2020 NCAA Division I field hockey tournament

Football tournament season

The 2020 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship was the 40th 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 were scheduled to be played at LR Hill Sport Complex at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia from November 20 to 22, 2020, however, the tournament was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] The semifinals and championship match was held from May 7 to 9, 2021 at Karen Shelton Stadium at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Qualified teams

  • A total of 12 teams qualified for the 2020 tournament. Nine teams received automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments and an additional three teams earned at-large bids based on their regular season records.[2]

Automatic qualifiers

Conference Champion Record
America East Stanford 10–2
ACC North Carolina 16–1
Atlantic 10 VCU 9–0
Big East UConn 11–1
Big Ten Michigan 13–2
CAA Delaware 6–3
MAC Miami (OH) 13–1
NEC Rider 6–1
Patriot Bucknell 5–3


At-large qualifiers

Team Conference Record
Iowa Big Ten 11–5
Louisville ACC 13–5
Northwestern Big Ten 11–5

Bracket

First round
April 30, 2021
Campus sites 		Quarterfinals
May 2, 2021
Campus sites 		Semifinals
May 7, 2021
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Karen Shelton Stadium 		Championship
May 9, 2021
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Karen Shelton Stadium
1 North Carolina 2
Miami (OH) 4 Stanford 0
Stanford 5 1 North Carolina 3
4 Iowa 0
2 Michigan 2
VCU 1 Bucknell 0
Bucknell 2 1 North Carolina 4
2 Michigan 3
3 Louisville 1
UConn 5 UConn 0
Rider 0 3 Louisville 1
2 Michigan 2
4 Iowa 3
Northwestern 4 Northwestern 1
Delaware 1

See also

References

  1. ^ "2019-22 NCAA Championship Sites". NCAA.com. Retrieved 2017-11-12.
  2. ^ "NCAA Division I Field Hockey Committee announces 2020 championship field". NCAA.com. April 24, 2021. Retrieved April 25, 2021.