Mustangs To Tackle Vandy In Collegiate Match Play Championship
Oct 18 | Women's Golf
Oct. 18, 2006
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. - The National Golf Coaches Association (NGCA), in association with Hooters of America, Inc., have unveiled the brackets for the 2006 Hooters Collegiate Match Play Championship for Women, which will be held Nov. 3-5 at Eagle Creek Golf Club in Orlando, Fla. and will be co-hosted by the Central Florida Sports Commission. In their opening match, the 13th-seeded SMU Mustangs will battle fourth-seeded Vanderbilt.
"It's a tremendous honor to be invited to the Match Play Championship," said Head Coach Todd Selders. "We are very excited about the event."
The University of Georgia was named the top seed while Duke, the 2003 and 2004 Match Play Champion and 2005 National Champion, was placed as the second seed. The 2005 Match Play Champion, Purdue University, arrives back in Central Florida to defend their title as the eighth seed. Invitations to the Match Play were based on the 2006 national championship finish and seeds were determined based on Fall 2006 results through October 17.
Georgia will face No. 16 seed Nebraska. The winner of this match faces the winner of Purdue and ninth-seeded Arkansas. To round out the top half of the bracket, fifth-seeded Wake Forest tees of against No. 12 LSU.
In-state rivals No. 3 Auburn will match up against No. 14 Alabama and will advance to face the winner of a Pac-10/Big Ten clash between sixth-seeded Arizona and No. 11 Michigan State. Second-seed Duke competes against No. 15 South Carolina and in the most anticipated match of the first round, seventh-seeded Florida State squares off with rival No. 10 Florida.
First-Round Matches#1 Georgia vs. #16 Nebraska#8 Purdue vs. #9 Arkansas#4 Vanderbilt vs. #13 SMU#5 Wake Forest vs. #12 LSU#3 Auburn vs. #14 Alabama#6 Arizona vs. #11 Michigan State#7 Florida State vs. #10 Florida#2 Duke vs. #15 South Carolina
