COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- The top-seeded Maryland men's soccer team will open NCAA Tournament play at Ludwig Field on Tuesday, Nov. 22, at 7 p.m. against Brown. The Terps and Bears are meeting for the first time on the soccer pitch.

GameTracker (www.umterps.com) will be available for Tuesday's game and live audio will be broadcast on wmucsports.com.

The Terrapins (15-4-1) enter the tournament as the overall No. 1 seed. Maryland will play at Ludwig Field for as long as it advances until the College Cup in Cary, N.C.

The Terps are seeking their fourth consecutive trip to the national semifinals and their first NCAA title since 1968.

Over the past three seasons, Maryland is 8-0-1 at home in the NCAA Tournament. The tie came last season against Creighton and the Terps managed to advance on penalty kicks.

In their last outing, the Terps fell to eventual champion Duke, 4-2, in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament. The Blue Devils went on to out-last the Tar Heels in penalty kicks, 5-4.

Brown advanced out of the first round with a 2-1 overtime win over Rhode Island. The Bears were an at-large selection out of the Ivy League. The ACC is 1-1-0 this year against the Ivy League.

The winner of Tuesday's game will advance to play the winner of St. John's-Dartmouth.

More NCAA Tournament Notes
• Maryland is making its 25th appearance in the NCAA Tournament. The Terps are 28-23-3 all-time in the NCAA Tournament. Maryland shared the 1968 national title with Michigan State.
• Sasho Cirovski is making his 11th trip to the NCAA Tournament in 13 seasons as head coach of the Terrapins. Cirovski is 16-10-1 in the NCAA Tournament at Maryland and has led the Terrapins to four College Cup appearances (1998, 2002-04).
• The Terps have seven players that have started in the NCAA Tournament. Combined, the group has 51 NCAA Tournament starts. Defender Chris Lancos has started every NCAA Tournament game Maryland has played since 2002 (12 starts).
• Maryland has faced 10 of the 48 tournament teams this season. The Terps are 8-4-1 against those teams (Maryland played Duke and Wake Forest twice).
• The Terrapins are one of a record eight teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference in the NCAA Tournament. Maryland won the ACC regular season title with a record of 7-1 in the league.

Quick Kicks
• The Terps had an 11-game unbeaten streak snapped in the ACC Tournament by Duke. It was the first time this season Maryland was defeated when scoring a goal and the first time they lost when Jason Garey scored a goal.
• All four of Maryland's losses (and the one tie) this season have come to teams in this year's NCAA Tournament. None of those teams are in Maryland's quarter of the bracket. The Terps have not faced any of the teams in their quarter of the bracket this season. (Maryland did play Akron, the tournament's eighth seed, in the preseason.)
• Maryland has gone to penalty kicks twice in NCAA Tournament history. The Terps won the last time, edging Creighton 5-4 in 2004, but lost the other in 1995 to James Madison, 4-3.
• The Terps' scoring average of 2.80 goals per game is second in the country.
• Maryland's 56 goals this season rank tied for third all-time in school history. The Terps set the record for goals in a season last year with 62.

Tough Slate
• According to the most recent NSCAA poll, a season-high 12 Maryland Terrapin opponents are ranked among the nation's top 25. Also, five Maryland opponents are currently ranked in the Top 10 and seven ACC teams are ranked in the top 25.
• The Terp schedule also included 10 opponents that were selected for the 2005 NCAA Tournament, including 2004 College Cup qualifiers Indiana and Duke.
• Maryland is 8-2-1 against ranked opponents this season, and are 8-1-1 in its last 10 games against ranked opponents.

Brown At A Glance
• Brown comes to College Park with an 11-4-2 record on the year. The Bears advanced past Rhode Island, 2-1, in overtime on Saturday to advance to the second round.
• Brown finished shared the Ivy League title with Dartmouth.
• Ten players have scored goals this season for the Bears, led by Ben Brackett and Andrew Daniels' six goals apiece.
• Scott Geppert and Brian Joyce pace the team with six assists each. Geppert is the Ivy League's Rookie of the Year for 2005.
• The Bears have allowed only 13 goals on the year. David Semenza has 10 starts on the year but freshman Jarrett Leech earned the start and the victory in the first round game against Rhode Island. Leetch has a goals-against average of just 0.39 (three goals in nearly 700 minutes played).
• Brown has made it to the NCAA Tournament in three of the las six years. In 2000, the Bears advanced to the Elite Eight before being eliminated by eventual champion Connecticut.

Start Me Up
• The Terps are 14-0-1 this season when scoring the game's first goal. Maryland is outscoring opponents 27-9 in the first half this season.
• In all four of Maryland's losses, not only have the Terps not gotten a lead, they have given up a goal in the game's first 15 minutes.

Fantastic Four Years
• Maryland's 72 victories since 2002 are the most in a four-year span at Maryland. In that time Maryland's record is 72-18-4 -- a winning percentage of .800.
• The success extends beyond victories as the Terrapins have advanced to the national semifinals and played in the ACC Tournament finals in three out of four seasons.

Feast Or Famine
• In three of Maryland's four losses, the Terps have been shut out. In the Terrapin wins, though, Maryland is averaging over three goals a game (3.37).

Home Sweet Home
• The Terps have had remarkable success at Ludwig Field posting a 45-3-2 (.928) record in three plus seasons, including a perfect 13-0 mark in 2002 and 9-0-1 record this season.
• That record also includes an 8-0-1 mark during the NCA A Tournament which has helped Maryland reach three straight College Cups. (The Terps advanced on penalty kicks, 5-4, after tying Creighton in the third round of the NCAA Tournament.)
• Maryland won 23 straight games at home between 2002-03, the fourth-longest streak in NCAA history.
• Maryland is 9-0-1 this season and is unbeaten in its last 16 games at Ludwig Field (dating back to last season).
• A Ludwig Field record of 6,203 fans came to watch the Terps play Indiana on Oct. 29, 2005.
• For the first time since the Terps started playing at Ludwig Field in 1995, Maryland averaged over 2,000 fans per game during the 2004 season. Maryland is again averaging over 2,000 fans per game this season (2,250).
• Maryland's loyal student fan base perched behind the goals is known as "The Crew."