2017 NCAA Division I field hockey tournament

Football tournament season
2017 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship
Tournament details
CountryUnited States
Teams18
Final positions
ChampionsConnecticut (5th title)
Runner-upMaryland (9th title match)
Tournament statistics
Matches played17
Goals scored70 (4.12 per match)
← 2016
2018 →

The 2017 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship is the 37th 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 17 to 19, 2017.[1]

Qualified teams

  • A total of 18 teams qualified for the 2017 tournament, the same number of teams as 2016. 10 teams received automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments and an additional 8 teams earned at-large bids based on their regular season records.[2]

Automatic qualifiers

Conference Champion Record
America East Stanford 13–7
ACC North Carolina 16–4
Atlantic 10 Saint Joseph's 18–3
Big East Connecticut 19–0
Big Ten Michigan 19–2
CAA Delaware 15–4
Ivy Princeton 11–6
MAAC Fairfield 9–11
MAC Miami (OH) 11–8
Patriot Boston University 13–7


At-large qualifiers

Team Conference Record
Duke ACC 16–3
Louisville ACC 14–7
Northwestern Big Ten 14–6
Maryland Big Ten 13–6
Penn State Big Ten 16–4
Syracuse ACC 12–6
Virginia ACC 15–4
Wake Forest ACC 12–7

Bracket

Opening round
November 8, 2017
Campus sites 		First round
November 11, 2017
Campus sites 		Second round
November 12, 2017
Campus sites 		Semifinals
November 17, 2017
Louisville, Kentucky
Trager Stadium 		Championship
November 19, 2017
Louisville, Kentucky
Trager Stadium
               
1 Connecticut* 3
Boston University 1
Fairfield 0
Boston University* 5
1 Connecticut* 4
Penn State 3
Delaware 1
Penn State* 2 (OT)
1 Connecticut* 2
4 North Carolina 1
Virginia* 2
Princeton 3 (OT)
Princeton 2
4 North Carolina* 3
Saint Joseph's 0
4 North Carolina* 4
1 Connecticut 2
Maryland 1
3 Michigan* 1 (OT)
Syracuse 0
3 Michigan* 3
Northwestern 0
Louisville 2
Northwestern* 3 (OT)
3 Michigan 1
Maryland* 5
Maryland* 2
Wake Forest 0
Maryland 3
Duke* 2
Stanford* 1
Miami (OH) 2
Miami (OH) 2
2 Duke* 4

See also

References

  1. ^ "2014-18 NCAA Championship Sites". Ncaa.com. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
  2. ^ "UConn, Duke claim top seeds in Division I Field Hockey Championship bracket". Ncaa.com. Retrieved 2017-11-07.