CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – Nine Atlantic Coast Conference women’s tennis teams were selected to the 2024 NCAA Women’s Tennis Championships with three top-15 seeds in No. 4 North Carolina, No. 5 Virginia and No. 15 NC State. The league’s nine teams selected to the championship are the most of any conference in the nation.
Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Miami, Notre Dame and Wake Forest also received bids, which were announced Monday evening by the NCAA.
The 2024 ACC Champion and defending National Champion Tar Heels (22-3) will host Navy (24-6) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, as they make their 25th straight appearance in the championship. Virginia (22-4) welcomes LIU (11-5) to Charlottesville, Virginia as the Cavaliers secured their 20th consecutive championship bid. The NC State Wolfpack (20-8) will host South Carolina State (16-4) in a rematch of their first round-match in the 2023 NCAA Championship.
In other first-round matches, Duke (15-9) will make its 34th consecutive appearance when the Blue Devils head to Knoxville, Tennessee, to face East Tennessee (17-7). Florida State (16-8) will take on UNC Asheville (16-3) in Athens, Georgia, while Georgia Tech (13-9) travels to Austin, Texas, to face Illinois (17-9).
Miami (11-7) will stay close to home and travel to Gainesville, Florida, to face FIU (19-2) in its 28th straight championship bid, while Notre Dame (17-9) will square off with Xavier (19-5) in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This marks the second-straight season the Fighting Irish have earned an at-large bid to the NCAA after going five seasons without a postseason appearance.
Wake Forest (15-13) secured its eighth-straight berth to the NCAA Championship and will travel to Columbus, Ohio, to face Vanderbilt (12-10).
First- and second-round competition takes place May 3-4 or May 4-5 and features four teams playing in a single-elimination format. The winner of each site advances to super-regional competition May 10 or 11. Each super-regional site will feature two teams playing a single-elimination format. The super-regional winners advance to the Greenwood Tennis Center in Stillwater, Oklahoma, where the eight teams will compete for the national championship May 17-19. The event will be hosted by Oklahoma State University.
The individual championship competitors will be announced in an NCAA.com press…
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