Harvey Mudd Scripps Colleges will host the team championships finals, which will be held May 21-23 at Biszantz Tennis Center in Claremont, California. Student-athletes selected to the individual championships will be announced Wednesday, May 9.

The championships provide for a 49-team tournament. Automatic qualification (AQ) is granted to 40 conference champions, which form "Pool A." One team will be selected from true independents and schools from conferences that do not have an automatic bid for their champions (Pool B). The remaining 8 teams are selected from those teams in conferences with automatic bids that did not win their conference's AQ and the remaining Pool B institutions (Pool C). The teams are geographically paired, whenever possible.

Kenyon and John Carroll both received auto bids as conference champions.

Bracket: https://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracke ... s-women/d3

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The NCAA Division III Softball Committee has announced the 62 teams that will compete in the Division III Softball Championship. The regional round will be held May 11-13. Four teams will compete at 14 regional sites and three teams will compete at two regional sites. The team advancing from each regional will compete in the super regional round May 18 and 19. The finals, hosted by the University of Central Oklahoma and the Oklahoma City All-Sports Association, will be held May 24-29 at USA Softball Hall of Fame Complex in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. All rounds will use a double-elimination format.

Forty-two conferences received an automatic qualification (Pool A). One institution was selected from Pool B, which includes independent institutions and institutions from conferences that do not meet the automatic qualification criteria. The 19 remaining teams were selected on an at-large basis from automatic qualifying conferences and the remaining institutions in Pool B.

Ohio Dominican received an auto bid as a conference champion. Case Western also received an at-large bid.

Regional brackets: https://i.turner.ncaa.com/sites/default ... 3_2018.pdf

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The NCAA Division III Men's Golf Committee has announced the teams and individuals selected to participate in the 2018 NCAA Division III Men’s Golf Championships. The championships, which will be held May 15-18 at Grandover Resort, in Greensboro, North Carolina, will be hosted by Guilford College and the Greensboro Sports Commission.

A total of 216 participants will compete at the 2018 championships. Thirty-three conferences were awarded an automatic qualification for the championships. Two teams were selected from Pool B, which consists of independent institutions and institutions that are members of conferences that do not meet the requirements for automatic qualification. The final seven berths were reserved for Pool C, which are institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champion and any remaining Pool B teams. The six individuals are selected from the remaining players who have not qualified with a team.

Wittenberg and Otterbein received auto bids as conference champions. Ryan Muthiora from Kenyon qualified as one of the 6 individuals to make the tournament. Wittenberg was last year's national champion and qualified again this year.

Full qualifier list: https://www.ncaa.com/news/golf-men/arti ... s-revealed

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Here is the schedule for the championship tournaments (not the release date):

DIII Women's Golf - May 8 - 11
DII Women's Tennis - May 8 - 12
DII Men's Tennis - May 9 - 12
Women's Water Polo - May 13
DIII Men's Golf - May 15 - 18
DII Women's Golf - May 16 - 19
DI Men's Tennis - May 17 - 28
DI Women's Tennis - May 17 - 28
DI Women's Golf - May 18 - 23
DII Women's Lacrosse - May 20
DII Men's Golf - May 21 - 25
DIII Men's Tennis - May 21 - 26
DIII Women's Tennis - May 21 - 26
DII Track & Field - May 24 - 26
DIII Track & Field - May 24 - 26
DII Softball - May 24 - 28
DIII Softball - May 24 - 29
DIII Baseball - May 25 - 29
DI Men's Golf - May 25 - 30
DIII Rowing - May 25 - 26
DI Rowing - May 25 - 27
DII Rowing - May 25 - 27
DII Baseball - May 26 - June 2
DI Women's Lacrosse - May 27
DIII Women's Lacrosse - May 27
DII Men's Lacrosse - May 27
DIII Men's Lacrosse - May 27
DI Men's Lacrosse - May 28
DI Softball - May 31 - June 6
DI Track & Field - June 6 - 9
DI Baseball - June 16 - 27

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DII women's golf regional play has concluded and the final national qualifiers have been announced. The following teams have qualified:

Augustana (SD)
Lindenwood (MO)
Arkansas Tech
Indianapolis
Grand Valley State
Missouri-St Louis
Barry
Rollins
Nova Southeastern
Dallas Baptist
West Texas A&M
California Baptist

Two individuals from Ohio colleges have also qualified:

Makenzie Torres (Findlay)
Krystal Hu (Ashland)

The full qualifiers list is here: https://www.ncaa.com/news/golf-women/ar ... -set-after

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Just like DII women's golf, the championship qualifiers for DII men's golf after regional play has been announced. The regional champion out of the four regions are as follows: Roberts Wesleyan (Atlantic/East); Indianapolis (Central/Midwest); West Florida (South/Southeast); St. Mary's, TX (South Central/West). Those teams as well as between 2-4 other teams out of each regional has qualified for the championship, as well as two individuals not on a qualifying team from each regional.

Tiffin qualified as a team out of the Cental/Midwest Regional after a second place finish over the 3-day event. The championship will be May 21-25 at the Shoals Golf Club in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, hosted by the University of North Alabama.

Full qualifier list: https://www.ncaa.com/news/golf-men/arti ... -announced

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The field has been announced for the DI women's golf national championship after regional play was concluded yesterday. The top six teams and three individuals not on a qualifying team have advanced to the national championship which will be held May 18 - 23 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, hosted by Oklahoma State. The four regional champions were as follows: Arkansas (Austin); Duke (Madison); Stanford (San Francisco); Alabama (Tallahassee).

The following teams from Ohio have qualified for the championship: Ohio State (Madison); Kent State (San Francisco).

Full qualifier list: https://www.ncaa.com/news/golf-women/ar ... mpionships

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The DIII women's golf national championship couldn't have been any more dramatic. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps entered the final day of competition with a 4 stroke lead over Williams, in which Williams used a team best round of +21 to not only come back and tie, but actually take a two stroke lead at one point. CMS eventually battled back to tie it and send it into sudden death. The two teams played a two hole playoff to decide the winner, and it ended up being Clarement-Mudd-Scripps, claiming their first ever national title.

Clarement-Mudd-Scripps, Margaret Loncki also took home the individual national title, finishing the week at +11.

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Barry has won the DII national championship in women's tennis, claiming their 2nd in a row, and 4th in program history. Not only did they win the title, but they finished their season in undefeated fashion. Their path to the title included:

vs. Drury - W 5-0
vs. Academy of Art - W 5-2
vs. Columbus State - W 5-3
vs. West Florida - W 5-0

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Columbus State (GA) has claimed their first national title in DII men's tennis. They were the #2 seed in the national tournament, and defeated Barry in the championship match in a thriller, 5-4. Their run to the title included:

vs. St. Edwards - W 5-0
vs. Concordia (NY) - W 5-2
vs. Indianapolis - W 5-3
vs. Barry - W 5-4

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The bracket for DI softball has been released. 64 teams qualify for the tournament, 32 auto bids (conference champs), and 32 at-large bids. The top 16 teams in the tournament received the opportunity to host one of sixteen regionals. Regionals will May 17-20, at each of the 16 sites, there are 4 teams, and a double elimination tournament will be conducted. The champ at each site will advance to the super regional which will be held May 24-27 at eight campus sites. At each of those sites, there will be two teams who will play a best-of-three series. The winner at each super regional will advance to the Women's College World Series.

Oklahoma was last year's national champion, winning their second consecutive, they received the #4 overall seed in this year's tournament. Ohio won the MAC and received an automatic bid, Ohio State received an at-large bid to the tournament.

Bracket: https://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracke ... ll/d1/2018