2013 NCAA Bowling Championship
DETROIT (4/10/13) – The top eight collegiate bowling teams from across the United States will invade Super Bowl Lanes in Canton, Mich. starting Thursday to compete in the 2013 NCAA Women's Bowling Championship. The University of Detroit Mercy and the Detroit Sports Commission are hosting the championship, which will be held April 11-13.
“The Detroit Sports Commission is pleased to again host the National Collegiate Women's Bowling Championship,” said Dave Beachnau, DSC executive director. “Our strong relationship with the NCAA, along with the tremendous support of the University of Detroit Mercy as the host institution, Community Bowling Centers as owner and operator of Super Bowl Lanes, Detroit's history in hosting the 2009 and 2011 NCAA bowling championship, and as the bowling capital of the world, we expect another successful event.”
The eight-team field competing for the 2013 National Collegiate Women's Bowling Championship was announced March 27 by the NCAA Women's Bowling Committee. The seeded field includes the following teams:
1. Central Missouri
2. Maryland Eastern Shore
3. Nebraska
4. Arkansas State
5. Vanderbilt
6. Sam Houston State
7. Wisconsin-Whitewater
8. Fairleigh Dickinson
Competition begins with qualifying rounds in which each team bowls one five-person regular team game against each of the other seven teams participating in the championship for a total of seven games. Teams will be seeded for bracket play based on their win-loss record during the qualifying rounds. Teams will then compete in best-of-seven-games Baker matches in a double elimination tournament. In the Baker format, each of the five team members, in order, bowls a complete frame until a complete (10-frame) game is bowled. A Baker match tied 3½ games to 3½ games after seven games will be decided by a tiebreaker using the Modified Baker format.
The University of Maryland, Eastern Shore won its second consecutive National Collegiate Women's Bowling Championship in 2012 at Freeway Lanes in Wickliffe, Ohio defeating Fairleigh Dickinson in six games, winning the final game 203-176. With the victory, Maryland Eastern Shore became the first team since 2004-05 to win back-to-back national titles.
The championship finals will air on ESPNU Saturday, April 13 at 8 p.m. Eastern Time. A tape delay broadcast of the championship finals will air on ESPN Sunday, April 14 from 2 - 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
For more information about the National Collegiate Women's Bowling Championship, log on to www.NCAA.com. Tickets can be purchased on www.NCAA.com prior to the championship.
