{"id":42496,"date":"2012-03-04T20:44:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T02:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=42496"},"modified":"2012-03-04T20:44:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T02:44:11","slug":"field-set-for-womens-d-i-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2012\/03\/04\/field-set-for-womens-d-i-national-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Field set for women’s D-I national championship"},"content":{"rendered":"
Defending Division I women’s national champion and top-seeded Wisconsin will open up defense of its crown on March 10 as the Badgers will battle CHA tournament runner-up Mercyhurst in the NCAA tournament quarterfinals on home ice.<\/p>\n
Boston College hosts St. Lawrence, Minnesota hosts North Dakota and Cornell and Boston University will play at Cornell to make up the rest of the field.<\/p>\n
Three conferences were awarded automatic bids for the 2012 tournament. The remaining five teams were selected at-large.<\/p>\n
The automatic qualifying conferences and their representatives are Minnesota (WCHA), St. Lawrence (ECAC) and BU (Hockey East). Boston College, Mercyhurst, North Dakota, St. Lawrence and Wisconsin were selected as at-large teams.<\/p>\n
The quarterfinals are scheduled for March 10, the semifinals on March 16 and the national title game for March 18 in Duluth, Minn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Defending Division I women’s national champion and top-seeded Wisconsin will open up defense of its crown on March 10 as the Badgers will battle CHA tournament runner-up Mercyhurst in the NCAA tournament quarterfinals on home ice. Boston College hosts St. Lawrence, Minnesota hosts North Dakota and Cornell and Boston University will play at Cornell to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n