Texas women’s soccer NCAA tournament

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Texas is a 4 seed and will play Boston College in Austin this weekend 

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Correction Texas is a 4 seed plays Boston U in Austin this weekend.

Winner plays the winner of the Michigan (5 seed) and Western Michigan 

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AUSTIN, Texas – Having already clinched a berth into the 2024 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Championship as a result of winning Sunday afternoon's 2024 SEC Soccer Tournament Final against No. 14 South Carolina, the 21st-ranked Texas Longhorns learned their postseason fate during Monday afternoon's selection show.

Texas (16-3-2) was the eighth team revealed in the tournament's 64-team field during an unraveling that started in the upper-left quadrant of the four-quadrant bracket. The Longhorns, seeded fourth in the quadrant that also features top seed Duke, second seed UCLA and third seed Iowa, will open play on Friday, Nov. 15, when UT takes on Boston University (6-7-7) at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin.

The Terriers won the Patriot League Tournament after knocking out third seed Army, 2-1, in double overtime, before beating top seed Bucknell in a 10-round penalty kick shootout to claim their fifth Patriot League title.

"People are going to be discussing our seeding back and forth, but it's ultimately BU, right," said Texas women's soccer head coach Angela Kelly. "It'll be Boston University (in Austin) on Friday night at 6.

"I'm so incredibly proud of the work that we put in this past week. To be sitting here as reigning SEC champions is just phenomenal. That's the reality. That's the truth. The other truth is we play Friday night at 6. We want Longhorn Nation out here loud and proud, and we are going to be ready to play."

Texas will be one of 10 SEC women's soccer programs (LSU, Texas, Tennessee, South Carolina, Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, Kentucky, Arkansas, Georgia, Auburn) to be selected for this season's Division I Women's Soccer Championship. The appearance will be the Longhorns' 18th all-time selection to the NCAA Tournament and seventh in the last eight seasons with the 2020 COVID-19 altered campaign being the exception.

Since arriving on the Forty Acres prior to the 2012 season, Texas has now made the NCAA Tournament eight times under Kelly with the 2023 squad tying the 2004 and 2007 teams for the best finish by reaching the Sweet Sixteen. Additionally, UT has now appeared in the NCAA Tournament in each of the last four consecutive seasons, which is the second longest streak in program history after the Longhorns made the postseason tournament eight consecutive seasons from 2001 to 2008.