Notre Dame Receives No. 2 National Seed, Will Serve As NCAA Tournament Host This Weekend
Irish to face Loyola (Chicago) on Friday at 7:00, with winner moving on to play the Michigan-vs.-Oakland winner on Sunday at 1:00.

Katie Thorlakson and the rest of the Irish hope to add to the program's 29-2 all-time record at home during postseason play.

Nov. 10, 2003

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The Notre Dame women's soccer team has received the No. 2 overall seed for the upcoming NCAA Championship and will serve as one of 16 hosts for first- and second-round games, to be held this weekend at Alumni Field.

Notre Dame (19-2-1) will face Loyola of Chicago in the second game at Alumni Field on Friday, Nov. 14 (7:00), with the earlier game featuring Michigan vs. Oakland (4:30). The winners then will advance to Sunday's second-round game at 1:00 p.m.

The winner of the second-round game at Notre Dame then will play a third-round game the following weekend (Nov. 21-23) versus the winner of games being hosted by 15th-seeded Boston College in Newton, Mass. (BC faces Central Connecticut while Boston University and UConn will meet in the other first-round games at that site).

The winner of the above third-round game then will head to the quarterfinals (Nov. 28-30), versus the team that emerges from games involving 7th-seeded Virginia and 10th-seeded Colorado.

Notre Dame opened 18-0-1 before dropping two of its last three games, versus Michigan (2-3) and Boston College (1-2).

(Check back to und.com for more on the Irish and the three teams that are heading for Alumni Field).

The top-16 seeds are as follows:

1 - North Carolina

2 - Notre Dame

3 - Florida

4 - UCLA

5 - Penn State

6 - West Virginia

7 - Virginia

8 - Portland

9 - Santa Clara