University of North Carolina Athletics
Tar Heels Earn No. 2 Seed In NCAA Tournament
May 4, 2015 | Women's Lacrosse
CHAPEL HILL - Atlantic Coast Conference regular season champion North Carolina is the No. 2 seed in the 2015 NCAA women's lacrosse tournament and will host a second-round game against either Stanford or Florida on Sunday May 10 at 1 p.m. in Chapel Hill.
Florida and Stanford will meet in a first-round game at Fetzer Field in Chapel Hill on Friday at 5 p.m., and the winner will advance to face the Tar Heels on Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. The winner of that second-round game on Sunday will move on to face either No. 7 seed Virginia or unseeded Penn State or Johns Hopkins the following weekend.
"We're excited to enter a new phase of our season in the NCAA Tournament this week," UNC head coach Jenny Levy said on Sunday night. "As the regular season champion of the toughest conference in the country, I think we earned the second seed. We hope the challenging schedule we played throughout the season will be good preparation for what lies ahead.
"We certainly have a great deal of respect for both Stanford and Florida and the kind of seasons they've had this year. Whoever we play on Sunday, we'll need to be ready to play as well as we've played all season."
The Tar Heels earn an NCAA Tournament bid for the 11th year in a row and the 17th time overall. Levy's 22 NCAA Tournament wins rank fourth in NCAA history.
Tickets will be $5 for adults and $3 for students and seniors. Advance tickets will be on sale at the GoHeels.com Ticket Center. The UNC men will host Colgate in an NCAA Tournament game on Sunday at 5:15 p.m. at Fetzer Field.
Five of the top eight NCAA seeds are Atlantic Coast Conference teams. Maryland is the No. 1 overall seed, followed by No. 2 seed Carolina and No. 3 seed Duke. Syracuse is the No. 4 seed, Boston College is No. 5, Stony Brook is No. 6, Virginia is No. 7 and Northwestern is No. 8. ACC schools Louisville and Notre Dame made the field as unseeded teams.
UNC is a top-five seed for the seventh year in a row. Carolina is making its 17th NCAA Tournament appearance in 20 years as a varsity program. The Tar Heels are 22-15 in NCAA Tournament games and have made seven semifinal appearances (1997, 1998, 2002, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013), including four in the last six years. The Tar Heels won their first national title in 2013 with a triple-overtime win over Maryland.
The 2015 NCAA semifinals and national championship game will be played on May 22 and 24 at PPL Park in Philadelphia, Pa.
