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2021 NCAA TOURNAMENT BRACKET
ROSEMONT, Ill. – The Big Ten Conference will have six schools participating in the 2021 NCAA Division I Women’s Soccer Championship, it was announced Monday afternoon. Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Rutgers and Wisconsin earned berths to this year’s 64-team NCAA Tournament, which kicks off Nov. 12-14 at campus sites around the country (exact dates and times to be announced in the coming days). The tournament culminates with the NCAA College Cup Dec. 3 and 5 at Stevens Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.
Rutgers earned a No. 1 seed and Michigan was a No. 2 seed for this year’s NCAA Tournament, marking the first time since 2015 that the Big Ten had a team on the top line of the bracket and two programs earn top-two seeds. That year, Penn State was a No. 1 seed and Rutgers was a No. 2 seed and both schools went on to reach the NCAA College Cup, with PSU winning not only its first national championship, but the first by a Big Ten school.
The six Big Ten teams selected for this year’s NCAA Tournament are the most for the conference since 2018, when it also had six schools chosen. With Monday’s announcement, the Big Ten has now had at least four of its current women’s soccer programs advance to the NCAA Tournament for 27 consecutive seasons.
Michigan (15-3-3) earned the Big Ten’s automatic qualifying berth into the NCAA Tournament by virtue of its 1-0 win at Rutgers in Sunday’s Big Ten Tournament title game. The Wolverines will be making their 15th NCAA Tournament appearance and second in the past three years. As a No. 2 national seed, Michigan open NCAA Tournament play by welcoming Bowling Green to town. With a victory, the Wolverines would remain at home to play Wake Forest or Harvard in the round of 32.
Ohio State (9-8-2) also will be making its 15th NCAA Tournament…
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