Nov. 8, 2004
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The Notre Dame women’s soccer team has received the No. 4 national 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 (19-1-1) will face Eastern Illinois on Friday, Nov. 12 (7:30 EST), with the earlier game featuring Wisconsin versus Dayton (5:00). The winners then will advance to Sunday’s second-round game at 1:00 p.m. Tickets are $7 for adults and $3 for children, students and senior citizens.
The winner of the second-round game at Notre Dame then will play a third-round game the following weekend (Nov. 19-21) versus the winner of games being hosted by the University of Connecticut (the top seed at that site is 13th-seed Arizona, which will face Colgate, while UConn and Harvard will meet in the other first-round game at Morrone Stadium).
The winner of the above third-round game then will head to the quarterfinals (Nov. 26-28), versus the team that emerges from games involving 5th-seeded Portland and 12th-seeded Texas.
(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 – Penn State
3 – Virginia
4 – Notre Dame
5 – Portland
6 – Ohio State
7 – Princeton
8 – Kansas
9 – Texas A&M
10 – Florida
11 – Tennessee
12 – Texas
13 – Arizona (games at UConn)
14 – UCLA
15 – Washington (games at Auburn)
16 – Santa Clara