{"id":143469,"date":"2018-11-09T08:08:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T13:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=143469"},"modified":"2018-11-09T09:28:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T14:28:18","slug":"uconn-field-hockey-face-rutgers-ncaa-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2018\/11\/uconn-field-hockey-face-rutgers-ncaa-first-round\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Field Hockey to Face Rutgers in NCAA First Round"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UConn defeated Liberty in a tightly contested Big East Field Hockey Championship game on Nov. 4. (Joel Coleman for UConn)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Big East Champion UConn field hockey team (18-3) will take on Rutgers (13-5) to open 2018 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Tournament play in the first round on Friday at 2:30 p.m. in College Park, Maryland.<\/p>\n

The game will be hosted by No. 2 seed Maryland, which will take on Albany in the first round. The winners of the first round games will face off on Sunday, at a time to be determined.<\/p>\n

UConn won its seventh straight Big East Tournament championship Sunday with a 5-3 win over second-seeded Liberty, earning the Huskies an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Head coach Nancy Stevens<\/a>\u00a0posted her 500th\u00a0win as the UConn leader in the game.<\/p>\n

The tightly contested championship match went back and forth between the top two teams in the Big East, and the Flames benefited from a great show of support from their home crowd.<\/p>\n

For their efforts in the tournament, UConn’s Amelia Iacobucci, Svea Boker, Amanda Collins, Cecile Pieper,\u00a0and Cheyenne Sprecher received All-Big East Tournament honors. Pieper\u00a0was named the Big East Tournament Most Outstanding Player.<\/p>\n

The Huskies have qualified for 16 straight NCAA Tournaments, and UConn has won three NCAA Championships in the past five years. Connecticut is making its 22nd\u00a0NCAA Tournament appearance under Stevens.<\/p>\n

The Final Four will be hosted in Louisville, Kentucky, on Nov. 16 and 18.<\/p>\n

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After winning its seventh straight Big East Tournament championship Sunday, UConn heads to Maryland to face Rutgers on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":143490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1712,2225,2234],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[175],"class_list":["post-143469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-uconn-storrs","category-university-life"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 13:09:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143469"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143494,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143469\/revisions\/143494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/143490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143469"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=143469"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=143469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}