{"id":257398,"date":"2026-05-04T07:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257398\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T07:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:01:10","slug":"denver-to-face-florida-in-opening-round-of-ncaa-tournament-in-boulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257398\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver to Face Florida in Opening Round of NCAA Tournament in Boulder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     DENVER \u2013\u202fThe University of Denver women&#8217;s lacrosse team will travel to the Boulder Regional as a part of the opening weekend of the national tournament, it was announced during the NCAA Selection Show on Sunday night. The Pioneers will take on the Florida Gators in the first round in Boulder, Colorado on Friday, May\u00a0 8 at 7 p.m. MT\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nDenver secured an automatic bid into the NCAA postseason by winning the Big East Conference tournament championship on Saturday with a 12-4 victory over Georgetown at Peter Barton Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All games in the first two rounds will be broadcasted on ESPN+.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nDU owns an 0-7 record against the Gators, including two NCAA tournament games in 2013 and 2014. The two teams were conference foes in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation in 2014 and Big East opponents in 2017-2018.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Pioneers are in the NCAA Tournament for the eighth straight year and the tenth time in program history.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nDU has advanced to the second round in eight of its previous nine appearances, reaching the quarterfinals in 2019 against No. 1 Maryland and making its program first championship weekend appearance in 2023 against No. 1 Northwestern. Denver owns an 11-9 all-time record in the national tournament.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nOverall, 29 schools are in the NCAA Women&#8217;s Lacrosse National Championship, with 15 earning automatic berths for winning their respective conference tournaments. The other 14 squads are at-large bids. The top three seeds have a bye in the first round.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nNorthwestern is the No. 1 overall seed, North Carolina is second, Maryland is third and Johns Hopkins is fourth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DENVER&#8217;S HOME FOR COLLEGE SPORTS<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nVisit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpioneers.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DenverPioneers.com<\/a>\u00a0for complete coverage of all 18 of\u00a0DU&#8217;s NCAA Division I sports<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nLike\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DenverPioneers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Pioneers<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DenverWomensLacrosse\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Women&#8217;s Lacrosse\u00a0<\/a>on Facebook<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFollow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DU_Pioneers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@DU_Pioneers<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DU_WLAX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@DU_WLAX\u00a0<\/a>on Twitter<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFollow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/denverpioneers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@DenverPioneers<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/du_wlax\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@DU_WLAX\u00a0<\/a>on Instagram<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; DENVER \u2013\u202fThe University of Denver women&#8217;s lacrosse team will travel to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-257398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}