2021 NCAA Division I field hockey tournament

Football tournament season
2021 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship
Tournament details
CountryUnited States
Teams18
Final positions
ChampionsNorthwestern (1st title)
Runner-upLiberty (1st title match)
Tournament statistics
Matches played17
Goals scored58 (3.41 per match)
← 2020
2022 →

The 2021 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship was the 41st annual tournament organized by the NCAA, to determine the national champion of Division I women's college field hockey in the United States.

The semifinals and championship match were played at the Phyllis Ocker Field at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan on November 19 and 21, 2021.[1]

Maine made their debut appearance in the national championship tournament.

Northwestern won their first NCAA title, and the school's ninth national title across all sports. During the tournament, they faced three-time defending national champion North Carolina, #2 seed Iowa, top scoring defense Harvard, and top scoring offense Liberty.

Qualified teams

  • A total of 18 teams qualified for the 2021 tournament, a return to the pre-COVID pandemic format from 2019. 10 teams received automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments and an additional 8 teams earned at-large bids based on their regular season records.

Automatic qualifiers

Conference Champion Record Appearance Last
America East Maine 15-6 1st
ACC North Carolina 13-6 38th 2020
Atlantic 10 Saint Joseph's 16-4 4th 2019
Big East Liberty 17-2 3rd 2014
Big Ten Rutgers 18-3 4th 2018
CAA Delaware 12-8 12th 2020
Ivy Harvard 15-1 7th 2018
Mid-American Miami (OH) 11-10 6th 2020
Northeast Fairfield 14-7 5th 2019
Patriot American 13-3 11th 2016


At-large qualifiers

Team Conference Record Appearance Last
Iowa Big Ten 16-2 26th 2020
Louisville ACC 16-3 9th 2020
Maryland Big Ten 13-6 33rd 2019
Michigan Big Ten 15-4 18th 2020
Northwestern Big Ten 14-5 17th 2020
Penn State Big Ten 14-5 34th 2018
Syracuse ACC 13-5 15th 2019
Virginia ACC 12-8 25th 2019

Bracket

Opening round
November 10, 2021
Campus sites
First round
November 12, 2021
Campus sites
Second round
November 14, 2021
Campus sites
Semifinals
November 19, 2021
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Phyllis Ocker Field
Championship
November 21, 2021
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Phyllis Ocker Field
               
1 Rutgers 2
Delaware 1
Fairfield 3
Delaware 4
1 Rutgers 2
Liberty 3
Liberty 2
Saint Joseph's 0
Liberty 3
Maryland 2
Maryland 2
Virginia 1
Maryland 2
Syracuse 1
4 Penn State 1
Syracuse 4
Liberty 0
Northwestern 2
3 Michigan 3
Miami (OH) 2
Maine 2
Miami (OH) 3
3 Michigan 0
Harvard 1
Louisville 0
Harvard 1
Harvard 1
Northwestern 2
Northwestern 2
North Carolina 0
Northwestern 1
2 Iowa 0
American 2
2 Iowa 3

See also

References

  1. ^ "2019-22 NCAA Championship Sites". NCAA.com. Retrieved 2017-11-12.