UM Women’s Tennis Team Advances to Indoor National Championship

Submitted by UM Reject on February 11th, 2024 at 6:14 PM

https://wearecollegetennis.com/championships/ita-d1-womens-indoor-champs/

The ladies advanced to the ITA Indoor National Championship. They will play the winner of Oklahoma State/Stanford tomorrow at 12:00 PM PST. 
 

The Wolverines started the 16-team tournament as the #4 seed. They defeated California, Virginia, and NCST to reach the finals. 

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6th Blagdon

February 12th, 2024 at 8:08 AM ^

So should they win, is this actually considered a National Championship?  I know it says it in the name but when you look up NCAA Women's National Champion teams they list the winners of the 64 team tournament that goes on in the Spring.  I know Track has indoor and outdoor National Titles but I haven't seen the same for tennis.

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Alton

February 12th, 2024 at 9:24 AM ^

That's a complicated question. It's a National Championship (the "ITA Division I National Women's Team Indoor Championship") but it's not an NCAA Championship.  As you correctly point out, the NCAA Championship is conducted in May. Winning this will get you no Directors Cup points and won't have a cool "NCAA Champion" trophy to go with it.

On the other hand, this is much more than an invitational tournament--there are no teams offered a spot in the tournament who declined to participate, and all of the top 15 are offered a spot (along with host Washington). The winner of the tournament will almost certainly have an inside track to the #1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament in May.

Yes, track and field is the only sport with separate NCAA championships for indoor and outdoor.

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