#8 W Lacrosse earns first-ever NCAA Tournament bid, will host Friday night
Despite a 19-9 loss to eventual-champion Northwestern in the B1G Tournament Friday night, #8 Michigan's resume was impressive enough to earn themselves a national seed.
In the first NCAA Tournament in program history, Michigan is the national 8 seed and will host a First Round game on Friday night at U-M Lacrosse Stadium.
8 Michigan (15-3) will host the winner of Jacksonville/Mercer (which will also be hosted by U-M) on Friday in the NCAA Tournament First Round.
Michigan has had a historic season in every single way. Wins over top-10 teams, going undefeated at home, top-10 rankings.
Second year head coach Hannah Nielsen is already the winningest coach in program history with a record of 22-13 (6-6 B1G) in 2 seasons. Her predecessor Jennifer Ulehla was 20-49 (1-21 conference record) in 4 years.
It's been a complete culture change. Some players were seen crying after Friday night's loss in the B1G Tournament.
A few years ago even qualifying for the B1G Tournament was a dream. In 2019, this team was an NCAA Tournament lock mid-season.
Super pumped to show up for some Lacrosse Friday night, really hope a good crowd greets the team, they deserve it. Interested to see what game times are, especially Sunday. Hoping for an afternoon game before Mother’s Day dinner...
Go Blue!
Well deserved Go Blue!!
WHAT A TURNAROUND!
Amazing season! Keep it going!
GO BLUE!!!
What makes this even better is that Michigan was not supposed to get home-field advantage.
Notre Dame was supposed to get home-field advantage and most thought they had the better resume than Michigan (ND's best win is @ #6 Virginia, Michigan's is @ #13 Denver).
But what matters now is winning the games in front of you. And USC will not be easy to take down. What stinks about the bracket is that if Michigan gets through to the quarterfinals, we have to face #1 Maryland. Again.
But first, let's win on Friday!
Amazing season, and congrats to them.
Congrats ladies.
Game times announced: UM/Play-In Game winner at 4pm Friday, USC/Denver at 7.
Winners play Sunday at noon.
Why the Michigan game is during work and the USC/Denver game is in primetime is beyond me. I guess it could be centrally controlled by the NCAA for TV reasons but if the athletic dept has any control then that seems like a very poor decision.
Well, looking at it from a coach's perspective, I'd rather have the first game of a double-header like this, so that I can scout the competition in the second game.
That actually does make a lot of sense.