Teams announced for 2022 NCAA Division I women’s tennis championship

INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Subcommittee has selected the 64 teams and 16 first- and second-round sites for the 2022 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championship. Per NCAA policy, the top 16 seeds are guaranteed to host if a bid was submitted and criteria are met, and matchups between conference opponents were avoided in the first two rounds of the championship.  

First- and second-round competition takes place May 6-7 or 7-8 and features four teams playing in a single-elimination format. The winner of each site advances to super-regional competition May 13 or 14. Each super-regional site will feature two teams playing a single-elimination format. The super-regional winners advance to the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex in Champaign, Illinois, where the eight teams will compete for the national championship May 20-22. The event will be hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The matches shall be regulation dual matches. Three doubles matches consisting of six-game sets will be played for one team point, followed by six singles matches, each valued at one team point; played the best of three sets. No-ad scoring will be used and a seven-point tiebreaker (first to seven points, must win by two points) will be played at six-games-all. The team winning four or more team points advances in the championship bracket.

During the championships, all matches will be stopped after the doubles point is decided. All remaining individual matches will be stopped once a team winner (four points won) has been determined. The score will only reflect completed matches. The complete list of teams and sites is included on the official bracket, which is available at www.ncaa.com.
 
Thirty-one conferences receive automatic qualification into the 2022 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships.  Each conference and its automatic qualifier are listed below.

American Athletic – Memphis
Atlantic 10 – VCU
Atlantic Coast – Duke
ASUN – Stetson
Big East – Xavier
Big Sky – Northern Arizona
Big South – Charleston Southern
Big Ten – Michigan
Big 12 – Texas
Big West – UC Santa Barbara
Colonial – William & Mary
Conference USA – Old Dominion
Horizon – Youngstown State
Ivy League – Princeton
MAAC – Quinnipiac
Mid-American – Ball State 
Mid-Eastern – South Carolina State
Missouri Valley – Illinois State
Mountain West – San Diego State
Northeast – Bryant
Ohio Valley – Southeast Missouri State
Pac-12 – Stanford
Patriot – Army West Point
SEC – Texas A&M
Southern – Furman
Southland – Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
SWAC – Jackson State
Summit – Denver
Sun Belt – South Alabama
West Coast – Pepperdine
WAC – New Mexico State

Click here to see the complete bracket for the 2022 DI women's tennis championship.