No. 1 Rowing tabbed top seed for NCAA Championships

INDIANAPOLIS – No. 1 Texas Rowing was selected as the top overall seed for the 2024 NCAA Division I Rowing Championship, the NCAA selection committee announced on Tuesday. Texas was tabbed the No. 1 seed in the First Eight and Second Eight, while the Four was announced as the second seed. The championship will be held May 31-June 2 at East Fork/Harsha Lake in Bethel, Ohio.

Texas is the top overall seed for the second time in program history and first time since 2022. The First Eight earned the top seed for the third time in program history (2021-22) and the Second Eight for the second time (2022).

Fresh off a ninth consecutive sweep at the Big 12 Championship, the Longhorns, winners of the 2021 and 2022 national titles, will look to become just the third program to win three NCAA titles over a four-year stretch, joining Brown (1999-2000, '02) and Ohio State (2013-15). UT placed fourth overall at the 2023 NCAA Championships, while the Texas Four won the national crown in the event for the first time in program history.

The team championship is composed of 22 teams. Eleven conferences were awarded automatic qualification, and the remaining eleven slots were filled with at-large selections to complete the championship field. Teams qualifying for the championship are required to field two boats of eight rowers and one boat of four rowers. For the I Eights, II Eights and Fours, all 22 boats are seeded into four heats.

Automatic Qualifiers:
Boston University (Patriot League)
Gonzaga (West Coast Conference)
Jacksonville (Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference)
Michigan (Big Ten Conference)
Northeastern (Colonial Athletic Conference)
Princeton (The Ivy League)
Rhode Island (Atlantic 10 Conference)
SMU (American Athletic Conference)
Stanford (Pac-12 Conference)
Syracuse (Atlantic Coast Conference)
Texas (Big 12 Conference)

At-Large Selections:
Brown
California
Duke
Indiana
Ohio State
Pennsylvania
Rutgers
Tennessee
Virginia
Washington
Yale

Seed	First Eight	Second Eight	Four
1	TEXAS	TEXAS	Stanford
2	Stanford	Tennessee	TEXAS
3	Princeton	Stanford	Princeton
4	Tennessee	Brown	Yale
5	California	Yale	Brown
6	Pennsylvania	Princeton	Michigan
7	Yale	Washington	Tennessee
8	Syracuse	California	Washington
9	Brown	Syracuse	Ohio State
10	Washington	Michigan	Duke
11	Michigan	Rutgers	California
12	Indiana	Indiana	Virginia
13	Ohio State	Ohio State	Rutgers
14	Rutgers	Virginia	Indiana
15	Virginia	Duke	Pennsylvania
16	Duke	Pennsylvania	Gonzaga
17	Gonzaga	Gonzaga	Syracuse
18	Northeastern	Boston U	Boston U
19	Boston U	Northeastern	Northeastern
20	Rhode Island	Rhode Island	SMU
21	SMU	SMU	Rhode Island
22	Jacksonville	Jacksonville	Jacksonville

The University of Texas at Austin Athletics

No. 1 Rowing tabbed top seed for NCAA Championships

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