Virginia Tech women's soccer gets NCAA Tournament bid & will host Tennessee

After being eliminated in the quarterfinals of the ACC Tournament by North Carolina, it was very unlikely that it would be the last time we saw the Virginia Tech women's soccer team in 2024. Turns out, it was true.

On Monday afternoon, the NCAA released the 64 teams for the NCAA Tournament that begins this upcoming weekend and the Hokies are part of the field. Virginia Tech got the No. 7 seed in the Duke Regional and will host No. 10-seed Tennessee on Friday night at 7 p.m. at Thompson Field. The winner gets the winner of the match between second-seeded UCLA and 15th-seeded Cal Baptist.

Virginia Tech will make its third NCAA Tournament appearance in the last four seasons and 10th overall under coach Chugger Adair. The Hokies finished 11-5-3 on the season and 6-2-2 in the ACC, which included upsets of Florida State and Notre Dame during the regular season. Tennessee will come to Blacksburg with a 9-6-4 record as an SEC school, where they finished 3-4-3 in conference play.

Virginia Tech has been a very good defensive team all season long, allowing 0.74 goals a match, which was second in the ACC this fall. This will be the first NCAA Tournament game that the Hokies are hosting since 2021 when they eliminated Ohio State, 3-1.

It will be a very busy Friday for Virginia Tech athletics with three high-profile matchups. Along with an NCAA Tournament game on campus, the eighth-ranked Hokies' wrestling team will host 19th-ranked Missouri in Cassell Coliseum, while Mike Young and the men's basketball team will be on the road in Baltimore to play Penn State in an early-season power non-conference game.