On the heel of the Cal Rugby win over St. Mary’s College on Saturday, the Golden Bears earned the top seed in the West of the announced 2019 D1A College Rugby postseason. After some controversy with a last minute national semifinal reshuffling of matchups to minimize on travel costs, this year’s D1A College Rugby postseason has a separate East vs. West bracket. After the folding of the Varsity Cup competition as a parallel collegiate rugby 15s national championship, Cal Rugby will be playing in the USA Rugby’s D1A national championship for the 2nd consecutive year.
With more and more schools having a rugby team, D1A Rugby postseason is starting to resemble other sports’ postseason with the introduction of regular season qualification for the post season in recent years.