University of North Carolina Athletics
UNC Awarded #9 Seed For NCAA Championship
November 14, 2016 | Men's Soccer
Carolina will open its 24th NCAA postseason appearance against the winner of Thursday's first-round match between USF and Florida Gulf Coast.
Tickets are available for purchase at GoHeels.com, and are $10 for adults and $5 for students and seniors, and $3 for groups.
UNC and USF are tied 3-3-1 in the all-time series between the two programs. The last matchup with the Bulls was a 1-0 Tar Heel victory in the 2013 NCAA Championship first round. UNC has never faced FGCU.
Carolina is a top-16 national seed for the seventh time in the last nine years, and will be making its 17th postseason appearance in the last 18 seasons. The Tar Heels have hosted one postseason match at Fetzer Field every year since 2000.
UNC, 34-19-7 in NCAA Championship action, has won the national title in 2001 and 2011, appeared in six College Cups - including four straight from 2008-2011 - and made 10 trips to the NCAA quarterfinals, most recently in 2014.
Other national seeds in UNC's quarter of the postseason bracket include #1 Maryland, #8 Syracuse and #16 Kentucky.
Carolina is 11-3-3 this season, winning the ACC Coastal Division with a 5-1-2 conference mark, and earned the top seed in the ACC Championship. The Tar Heels placed a league high six players on the postseason All-ACC teams, led by ACC Freshman of the Year Cam Lindley, the only freshman listed on the All-ACC first team.
The second team consisted of senior defender Colton Storm and junior forwards Alan Winn and Zach Wright, the clubs leading scorer with five goals and six assists. Senior defender Walker Hume and sophomore keeper James Pyle earned a place on the All-ACC third team, and Mauricio Pineda joined Lindley on the All-Freshman Team.
North Carolina is one of an NCAA record nine ACC clubs in the 48-team field - Wake Forest (2), Clemson (3), Louisville (4), Syracuse (8), North Carolina (9), Virginia (12) and Notre Dame (13) all earned national seeds. Boston College and Virginia Tech earned at-large bids and will play first round games on Thursday.
