2018 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament

2018 NCAA Women's Soccer Tournament
	Women's College Cup (Semifinals & Final)
Country	United States
Dates	November 9 – December 2, 2018
Teams	64
Champions	Florida State (2nd title)
Runners-up	North Carolina
Semi-finalists	Stanford; Georgetown;
Matches played	63
Goals scored	190 (3.02 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Dani Rhodes - Wisconsin (5 goals)
	← 2017 2019 → All statistics correct as of 11/8/2018.

The 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament (also known as the 2018 Women's College Cup) was the 37th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division I women's collegiate soccer. The semifinals and championship game were played at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina from November 30 – December 2, 2018 while the preceding rounds were played at various sites across the country during November 2018.[1]

Qualification

All Division I women's soccer programs were eligible to qualify for the tournament. 28 teams received automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments, 3 teams received automatic bids by claiming the conference regular season crown (Ivy League, Pac-12 Conference, and West Coast Conference don't hold conference tournaments), and an additional 33 teams earned at-large bids based on their regular season records.

Stanford Bracket

Seed	School	Conference	Berth Type	Record[2]	RPI[3]	Appearance[4]	Last bid[4]
1	Stanford	Pac-12	Automatic	17–0–2	1	28th	2017
2	Tennessee	SEC	At-Large	13–2–3	9	12th	2017
3	Texas A&M	SEC	At-Large	15–4–1	10	24th	2017
4	Boston College	ACC	At-Large	14–4–1	10	19th	2015
	Arizona	Pac-12	At-Large	12–5–2	29	6th	2017
	BYU	West Coast	Automatic	13–4–1	42	19th	2016
	Clemson	ACC	At-Large	12–8–0	46	19th	2017
	Denver	Summit League	Automatic	13–5–2	85	11th	2017
	Hofstra	Colonial Athletic	Automatic	15–5–1	63	7th	2017
	Louisville	ACC	At-Large	12–6–0	52	5th	2013
	Memphis	American Athletic	Automatic	17–3–0	14	7th	2016
	North Texas	Conference USA	Automatic	15–2–3	33	6th	2017
	Ole Miss	SEC	At-Large	12–7–1	39	8th	2017
	Seattle	WAC	Automatic	10–7–3	152	4th	2016
	TCU	Big 12	At-Large	12–4–3	19	3rd	2017
	Wisconsin	Big Ten	At-Large	12–3–4	36	20th	2017

Georgetown Bracket

Seed	School	Conference	Berth Type	Record[2]	RPI[3]	Appearance[4]	Last bid[4]
1	Georgetown	Big East	Automatic	17–0–3	4	9th	2017
2	Baylor	Big 12	At-Large	17–5–0	5	6th	2017
3	Virginia	ACC	At-Large	15–4–0	15	31st	2017
4	Duke	ACC	At-Large	14–3–2	11	24th	2017
	Abilene Christian	Southland	Automatic	15–5–1	67	1st[5]	Never
	Central Connecticut State	Northeast	Automatic	16–1–2	98	8th	2014
	Lipscomb	ASUN	Automatic	14–4–2	76	1st[6]	Never
	Mississippi State	SEC	At-Large	9–6–2	17	1st[7]	Never
	Monmouth	MAAC	Automatic	16–3–1	53	6th	2017
	Montana	Big Sky	Automatic	7–8–6	166	4th	2011
	Murray State	Ohio Valley	Automatic	13–4–1	64	4th	2017
	Princeton	Ivy	Automatic	11–3–2	24	13th	2017
	Rutgers	Big Ten	At-Large	11–3–5	30	13th	2017
	Texas Tech	Big 12	At-Large	13–5–2	34	6th	2016
	Vanderbilt	SEC	At-Large	15–3–1	21	9th	2017
	Washington State	Pac-12	At-Large	12–5–1	32	12th	2017

North Carolina Bracket

Seed	School	Conference	Berth Type	Record[2]	RPI[3]	Appearance[4]	Last bid[4]
1	North Carolina	ACC	At-Large	17–3–1	3	37th	2017
2	UCLA	Pac-12	At-Large	14–3–1	7	22nd	2017
3	Santa Clara	West Coast	At-Large	16–3–1	12	28th	2017
4	Texas	Big 12	At-Large	13–4–3	13	13th	2017
	Arkansas	SEC	At-Large	13–4–4	26	5th	2017
	Auburn	SEC	At-Large	12–5–2	28	16th	2017
	Howard	SWAC	Automatic	12–6–2	237	2nd	2015
	Kansas	Big 12	At Large	11–5–3	23	8th	2016
	Little Rock	Sun Belt	Automatic	13–4–4	117	1st[8]	Never
	Milwaukee	Horizon	Automatic	16–1–1	89	12th	2013
	Minnesota	Big Ten	Automatic	11–8–2	44	11th	2016
	NC State	ACC	At-Large	10–6–3	20	14th	2017
	Northwestern	Big Ten	At-Large	10–4–4	47	6th	2017
	San Jose State	Mountain West	Automatic	9–6–6	128	3rd	2017
	Saint Louis	Atlantic 10	Automatic	18–3–1	41	3rd	2006
	Virginia Tech	ACC	At-Large	9–7–3	43	10th	2015

Florida State Bracket

Seed	School	Conference	Berth Type	Record[2]	RPI[3]	Appearance[4]	Last bid[4]
1	Florida State	ACC	Automatic	15–4–2	2	19th	2017
2	West Virginia	Big 12	Automatic	14–4–3	6	19th	2017
3	South Carolina	SEC	At-Large	13–5–1	18	12th	2017
4	USC	Pac-12	At-Large	15–2–2	8	17th	2017
	Albany	America East	Automatic	14–6–2	96	3rd	2016
	Boston	Patriot	Automatic	11–7–3	90	14th	2015
	Bowling Green	Mid-American	Automatic	14–4–3	75	3rd	2005
	LSU	SEC	Automatic	13–6–3	27	6th	2015
	Long Beach State	Big West	Automatic	12–5–3	37	6th	2016
	Loyola (Chicago)	Missouri Valley	Automatic	11–6–1	114	4th	2007
	Ohio State	Big Ten	At-Large	9–5–4	40	13th	2017
	Penn State	Big Ten	At-Large	15–5–1	22	24th	2017
	Radford	Big South	Automatic	16–2–1	59	7th	2012
	UNCG	Southern	Automatic	15–4–1	73	11th	2017
	South Florida	American Athletic	At-Large	14–3–0	16	5th	2017
	Wake Forest	ACC	At-Large	8–8–1	31	20th	2017

Bracket

The bracket was announced on Monday, November 5, 2018[1]

Stanford Section

First Round November 9–10 Campus Sites			Second Round November 16 Regional Campus Sites			Round of 16 November 18 Regional Campus Sites			Quarterfinal November 23 Campus Sites


1	Stanford*	3

	Seattle	0
			1	Stanford*	4

				Ole Miss	1
	Clemson*	1

	Ole Miss	2
						1	Stanford*	1

							Wisconsin	0
	Memphis*	0

	Wisconsin	3
				Wisconsin*	6

				Hofstra	0
	Hofstra	4

4	Boston College*	1
									1	Stanford*	2

									2	Tennessee	0
3	Texas A&M (a.e.t.)*	1

	North Texas	0
			3	Texas A&M*	2

				TCU	0
	TCU*	2

	BYU	1
						3	Texas A&M	0

						2	Tennessee*	3
	Arizona*	3

	Denver	0
				Arizona	2

			2	Tennessee*	3
	Louisville	1

2	Tennessee*	2

* Host institution

Schedule

First round

November 9, 2018	#10 Tennessee	2–1	Louisville	Knoxville, Tennessee
5:00 p.m.	Shaw 74', 85'	Report	Emina Ekic 19'	Stadium: Regal Soccer Stadium Attendance: 750 Referee: Mark Buda

November 9, 2018	#25 Clemson	1–2	Ole Miss	Clemson, South Carolina
6:00 p.m.	Miranda Weslake 45'	Report	Mary Kate Smith 23' Grace Johnson 54'	Stadium: Riggs Field Attendance: 431 Referee: Lance Van Haitsma

November 9, 2018	#22 Boston College	1–4	Hofstra	Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
7:00 p.m.	Olivia Vaughn 76'	Report	Lucy Porter 24' Sabrina Bryan 70', 74' Lucy Shepherd 82'	Stadium: Newton Soccer Complex Attendance: 222 Referee: Noel Cotterwell

November 9, 2018	#15 Memphis	0–3	#23 Wisconsin	Memphis, Tennessee
8:00 p.m.		Report	Cameron Murtha 26' Dani Rhodes 55' Grace Douglas 55' Maia Cella 61'	Stadium: Mike Rose Soccer Complex Attendance: 903 Referee: Elvis Mahmutovic

November 9, 2018	#16 Texas A&M	1–0 (a.e.t.)	North Texas	College Station, Texas
8:00 p.m.	Ally Watt 96' Ally Watt 108'	Report	Dominique James 25' Carissa Sanders 96'	Stadium: Ellis Field Attendance: 1,668 Referee: Leszek Stalmach

November 9, 2018	TCU	2–1	#24 BYU	Fort Worth, Texas
8:00 p.m.	Messiah Bright 55' Yazmeen Ryan 60' 72'	Report	Elise Flake 22' Rachel Lyman 72'	Stadium: Garvey-Rosenthal Soccer Stadium Attendance: 972 Referee: Ramon Bermudez

November 9, 2018	Arizona	3–0	Denver	Tucson, Arizona
9:00 p.m.	Kennedy Kieneker 52' Amanda Porter 57' Kelcey Cavarra 73' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Mulcahy Soccer Stadium Attendance: 1,015 Referee: Randi Hoffman

November 10, 2018	#1 Stanford	3–0	Seattle	Stanford, California
10:00 p.m.	Civana Kuhlmann 17' Seattle Own Goal 51' (o.g.) Carly Malatskey 89'	Report		Stadium: Laird Q. Cagan Stadium Attendance: 1,300 Referee: Alex Del Angel

Second round

November 16, 2018	#16 Texas A&M	2–0	TCU	Knoxville, Tennessee
2:00 p.m.	Ally Watt 51' Addie McCain 75'	Report		Stadium: Regal Soccer Stadium Referee: Tori Penso

November 16, 2018	#10 Tennessee	3–2	Arizona	Knoxville, Tennessee
5:00 p.m.	Salera Jordan 34' Danielle Marcano 45', 89'	Report	Team 20' Samantha Falasco 77' Kennedy Kieneker 79'	Stadium: Regal Soccer Stadium Attendance: 650 Referee: Chris Penso

November 16, 2018	#23 Wisconsin	6–0	Hofstra	Stanford, California
7:35 p.m.	Alexis Tye 1' Dani Rhodes 22', 53', 68', 69' Cameron Murtha 55'	Report		Stadium: Laird Q. Cagan Stadium Attendance: 264 Referee: Turan Ozdemir

November 16, 2018	#1 Stanford	4–1	Ole Miss	Stanford, California
10:05 p.m.	Catarina Macario 12' Naomi Girma 48', 64' Civana Kuhlmann 78'	Report	Sophie Dineen 43'	Stadium: Laird Q. Cagan Stadium Attendance: 421 Referee: Frank Anderson

Round of 16

November 18, 2018	#1 Stanford	1–0	#23 Wisconsin	Stanford, California
4:35 p.m.	Jordan DiBiasi 36' Catarina Macario 86' Sam Hiatt 88'	Report	Victoria Pickett 8'	Stadium: Laird Q. Cagan Stadium Attendance: 1,305 Referee: Matthew Buckman

November 18, 2018	#16 Texas A&M	0–3	#10 Tennessee	Knoxville, Tennessee
5:00 p.m.		Report	Danielle Marcano 2', 46' 86' Salera Jordan 67'	Stadium: Regal Soccer Stadium Attendance: 718 Referee: Kevin Terry

Quarterfinals

November 23, 2018	#1 Stanford	2–0	#10 Tennessee	Stanford, California
5:00 p.m.	Civana Kuhlmann 26' Catarina Macario 58'	Report	Ma Vignola 35'	Stadium: Laird Q. Cagan Stadium Attendance: 1,596 Referee: Alex Del Angel

Rankings from United Soccer Coaches Final Regular Season Rankings