Terps to Host NCAA First and Second Rounds
11/6/2016 12:00:00 AM | Field Hockey
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The Maryland field hockey team earned the No. 2 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament Sunday night and will host the NCAA First and Second Rounds Saturday and Sunday at the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex.
The Terrapins (17-4) will play either Monmouth (17-2) or Massachusetts (13-7) Saturday at 11:30 a.m. Monmouth and Massachusetts will meet in a play-in game Wednesday at Monmouth. North Carolina (17-5) will take on Stanford (13-6) Saturday at 2 p.m. Saturday's winners will advance to play Sunday in the NCAA Second Round.
For the full NCAA bracket, click here. Parking and ticket information will be available on umterps.com Monday.
Maryland football will host Ohio State Saturday, Nov. 12 at 3:30 p.m. Due to traffic and parking for the football game, field hockey fans are strongly encouraged to prepay for parking in the Terrapin Trail Garage ($17) - which is approximately a 1/2 mile away from the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex. Fans can prepay parking here. If the parking lots sell out in advance of Nov. 12, a free shuttle will take fans from the College Park Metro parking garage to the University. The link about the garage can be found online here.
Parking will be free and open in all of the lots around the Complex for Sunday's Second Round game.
Tickets are now on sale through the Terrapin Ticket Office at 1-800-IM-A-TERP or online here. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for youth, seniors and students.
This marks Maryland's 28th NCAA Tourmament appearance and 22nd straight, which is the longest active streak in the nation. Maryland is 56-20 (.737) in the NCAA Tournament, the most wins of any school in Tournament history.
In the 29 years under head coach Missy Meharg, the Terrapins have made 27 NCAA Tournament appearances. She's helped the Terps to eight NCAA championships, including seven as head coach, and 16 Final Fours.
The Terrapins fell to No. 6 Penn State, 2-1, Sunday in the Big Ten Championship game at the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex. The Terrapins led at half, but a second half surge by the Nittany Lions (17-2) was the difference.
Welma Luus was named Big Ten Player of the Year and Grace Balsdon was named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year the league announced Wednesday.
Both were named to the All-Big Ten First Team, as voted by the league's nine head coaches. Junior Lein Holsboer was voted to the All-Big Ten Second Team. With Luus' and Balsdon's honors this year, 15 Terrapins in program history have earned 20 conference Player of the Year awards.
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