BRUNSWICK, Maine – The Bowdoin College volleyball team is set to take on Johnson & Wales (Providence) in its NCAA Tournament opener on Friday at 3:00 p.m. on the campus of MIT.
Links to live coverage of the match, along with ticket prices, parking information and a complete schedule of weekend play is available at the
NCAA Regional Homepage.
About the Polar Bears
The champions of the New England Small College Athletic Conference, Bowdoin placed first in the regular season standings and rolled Wesleyan, 3-1, in the title match on Sunday to claim its fourth conference crown all-time…Bowdoin is making its fourth NCAA Tournament appearance in six years under head coach
Erin Cady and its seventh overall…the Polar Bears have established themselves as one of the region's top squads since Cady's arrival, winning three NESCAC titles and two NCAA Regional Championships (2019, 2015)…Bowdoin's postseason record under Cady (both NESCAC and NCAA Tournament play) is 21-6…the Polar Bears took home an impressive haul in the conference's postseason awards this week as
Cori Gray was named NESCAC Player of the Year and Cady collected Coach of the Year…Gray and
Sophia Pahl were named First Team All-NESCAC while
Ella Haugen took home Second Team honors…Bowdoin was the last team to defeat unbeaten and top-ranked Johns Hopkins, who owns an NCAA-record winning streak (64 games entering NCAA play) in the second round of the 2018 NCAA Tournament.
Series History vs. Potential Regional Opponents
Bowdoin will face Johnson & Wales in its NCAA opener, a very familiar opponent for the Polar Bears…the Polar Bears had lost five straight to J&W between 2002-2018 before finally tipping the Wildcats, 3-1, in September of 2019 at Tufts in the regular season…later that season, in the team's only postseason clash, Bowdoin swept J&W, 3-0, in the NCAA Regional Final in Medford.
- Maine Maritime – Bowdoin leads 7-0 dating back to 2009
- Susquehanna – never played
- UMass Boston – Bowdoin leads 7-3 overall, UMB leads 2-1 in NCAA play
- Haverford – never played
- Eastern Nazarene – never played
- MIT – MIT leads 11-5 overall, has won three straight, including meeting early this year. Bowdoin has won both NCAA meetings, including 2015 regional final at MIT.
Up Next
The winner of Friday's match will advance to play the winner of Maine Maritime/Susquehanna at 1:30 p.m. Saturday with Sunday's regional final scheduled for 1:00 p.m. The winner of the regional heads to the NCAA Quarterfinals on Nov. 18-20 at Francis Fieldhouse in St. Louis, Missouri, with Washington University of St. Louis serving as host.
