Monday, February 26th, 2007

Women's Basketball Team To Travel To Randolph-Macon For NCAA Tournament Opening Round

Complete Championship Bracket

The Piedmont College women's basketball team will square off against host Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, VA on Friday, March 2nd in the first round of the 2007 NCAA Division-III Tournament with tip-off set for 7:00. The Yellow Jackets finished the season with a 24-4 overall record and won the Old Dominion Athletic Conference Tournament to receive an automatic bid into championship.

Thirty-nine conferences have been awarded automatic qualification for the 2007 championship. Four teams were selected from Pool B, which consists of independent institutions, and institutions that are members of conferences that do not meet the requirements for automatic qualification. The final 20 berths were reserved for Pool C, which are institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champion and any remaining Pool B teams.

One first-round game will be conducted February 28, one second-round game will be conducted March 3 and 15 first/second-round games will be conducted March 2-3. Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional sites March 9-10. Winners of the four sectional games will advance to the national semi-finals March 16-17. All games, except the finals, will be played on the campuses of competing institutions. The finals will be conducted at Blake Arena, Springfield College, Springfield, Massachusetts.

The NCAA post-season appearance is the first-ever for the PC women's basketball team as this year marked the first-ever automatic berth granted to the conference tournament champion. The NCAA selection is the fourth since Piedmont became full-fledged NCAA members four seasons ago as the men's soccer (2003), men's tennis (2004), and softball (2006) teams have each earned post-season participation.

Rounding out the four-team regional at Randolph-Macon will be William Patterson University (22-5) from the New Jersey Athletic Conference and McDaniel College (23-3) from the Centennial Conference. Both teams earned Pool C bids.