The Charlotte 49ers drew a familiar opponent for the first round of the NCAA soccer tournament.
Charlotte (14-3-3) will face Alabama-Birmingham (10-7-2) Thursday at 7 p.m. at Transamerica Field in a rematch of the 49ers’ 3-1 victory against the Blazers in last season’s second-round game in Birmingham, Ala.
This will actually be the fourth time in three seasons the 49ers and Blazers have played. UAB beat Charlotte 2-1 in overtime in the 2010 regular season, while the 49ers and Blazers tied 1-1 earlier this season.
And next year, the two programs will see each other even more regularly when the 49ers move to Conference USA.
The 49ers-Blazers winner will play Sunday at Georgetown, the tournament’s No. 3 seed.
Admission for Thursday’s game is free for UNC Charlotte students. Tickets go on sale Tuesday at 10 a.m. and are $7 for adults, $3 for youth (17 and under) and $3 (per person) for groups of 10 or more. Group tickets must be purchased in advance by phone before noon Thursday. Information: https://www.ticketreturn.com/prod2/team.asp?SponsorID=4934 or call 704-687-4949.
Monday, November 12, 2012
Familiar foe for 49ers in NCAA soccer tournament
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8 comments:
Unfair (lack of) seeding, but what can you do? The NCAA is a joke of an organization.
GO NINERS!!!
you know a school has a brutal athletic program when soccer is the flagship
Anon649, have you forgotten about the recent successes of our girls' programs?
You know you have no life when you troll blogs and message boards.
I would love to read why the team was not seeded and what the RPI rank was to have this be a first round match. Losing to VCU twice must have been worse than we expected.
^^^^^
Rpi was 17. For comparison Wake Forest had a comparable RPI (18) but was seeded 15. For the 49ers to be matched up in a possible second round match with a 3 seed would mean that they would have to have been about the 27th or 28th team selected. Obviously, there was politics involved.
@6:49
Dean Smith used to say Chapel Hill was a girl's soccer school when he coached. He was joking. You, on the other hand, are just an idiot
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