The USA’s greatest collegiate ladies’s soccer groups will start to face off in opposition to each other with eyes on profitable the 2024 NCAA DI Ladies’s Soccer Championship, which kicks off on Friday with first-round matchups.

Reigning champions Florida State are one in every of a number of groups in motion on Friday, dealing with Samford of their first-round conflict. North Carolina, the match’s most profitable crew with 22 titles, additionally start play on Friday in opposition to USC Upstate, whereas first-round matches will proceed via the weekend.

The match will function a showcase for the very best expertise within the faculty recreation, a lot of whom purpose on changing into professionals. The abolition of the NWSL’s faculty draft means a few of the NCAA’s greatest gamers won’t have to attend till January to seek out their subsequent touchdown spot, ought to they select the skilled route. That features the San Diego Wave’s Trinity Byers, a U.S. youth worldwide who turned the primary collegiate athlete to affix an NWSL membership within the league’s post-draft panorama. She performed 4 seasons of collegiate soccer at Texas, however won’t participate on this yr’s championship after a season-ending knee damage.

Here is what it’s essential to find out about this yr’s NCAA DI Ladies’s Soccer Championship.

Bracket

First spherical

All instances Japanese
All video games to be streamed on ESPN+

Friday, Nov. 15

• No. 8 Utah St. vs. Washington, 4 p.m.
• No. 7 Georgia vs. Colorado, 4:30 p.m.
• No. 1 Florida St. vs. Samford, 5 p.m.
• No. 1 Duke vs. Howard, 6 p.m.
• No. 2 North Carolina vs. USC Upstate, 6 p.m.
• No. 2 Wake Forest vs. Morehead St., 6 p.m.
• No. 3 Ohio State vs. James Madison, 6 p.m.
• No. 3 South Carolina vs. East Carolina, 6 p.m.
• No. 3 Iowa vs. Missouri St., 7 p.m.
• No. 4 Notre Dame vs. Milwaukee, 7 p.m.
• No. 4 Texas vs. Boston U, 7 p.m.
• No. 4 Virginia vs. Princeton, 7 p.m.
• No. 5 Kentucky vs. West Virginia, 7 p.m.
• No. 6 Auburn vs. FIU, 7 p.m.
• No. 6 Minnesota vs. South Dakota St., 7 p.m.
• No. 7 Virginia Tech vs. Tennessee, 7 p.m.
• No. 2 Arkansas vs. Oklahoma St., 7:30 p.m.
• No. 5 TCU vs. SFA, 8 p.m.
• No. 5 Wisconsin vs. Maine, 8 p.m.
• No. 7 BYU vs. Santa Clara, 8 p.m.
• No. 8 Saint Louis vs. Kansas, 8 p.m.
• No. 8 Texas Tech vs. LSU, 8 p.m.
• No. 8 Vanderbilt vs. Lipscomb, 8 p.m.
• No. 2 UCLA vs. California Baptist, 9 p.m.
• No. 3 Stanford vs. UC Santa Barbara, 9 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 16

• No. 5 Michigan St. vs. Western Mich. 12 p.m.
• No. 6 Georgetown vs. Fairfield, 12 p.m.
• No. 7 Pepperdine vs. California, 3 p.m.
• No. 6 Rutgers vs. UConn, 5 p.m.
• No. 1 Mississippi St. vs. Southern U., 6 p.m.
• No. 4 Penn St. vs. Stony Brook, 6 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 17

• No. 1 Southern California vs. Sacramento St., 5 p.m.

Second and third spherical

Friday, Nov. 22 and Saturday, Nov. 23

Quarterfinals

Friday, Nov. 29 and Saturday, Nov. 30

Semifinals

Friday, Dec. 6

Ultimate

Monday, Dec. 9

• TBD vs. TBD, 7 p.m. (ESPNU)