INDIANAPOLIS-- The America East champion Boston University women's lacrosse team will meet up with Penn in the first round of the NCAA Championship as announced on Sunday night. It will be the third time in the last four years which the Terriers and Quakers will play each other in the postseason.
Game time is set for 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 15 at Immaculata University in Malvern, Pa., about 45 minutes outside of Philadelphia. The winner will advance to the quarterfinals to be played May 22 or 23 at campus sites.
The last time these two teams were paired up in the NCAA Tournament was the 2008 quarterfinals, where the Quakers prevailed, 8-5. Boston U. and Penn also met in the 2007 first round.
Penn (14-3 overall record), the eighth seed in the tournament, defeated Dartmouth last weekend in the first-ever Ivy League Women's Lacrosse Championship. It is the Quakers' fourth straight automatic berth, with the three previous trips all resulting in a Final Four appearance. The Quakers fell to eventual national champion Northwestern in a semifinal, double overtime match last year.
Boston U. (11-8) won its sixth straight America East Championship on Saturday, May 8 with an 11-10 win over UMBC. Junior midfielder Rachel Collins earned the tournament's Most Outstanding Player award with six draw controls, three ground balls and a caused turnover, while senior attackers McKinley Curro and Traci Landy combined for eight goals.