The eight-team field competing for the 2010 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Bowling Championship was just announced by the NCAA Women's Bowling Committee.
The field includes the following teams, all selected at large:
* Arkansas State University
* University of Central Missouri
* Delaware State University
* Fairleigh Dickinson University
* University of Maryland, Eastern Shore
* University of Nebraska, Lincoln
* New Jersey City University
* Vanderbilt University
New Jersey City University will host the championship, which will be held April 8-10 at Brunswick Zone Carolier Lanes in North Brunswick, N.J. Tickets can be purchased by calling 201-200-2444 prior to the championship.
Competition will begin with qualifying rounds in which each team bowls one five-person regular team game against each of the other seven teams 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. A Baker match tied 3½ games to 3½ games after seven games will be decided using a shootout sudden-death roll-off.
During bracket play, the higher seed receives starting lane preference for the first and seventh games of the match and for a tiebreaker.
The University of Nebraska, Lincoln captured the 2009 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Bowling Championship at Super Bowl Lanes in Canton, Mich. The Huskers defeated the University of Central Missouri, 4-1, for their third bowling championship.
The 2010 championship finals will air live on ESPNU on Saturday, April 10, at 8:30 p.m. Eastern, and a tape delay broadcast of the finals will air on ESPN on Sunday, April 11 at 3 p.m. Eastern.
For more information about the NCAA National Collegiate Women's Bowling Championship, go to ncaa.com.
