On Sunday, May 7, the selections for the 2017 NCAA Women's Lacrosse Tournament will finally be revealed. The women's tournament has 26 teams in all; 13 automatic qualifiers and 13 at-large, with eight seeds that host the first and second rounds. This article will attempt to project what the field will look like, so let's just dive right in.
Two teams have punched their ticket with conference final victories this past Sunday: North Carolina (ACC) and USC (Mountain Pacific Sports Federation; MPSF).
Projected AQ teams are:
ACC: North Carolina already has AQ
MPSF: USC already has AQ
America East: Stony Brook
*Atlantic 10: UMass
*Atlantic Sun: Jacksonville or Coastal Carolina (loser stays home)
Big East: Florida
*Big South: High Point
Big Ten: Maryland
Colonial: James Madison, but Towson/Elon/Delaware could get in as well.