STANFORD, Calif. – No. 4 Stanford earned the No. 4 overall seed in the 2018 NCAA Men's Tennis Championships and will face New Mexico State at Taube Family Tennis Stadium in the tournament's first round next Saturday, May 12, at 1 p.m. PT.
Duke (16-13) and Ole Miss (14-12) to will also travel to The Farm for an NCAA Championships first-round contest next Saturday at 10 a.m. PT, with the winner of the two matches facing off in a second-round match next Sunday at 2 p.m. PT.
Stanford and New Mexico State (16-8), the Western Athletic Conference champions, have never met before.
Stanford earns the No. 4 overall seed and will host @NMStateMTEN in the first round of the @NCAATennis Championships. @DukeMTEN and @OleMissMTennis also coming to The Farm for first/second round matches May 12-13. #GoStanford pic.twitter.com/2zqGN5K7fK
— Stanford Men's Tennis (@StanfordTennis) May 1, 2018
Taube Family Tennis Stadium will play host to NCAA first and second round competition on May 11-13, also serving as a host site on the women's side. All seats are general admission. Single-day tickets are $8 (adult) and $5 (student/youth/senior). Tickets will go sale Wednesday, May 2, at 9 a.m. PT. The box office will open 30 minutes before the first event on each day.
Stanford, which completed its best regular season in 17 years, received its 11th consecutive and 39th all-time NCAA Championships berth. Under the direction of fourth-year head coach Paul Goldstein, the Cardinal enters NCAA play 21-3 overall.
The Cardinal has been ranked in the top-five in the Oracle/ITA poll for the past three months and enters the NCAA Championships No. 4 in the rankings. Stanford reached the semifinals of the Pac-12 Championships this past weekend, dropping a 4-0 decision to No. 12 USC. Its only other two losses on the season were to No. 1 Wake Forest (4-3) and No. 2 UCLA (4-0).
Stanford owns a 108-23 all-time record in the NCAA Championships, winning 17 national titles overall. The Cardinal, which most recently captured the NCAA Championship in 2000, advanced to the Round of 16 last season, falling to Wake Forest in Athens, Georgia. Stanford has reached the Round of 16 each of the last two seasons.
All first and second round matches are played at campus sites. The final 16 teams square off at the NCAA Tennis Championships in Winston-Salem, N.C., beginning Thursday, May 17. The national championship matches are set for Tuesday, May 22.