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Women's Soccer
Notre Dame Receives No. 2 National Seed, Will Serve As NCAA Tournament Host This Weekend
Nov. 10, 2003
Tournament Bracket in PDF Format
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 10 - Colorado 11 - Florida State 12 - Duke 13 - Kansas 14 - Tennessee 15 - Boston College
16 - Illinois
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