History! Men's Tennis Earns First-Ever NCAA Championship Bid

PHILADELPHIA – For the first time in program history, the University of Pennsylvania men's tennis team will play in the NCAA Championship, with the Quakers making the field of 64 as announced Monday evening.

Penn (19-5) earned an at-large bid and will travel to Charlottesville, Va., this weekend for a first-round match with VCU (21-6), the champions of the Atlantic 10, on Friday at 1 p.m. The winner of that match will advance to Saturday's second round at 4 p.m., facing the winner of the first-round match between host Virginia (22-5), the ACC champion and tournament's #7 seed, and Fairleigh Dickinson (10-11), winner of the Northeast Conference Tournament. The Cavaliers and Knights are scheduled to play their first-round match Friday at 4 p.m., following the conclusion of the match between the Quakers and Rams.

The last team standing from the quadrant will advance to Super Regional weekend on May 13 and 14. The national semifinals and championship will take place May 21 and 22 on the campus of the University of Illinois in Champaign, Ill.

Penn is one of four Ivy League teams in the field of 64, as the Quakers qualified along with Harvard (a host and #14 overall seed), Columbia, and Princeton. The Quakers went 2-1 in Ivy action against the other three, knocking off the Lions and Tigers and falling to the Crimson, Penn's only Ivy League loss of the spring. You can view the entire bracket here.

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