No. 3 Stanford Cardinal (22-1, 10-0 Pac-12)
vs.
New Mexico State Aggies (15-9, 3-2 WAC)
NCAA Championships First Round
Saturday, May 4 • 12 p.m.
Taube Family Tennis Stadium • Stanford, Calif.
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STANFORD, Calif. - Stanford will be making its 38th consecutive postseason appearance when first round competition gets underway at campus sites this weekend.
The most decorated program in college history and the winningest program on The Farm, Stanford has won 19 of the possible 37 NCAA championships. Stanford owns a 153-19 all-time record in the postseason since the NCAA Tournament went to its present format in 1982. The Cardinal has won 20 national titles overall in school history, also claiming the 1978 AIAW crown.
The Cardinal (22-1, 10-0 Pac-12), which has hosted NCAA first and second round competition at Taube Family Tennis Stadium every year since the inception of the 64-team format in 1999, is seeded No. 3 in the postseason draw.
Stanford will host New Mexico State (15-9, 3-2 WAC) at 12 p.m. on Saturday, May 4, in its NCAA Tournament opener. Syracuse (13-12, 5-9 ACC) will face Wisconsin (18-5, 9-2 Big Ten) at 9 a.m. in the day's opening match. The winners meet in the second round on Sunday, May 5, at 12 p.m. Stanford has won 59 of its last 62 matches at Taube Family Tennis Stadium.
Taube Family Tennis Stadium will also serve as a host site on the men's side. All seats are general admission. Single-day tickets are $8 (adult) and $5 (student/youth/senior). Tickets will go sale today at 5 p.m. The box office will open 30 minutes before the first event on each day.
Stanford, which is 44-5 during the month of May since 2010, enters the postseason riding a 17-match winning streak as one of the hottest teams in the country. The Cardinal defeated UCLA 4-2 last weekend to capture its fourth straight Pac-12 crown, representing its longest conference title stretch since a 21-year stranglehold on the Pac-10 from 1988-2008.
Despite Stanford's profile as the most storied program in the history of the sport, this is only the second time over the last 11 years that Stanford has entered NCAA's seeded higher than No. 5 (the Cardinal was No. 1 in 2011).
Remarkably, Stanford has won its last four NCAA championships as a No. 8 seed or lower. In 2018, No. 15 Stanford duplicated its 2016 NCAA title run as the lowest-seeded team to win an NCAA championship. In 2013, Stanford won it all as a No. 12 seed. In 2010, the Cardinal claimed the crown as a No. 8 seed.
NCAA first and second round competition features four teams playing in a single-elimination format. In a format change for 2019, the winner of each site advances to super-regional competition on May 10-11, with two teams playing in a single-elimination format. The super-regional winners advance to the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Florida, where the eight teams will compete for the national championship May 17-19.