No. 9 West Chester Hosts New Haven In First Round Of NCAA Tournament

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – West Chester University learned that it will have one more home game in 2018 as the NCAA revealed its 2018 Division II Football field of 28 online Sunday evening. West Chester will host New Haven out of the Northeast 10 at John A. Farrell Stadium Saturday at 1 p.m.
 
West Chester (10-0) welcomes New Haven to Southeastern Pennsylvania. The Chargers bring an 8-2 record into Farrell Stadium on Saturday. They lost to LIU-Post, 17-13, on Saturday in the regular-season finale.
 
The Golden Rams are coming off a 33-10 victory over Slippery Rock in the PSAC Championship Game Saturday in Slippery Rock, Pa. West Chester is making its second straight and 13th appearance overall in the NCAA II Playoffs.
 
DII football is broken down into four Super Regions. Each one of these regions will send their top seven teams to the DII Football Championship based upon the DII Football Committee's selections, with the four No. 1 teams earning a first-round. Unlike many other brackets, there are no automatic bids awarded in DII football.
 
Once the 28 teams are selected, each region is represented in its corner of the bracket. The No. 1 seeds will have a first-round bye, leaving three first-round games in each region. The first round, second round, and quarterfinals are all played in-region, with one of the competing schools hosting each game. There are no neutral sites until the national championship games. The four Super Regional winners will head to the semifinals.
 
The final four teams are reseeded in the semifinals, No. 1 through No. 4. No. 1 will play No. 4 and No. 2 will play No. 3 at one of the competing teams home field. The two winners will head to the McKinney Independent School District Stadium and Community Event Center in McKinney, Texas on Dec. 15 to play for the national championship. McKinney is the fourth Texas city to host the DII football championship. Wichita Falls first hosted the championship in 1976 and 1977, followed by a one-year stop at Longview in 1978 before a five-year run in McAllen from 1981-85.