INDIANAPOLIS – The Gettysburg College women's basketball team will battle Albright College in the opening round of the NCAA Division III Championship hosted by Montclair State University this Friday, March 2, at 5 p.m.
Gettysburg (25-2) will be making its sixth trip to the national playoffs and first since 2013. The Bullets received an automatic bid after winning the Centennial Conference championship this past weekend inside Bream Gym.
The Orange and Blue will face an Albright (20-7) squad that made the finals of the Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth Tournament before falling to No. 12 Messiah College. Albright owns two wins over NCAA qualifiers, defeating then No. 1 Tufts University (62-59) as well as beating Messiah (63-54) during the regular season.
Gettysburg owns a 15-9 advantage in the all-time series with Albright, but this will be the programs' first meeting since 2005.
The winner between the Bullets and Lions will draw the victor between host and 16th-ranked Montclair State University (23-3) and Skyline Conference champion SUNY Old Westbury (23-3), which meet at 7 p.m. on Friday night. The second round will take place Saturday at a time to be determined.
HAVERFORD, Pa. – The Haverford College women's basketball team will continue its exhilarating 2017-18 season in the NCAA tournament. Haverford learned on Monday afternoon that it will head to the Ashland, Va. campus of Randolph-Macon College to face off with Christopher Newport (23-4) in the first round of the 2018 NCAA Division III tournament. The meeting will be the first between the two squads.
Haverford (21-6) earns an at-large selection after falling to Gettysburg in the Centennial Conference Championship game on Saturday night by a final score of 44-35.
The Fords will be making their second trip to the NCAA tournament after reaching the second round during the 2013-14 campaign. Haverford traveled to Ithaca College for the first and second round contests that season, besting Rhode Island College in the first round before falling to the host Bombers in second round action.
Christopher Newport enters the contest as the ODAC runner-up after dropping a thrilling championship game to Marymount (Va). The Captains will be making their 19th tournament appearance and the fifth in the last five years. Christopher Newport advanced to the Final Four as season ago.
Host Randolph-Macon will face off with Valley Forge in the other game in the regional. Randolph-Macon is one of 16 schools hosting a regional in the upcoming weekend. The winner of each regional will advance to Sectionals on March 9-10.