2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
During the first round, UMBC became the first 16-seed to defeat a 1-seed in the men's tournament by defeating Virginia 74–54. For the first time in tournament history, none of the four top seeded teams in a single region (the South) advanced to the Sweet 16. The tournament also featured the first regional final matchup of a 9-seed (Kansas State) and an 11-seed (Loyola-Chicago).


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
Villanova, Michigan, Kansas, and Loyola-Chicago, the "Cinderella team" of the tournament, reached the Final Four. Villanova defeated Michigan in the championship game, 79–62.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
Atlantic Sun Conference champion Lipscomb made its NCAA tournament debut.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2018 tournament was the first time since 1978 that none of the six Division I college basketball-playing schools based in the Washington, DC metropolitan area – American, Georgetown, George Mason, George Washington, Howard, and Maryland – made the NCAA Tournament.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure
A total of 68 teams entered the 2018 tournament. 32 automatic bids were awarded, one to each program that won their conference tournament. The remaining 36 bids were "at-large", with selections extended by the NCAA Selection Committee.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure
Eight teams (the four lowest-seeded automatic qualifiers and the four lowest-seeded at-large teams) played in the First Four (the successor to what had been popularly known as "play-in games" through the 2010 tournament). The winners of these games advanced to the main draw of the tournament.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure
The Selection Committee seeded the entire field from 1 to 68.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues
The following sites were selected to host each round of the 2018 tournament:


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues
For the fourth time, the Alamodome and city of San Antonio are hosting the Final Four. This is the first tournament since 1994 in which no games were played in an NFL stadium, as the Alamodome is a college football stadium, although the Alamodome hosted some home games for the New Orleans Saints during their 2005 season. The 2018 tournament featured three new arenas in previous host cities.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues
Philips Arena, the home of the Atlanta Hawks and replacement for the previously used Omni Coliseum, hosted the South regional games, and the new Little Caesars Arena, home of the Detroit Pistons and Detroit Red Wings, hosted games. And for the first time since 1994, the tournament returned to Wichita and Kansas where Intrust Bank Arena hosted first round games.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues
The state of North Carolina was threatened with a 2018-2022 championship venue boycott by the NCAA, due to the HB2 law passed in 2016. However, the law was repealed (but with provisos) days before the NCAA met to make decisions on venues in April 2017. At that time, the NCAA board of governors "reluctantly voted to allow consideration of championship bids in North Carolina by our committees that are presently meeting". Therefore, Charlotte was eligible and served as a first weekend venue for the 2018 tournament.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualification and selection
Four teams, out of 351 in Division I, were ineligible to participate in the 2018 tournament due to failing to meet APR requirements: Alabama A&M, Grambling State, Savannah State, and Southeast Missouri State. However, the NCAA granted the Savannah State Tigers a waiver which would have allowed the team to participate in the tournament, but the team failed to qualify.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualification and selection, Automatic qualifiers
The following 32 teams were automatic qualifiers for the 2018 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's automatic bid.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualification and selection, Tournament seeds
The tournament seeds were determined through the NCAA basketball tournament selection process. The seeds and regions were determined as follows:


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Regional brackets
All times are listed as Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4)* – Denotes overtime period


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Final Four
During the Final Four round, regardless of the seeds of the participating teams, the champion of the top overall top seed's region (Virginia's South Region) plays against the champion of the fourth-ranked top seed's region (Xavier's West Region), and the champion of the second overall top seed's region (Villanova's East Region) plays against the champion of the third-ranked top seed's region (Kansas' Midwest Region).


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Record by conference
The Pac-12 lost all of its teams after the first day of the main tournament draw, marking the first time since the Big 12 began play in 1996 that one of the six major conferences—defined as the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, SEC, and both versions of the Big East—failed to have a team advance to the tournament's round of 32.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Television
CBS Sports and Turner Sports had U.S. television rights to the Tournament under the NCAA March Madness brand. As part of a cycle beginning in 2016, TBS held the rights to the Final Four and to the championship game.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Television
For the first time, TBS held the rights to the Selection Show, which expanded into a two-hour format, was presented in front of a studio audience, and promoted that the entire field of the tournament would be unveiled within the first ten minutes of the broadcast. However, this entailed the 68-team field  (beginning with automatic qualifiers, followed by at-large teams) being revealed in alphabetical order, and not by bracket matchups (which was done later in the show). The new format was criticized for lacking suspense, and the show also faced criticism for technical issues, as well as a segment containing product placement for Pizza Hut.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Radio
Westwood One had exclusive radio rights to the entire tournament.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Internet, Video
Live video of games was available for streaming through the following means:


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Internet, Audio
Live audio of games was available for streaming through the following means:


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament: qualifying teams
This is a list of qualifying teams for the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. A total of 68 teams enter the tournament. Thirty two of the teams earn automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments. The remaining 36 teams are granted at-large bids, which are extended by the NCAA Selection Committee. All teams are seeded 1 to 16 within their regionals, while the Selection Committee seeds the entire field from 1 to 68.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament: qualifying teams, Qualifying teams, Automatic bids
Seeds listed were seeds within the conference tournaments. Conference championship runners-up in bold were given at-large berths.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship
The 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship was the 80th annual tournament to determine the national champions of NCAA Division I men's golf. It was contested from May 25 to 30 at the Karsten Creek in Stillwater, Oklahoma and hosted by Oklahoma State.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship
Oklahoma State won its 11th team championship, defeating Alabama 5–0 in the finals. Broc Everett of Augusta won the individual championship in a sudden-death playoff over Brandon Mancheno of Auburn.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, Team competition, Leaderboard
After 54 holes, the field of 30 teams was cut to the top 15.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, Team competition, Leaderboard
Remaining teams: Northwestern (884), Stanford (884), Florida (886), Iowa State (891), UNLV (891), Kentucky (892), UCLA (892), Kansas (894), BYU (897), NC State (897), Central Florida (897), Oregon (899), North Florida (902), Augusta (904), Baylor (910).


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, Team competition, Match play bracket
The eight teams with the lowest total scores advanced to the match play bracket.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, Individual competition
The field was cut after 54 holes to the top 15 teams and the top nine individuals not on a top 15 team. These 84 players competed for the individual championship.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, Individual competition
^ Everett won on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2018 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament was the national championship tournament for men's college ice hockey in the United States. The tournament involved 16 teams in single-elimination play to determine the national champion at the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the highest level of competition in college hockey. The tournament's Frozen Four – the semifinals and final – were hosted by the University of Minnesota at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota from April 5–7, 2018.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Minnesota-Duluth defeated Notre Dame 2–1 to win the program's 2nd NCAA title.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Tournament procedure
The tournament is composed of four groups of four teams in regional brackets. The four regionals are officially named after their geographic areas. The following are the sites for the 2018 regionals:


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Tournament procedure
The winner of each regional will advance to the Frozen Four:


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams
The at-large bids and seeding for each team in the tournament were announced on March 18. The Big Ten had four teams receive a berth in the tournament, the NCHC, Hockey East, and ECAC Hockey each had three teams receive a berth, the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) had two teams receive a berth, and one team from Atlantic Hockey received a berth.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Media, Television
ESPN has US television rights to all games during the tournament for the fourteenth consecutive year. ESPN will air every game, beginning with the regionals, on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNews, ESPNU, or ESPN3 and streamed them online via WatchESPN.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Media, Television
In Canada, the tournament will be broadcast by TSN and streamed on TSN Go.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Media, Television
In the UK, the tournament will be broadcast by BT Sport ESPN.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Media, Radio
Westwood One has exclusive radio rights to the Frozen Four and will air both the semifinals and the championship.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
The 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship weekend was the 48th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national championship for National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's college lacrosse.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
Seventeen teams competed in the tournament, based upon their performance during the regular season. For nine teams, entry into the tournament was by means of a conference tournament automatic qualifier and/or play in, while for eight teams at-large selection was determined by the NCAA selection committee.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
Yale controlled the tournament finals from start to finish, though Duke kept the game suspenseful to the end. This was Yale’s first NCAA lacrosse title and second title overall. Yale's Ben Reeves tied Eamon McEneaney’s 1977 record for most points in an NCAA tournament with 25 points. McEneaney set the record in three tournament games. This was the sixth national championship game for Duke since 2005.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Bracket
Navy-Marine Corps Memorial StadiumAnnapolis, MDMay 19James M. Shuart StadiumHempstead, NY


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Media coverage, Radio
Westwood One provided nationwide radio coverage of the semifinals and championship. It was once again streamed online at westwoodsports.com, through TuneIn, and on SiriusXM. Dave Ryan, Mark Dixon and Jason Horowitz provided the call for Westwood One.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Media coverage, Television
Every game of the 2018 Men's Lacrosse Championship was broadcast on the ESPN Networks (ESPN3- Opening Round,  ESPNU- First Round and Quarterfinals,  ESPN2- Semifinals and National Championship).


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game
The 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game was the final game of the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, determining the national champion for the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. The match was played on December 9, 2018 at Harder Stadium in Santa Barbara, California, a soccer-specific stadium that is home to UC Santa Barbara Gauchos men's and women's soccer programs.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game
The match was contested between the 2018 MAC Men's Soccer Tournament champions, Akron, and the Big Ten Tournament, semifinalists, Maryland. Maryland ultimately won the match 1-0 thanks to a penalty kick goal from Amar Sedjic in the 57th minute of play. Sedjic was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player for his performance. Maryland went through the entire tournament without conceding a single goal.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game
Marked by the media as a "redemption final", the final features two men's soccer heavyweights: Akron and Maryland. Both teams, while regularly successful over the last two decades, have not won an NCAA title in nearly a decade each. During the 2018 campaign, both programs had a slump early on in the season that nearly saw both teams miss out on the NCAA Tournament. A late season resurgence by both programs allowed both to reach the NCAA final.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game
The three-time defending champions, Stanford, were eliminated in the quarterfinals by Akron. The match was broadcast on ESPN2.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game, Road to the final
The NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, sometimes known as the College Cup, is an American intercollegiate soccer tournament conducted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and determines the Division I men's national champion. The tournament has been formally held since 1959, when it was an eight-team tournament. Since then, the tournament has expanded to 48 teams, in which every Division I conference tournament champion is allocated a berth. The tournament was the first final since 2014 to not feature Stanford in the match. It was Akron's first appearance since 2010, which they won their lone NCAA title against Louisville, and Maryland's first appearance since 2013, where they lost to Notre Dame. Maryland has won the NCAA Tournament on three previous occasions: 1968, 2005, and 2008.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game, Road to the final, Akron
Akron entered the championship match on a nine-match winning streak, with their last defeat coming on October 20 at Northern Illinois. The program began the season ranked fourth in the nation in the United Soccer Coaches poll and second in the nation in the TopDrawer Soccer poll. A slow start to the season saw the Zips fall to a 1–3–1 record and slip out of the national rankings. Following the early skid, the Zips rebounded to win their next three straight matches. This was hallmarked by a 10–0 victory of Canisius, making it the program's largest win in history. Akron earned a pair of subsequent road wins at Grand Canyon and at VCU.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game, Road to the final, Akron
Akron began conference play with a scoreless draw at Bowling Green. A chain of inconsistent performances saw the Zips lose at home to West Virginia and Syracuse, but nab victories against Michigan State and Creighton, who were both ranked in the USC Top 10 at the time.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game, Road to the final, Akron
The Zips finished the Mid-American Conference regular season in fourth place, making it the programs poorest regular season performance in MAC play since joining the conference. In the MAC Tournament, the Zips had a season resurgence, winning all of their tournament matches in regulation, en route to their 7th straight Mid-American Conference Men's Soccer Tournament title, and their 11th MAC title in the last 14 years. The championship was a rematch of last year's championship, where the Zips took on Western Michigan. The win guaranteed that the Zips would return to the NCAA Tournament, where their chances prior to the tournament had been on the bubble.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game, Road to the final, Akron
The Zips did not earn a seed in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2013. In the first round, Akron hosted Rider, where they won 3–1. The victory led to a rematch against Syracuse. The match, played at nearby Colgate University, was a triumph for Akron, as they won by the same 3–1 score. The Zips then took on top-seed Wake Forest in the Sweet Sixteen, and earned a 1–0 away victory. In the Elite Eight, Akron took on Stanford, the three-time defending NCAA champions. Akron had been eliminated in penalties for the last 2 tournaments by Stanford. In the match, Akron avenged their losses, and won 3–2 at Stanford booking their spot in the College Cup. There, the Zips prevailed 5–1 against Michigan State, making it the most lopsided semifinal match in nearly 20 years.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game, Pre-match, Venue selection
The National Collegiate Athletic Association determined the host of the final on April 18, 2017. The announcement of Meredith Field at Harder Stadium was in conjunction with WakeMed Soccer Park being announced as the 2019 and 2021 College Cup venue, while Harder Stadium would host the College Cup again in 2020.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game, Pre-match, Analysis
Ahead of the match, both programs had a similar storyline of having a late season resurgence. Akron was considered by some to be the favorite given their longer run of form, and their emphatic win over Michigan State.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game, Match, Details
Assistant referees:Danny Thornberry (United States)Tom Felice (United States)Fourth official:Chris Penso (United States)


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament
The 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament was the 60th edition of the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, a postseason tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division I men's college soccer. The first four rounds of the competition were held at the home ground of the higher seed, while the College Cup (semifinals and final) were held at Harder Stadium on the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara. The championship match was held on December 10, 2018 with the Maryland Terrapins defeating the Akron Zips 1–0 to claim their fourth title in program history.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament
Maryland did not yield any goals in this year's College Cup, maintaining a clean-sheet and out-scoring opponents, 6–0. This was Sasho Cirovski's third title as the Maryland coach. The Stanford Cardinal came into this tournament as the three-time defending NCAA champions. In last year's final, Stanford defeated Indiana in extra time, 1–0. This year, however, Stanford was defeated by eventual runner-up, Akron, 3–2, in the quarterfinal.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, Qualification
As in previous editions of the NCAA Division I Tournament, the tournament features 48 participants out of a possible field of 203 teams. Of the 48 berths, 24 are allocated to the 21 conference tournament champions and to the regular season winners of the Ivy League, Pac-12 Conference, and West Coast Conference, which do not have tournaments. The remaining 24 berths are supposed to be determined through an at-large process based upon the Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) of teams that did not automatically qualify.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, Qualification
The NCAA Selection Committee also names the top sixteen seeds for the tournament, with those teams receiving an automatic bye into the second round of the tournament. The remaining 32 teams play in a single-elimination match in the first round of the tournament for the right to play a seeded team in the second round.


2018 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships
The 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships were contested from March 21–24, 2018 at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center at University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the 95th annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of Division I men's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships
The 2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships were the 97th NCAA Men's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships and the 37th NCAA Women's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships held for the sixth consecutive year at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon on the campus of the University of Oregon. In total, forty-two different men's and women's track and field events were contested from Wednesday June 6 to Saturday June 9, 2018.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 100 meters
Needing points in pursuit of the team title, the University of Houston was hoping to score with its three sprinters Cameron Burrell, Elijah Hall, and Mario Burke in the final of the 100 m on June 8th. Though a headwind prevented fast times, Burrell and Hall were able to accelerate and out-lean Florida State University's Andre Ewers, considered by some to be the favorite, at the finish to score 18 points in addition to Burke's one point for finish eighth. In a post-race interview with ESPN, Burrell said he dedicated his win in this race to teammate Brian Barazza who fell after leading in the 3000 m steeplechase hours before.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 200 meters
The men's 200 m was won by Texas Tech University's Divine Oduduru on May 8th. Running into a strong headwind of 3.1 meters per second, Oduduru ran 20.28 seconds to win the title by only one one-hundredth of a second over 100m contenter Andre Ewers of Florida State University.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 400 meters
Having set the indoor 400 m world record and having not lost a race all year, the University of Southern California's Michael Norman was considered the prohibitive favorite in the men's 400 m on June 8th. Before the race, he said his goal was to beat Olympic gold medalist Quincy Watts, his coach's personal best in the event, which would have also been a collegiate record.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 400 meters
Despite a fleeting rain, Norman ran conservatively in the beginning but pulled a late charge to win the race in 43.61 seconds, a new collegiate record and a time that made him among the 15 fastest performers of all time. The University of Auburn's Akeem Bloomfield also ran under 44 seconds and his teammate Nathon Allen ran 44.1 seconds, both among the top collegiate times in history, leading some to call the race the greatest collegiate 400m of all time.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 800 meters
The University of Texas at El Paso's Michael Saruni, coming off his collegiate record, was considered the favorite for the men's 800 m on June 8th. Texas A&M University's Devin Dixon led the field through a quick 400 m split, and soon Saruni and Penn State University's Isaiah Harris were both in contention with a lap to go. But with 300 meters to go, Saruni abruptly accelerated, leaving him with less energy on the final stretch as Harris and eventually Mississippi State University's Marco Arop passed him, with Harris taking his first NCAA title in a quick personal best time of 1:44.76.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 1500 meters
The University of New Mexico's Josh Kerr was the favorite for the men's 1500 m on June 8th on account of being the defending champion and  collegiate record-holder. Before the race, he had mentioned wanting to break his own collegiate record in the final on June 8th, but wet conditions didn't allow it as the field went out in 61 seconds for the first 400 m. In a late surge, the unheralded Ollie Hoare passed Kerr in the final 100 meters to become the University of Wisconsin's first champion in this event in over 40 years.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 5000 meters
Former indoor and outdoor 5000 m champions Justyn Knight and Grant Fisher were among the favorites in the men's 5000 m on June 8th. Despite finishing in the last three places in the 10,000 m two days prior to the race, Brigham Young University's three runners were also expected to factor on suspicion that they had purposefully ran the 10,000 m easily to avoid getting disqualified from the meet and focus solely on the 5000 m. Wet conditions and a championship-style tactical race prevented fast times as only one athlete in the field set a personal best.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 5000 meters
Ultimately, Stanford University senior Sean McGorty finished the strongest as he took the individual title, with his teammate Fisher being passed by Knight in the final ten meters. The strong finish of Stanford runners scored them sixteen points in this event, which contributed to briefly allowing Stanford to lead the overall team title standings.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 10,000 meters
With last year's champion Marc Scott having graduated, the University of Alabama's Vincent Kiprop, a Kenyan transfer from the NCAA Division II school Missouri Southern State University, was considered the favorite. He was helped in the final by fellow Kenyans and Alabama transfers Gilbert Kigen and Alfred Chelanga, who ran together at a quick pace of 4:22 for the first 1600 m. In the next two miles, the pace substantially slowed as Northern Arizona University runners Tyler Day and Matthew Baxter caught up and alternated the lead.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 10,000 meters
The field remained tightly packed, with the top eight athletes less than two seconds apart at 8000 m which Kiprop first passed in 22:59. With two laps remaining, the top six of Kiprop, Day, Baxter, the University of Michigan's Ben Flanagan, Jacob Thomson, and Dillon Maggard began to separate. Kiprop attempted to lengthen his lead with one lap to go, but Flanagan remained in tow and passed Kiprop in the final 50 meters. Directly at the conclusion of the race, he told ESPN cameras, "Where's my mom?"


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 10,000 meters
Flanagan's final time of 28:34 was a thirty-nine second improvement over his previous best of 29:13. Flanagan credited staying "as patient as possible" in part for his win. His victory was the first by a Canadian in this event at the NCAA championships since 2012, when Cam Levins won the title.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 110-meter hurdles
Defending champion Grant Holloway of the University of Florida won the men's 110 m hurdles on June 8th. Holloway had a fast start and built up a lead 50 meters into the race, but as he approached the finish both the University of Illinois' David Kendziera and Damion Thomas of Louisiana State University began to make up ground, leaning at the finish line but ultimately coming up short.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 400-meter hurdles
The men's 400 m hurdles took place on May 8th. The University of Southern California's Rai Benjamin attracted attention during the prelims by stepping twelve times (as compared to the standard thirteen or more) between each hurdle, a feat that only world record holder Kevin Young had notably achieved before. During the final, which took place soon after Southern California teammate Michael Norman set the collegiate record in the flat 400 m, Benjamin stuttered at one of the early hurdles but ultimately pulled away from the field late to run a time of 47.02 seconds.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 400-meter hurdles
The time was not only a personal best by nearly a full second, but it was also a championship record, Hayward Field facility record, national record for Antigua and Barbuda, an NCAA collegiate record, and the number-two performance of all time, behind only Kevin Young's 46-second performance. The time came as a surprise to many who thought that the wet conditions and puddles on the track were not conducive to running fast times.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 3000-meter steeplechase
There was no clear favorite in the men's 3000 m steeplechase, as the collegiate yearly leader did not qualify and no scoring athletes returned from last year's final. Most expected the race to be tactical due to wet conditions, but the University of Houston's Brian Barraza gapped the field early, taking the race out at an 8:20 pace for the first few laps -- a time that was over ten seconds faster than any of the athletes' personal bests.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 3000-meter steeplechase
The frontrunning strategy seemed to have been working as Barazza still held a considerable lead going in to the last lap, but a fall on the one of the last barriers allowed the University of Minnesota's Obsa Ali to pass and win the race in a personal-best time of 8:32 minutes. Barraza had trouble getting up after his fall, and ultimately finished tenth. As Houston was considered by some to be a contender for the team title, Barazza's bold race strategy was considered foolish by some but brave by others. After the race, Barraza's coach Steve Magness said that Barraza felt dazed after the race, and that he was considering being checked for a concussion. The fall was later featured on ESPN's SportsCenter.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 4 x 100-meter relay
Despite rain on the track, the University of Houston won the men's 4x100 m in a new collegiate-record time of 38.17 seconds. The prior record had stood for 30 years.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 4 x 400-meter relay
Though the 4 x 400 m was the final men's event of the championships, the team title was already decided as the University of Georgia's points lead was too great for any other team to overtake them in the relays. Nevertheless, the University of Southern California won the event and set a new collegiate record of 2:59.00 minutes.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's 4 x 400-meter relay
The four-man team included both new NCAA record-holders Michael Norman (in the flat 400 m) and Rai Benjamin (in the 400 m hurdles), and both athletes ran under 44 seconds for their legs to have the two fastest split times in the field. Despite Norman having held the third-fastest split time in history with a 43.03 split at the NCAA West Regional, it was Benjamin who had the faster split of 43.6 seconds in the race on June 8th. Norman, who was the anchor, ran largely alone for his leg as he received the baton in the lead and the team won by nearly a full second.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's long jump
Zach Baile of Ohio State University won the men's long jump on June 6th in a personal best distance of 8.37 m (27 ft 5+1⁄2 in).


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's triple jump
Tahar Triki of Texas A&M University won the men's triple jump on June 8th.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's high jump
Kansas State University's Tejaswin Shankar won the men's high jump on June 8th.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's pole vault
The University of South Dakota's Chris Nilsen set an NCAA championship record of 5.83 m (19 ft 1+1⁄2 in) to win the men's pole vault, which took place on June 6th.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's shot put
After winning the men's hammer throw earlier in the day, the University of Georgia's Denzel Comenentia won the shot put on June 6th with a throw of 20.61 m (67 ft 7+1⁄4 in).


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's discus throw
Luke Vaughn of Memphis University won the men's discus throw on June 8th.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's javelin throw
Mississippi State University's Anderson Peters set a championship record of 82.82 m (271 ft 8 in) to win the men's javelin throw on June 6th.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Men's hammer throw
The men's hammer throw took place on June 6th. University of Georgia junior Denzel Comenentia set a personal best to win his first NCAA championship.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Men's events, Decathlon
The men's decathlon began on June 6th. Only 18 of the 24 competitors completed the event. British athlete Tim Duckworth of the University of Kentucky led the field by a wide margin after the first five events on June 6th, and continued to perform well in the remaining events before sustaining an injury on June 7th. He remained in competition despite the injury, and due to his prior lead was able to win the overall points table despite finishing last place in the final 1500 m event.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Women's 100 meters
Coming off a 10.91 time in the prelims that was the fourth-best mark in NCAA history, Aleia Hobbs of Louisiana State University was favored to win the women's 100 m on June 9th. Heavy rain prevented her from besting that time as she won the event by more than 0.2 seconds, and Hobbs said after the race that the rain was so pervasive that she could not see the track while she was running.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Women's 200 meters
The women's 200 m took place on June 9th. Harvard University's Gabby Thomas, the indoor collegiate record holder in this event, faced Lynna Irby of Georgia University, a freshman who had set the meet record in the 400 m. Facing a strong headwind, both of the favorites took the lead at the start but were slowed substantially on the home stretch as the University of Southern California's Angelerne Annelus passed them both from lane 8, the widest lane, to win the race in 22.76 seconds. After the race, Annelus said she was in shock because she had not even been expected to make the final.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Women's 400 meters
University of Georgia freshman Lynna Irby won the women's 400 m in a new meet-record time of 49.80 seconds on June 9th. The time was the number-two NCAA performance of all time in this event.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Women's 800 meters
Texas A&M University freshman and high school record-holder Sammy Watson won the women's 800 m on June 9th. The race took place during intermittent heavy rain accounting for slower times, and Watson had to dive at the line exhausted to hold off Middle Tennessee State University's Abike Egbeniyi.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Women's 10,000 meters
The women's 10,000 m was held on June 7th. Defending outdoor 5000 m and 2016 cross country champion Karissa Schweizer of the University of Missouri was favored by some to take the title in her first attempt at the distance at the championships, but she also faced the previous year's 10,000 m champion Charlotte Taylor from the University of San Francisco.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Women's 10,000 meters
A brisk pace set in part by Taylor put the athletes in reach of the NCAA meet record, and soon Schweizer, Taylor, Notre Dame's Anna Rohrer, University of Kansas junior Sharon Lokedi from Kenya, and former NCAA 3000m steeplechase runner-up Alice Wright, from the University of New Mexico, led the race at times alternating the lead. In the end, Lokedi pulled strongly away from the field in the final lap to win in a new championship record time of 32:09.20, followed by University of Louisville freshman Dorcas Wasike, who moved up the field in the final stages to take second.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Women's 10,000 meters
Lokedi had qualified for six NCAA track championship events before and never finished worse than sixth, but had never won an individual NCAA title before the race. Thanks to the fast pace, all of the first six athletes broke the old NCAA meet record, which had been set by Sylvia Mosqueda in 1988.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Women's 3000-meter steeplechase
On June 9th, Boise State University sophomore Allie Ostrander won the women's 3000 m steeplechase, defending her title from last year's race. She described her strategy as being "relaxed for the first couple of laps and then winding it up," helped by Syracuse University's Paige Stoner who also pushed the pace. She became the first NCAA Division I athlete to win back-to-back steeplechase titles as an underclassman, and the second two-time national champion in Boise State Broncos history.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Women's long jump
Former American record holder in the triple jump, Keturah Orji of the University of Georgia, won the women's long jump on June 7th.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Women's pole vault
University of Kentucky junior Olivia Gruver won the women's pole vault on June 7th in a personal best mark of 4.55 m (14 ft 11 in).


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Women's shot put
Multiple-time collegiate record holder Maggie Ewen of Arizona State University won the women's shot put on June 7th.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Women's javelin throw
Australian athlete Mackenzie Little won the women's javelin throw on June 7th representing Stanford University.


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Women's hammer throw
University of Mississippi senior Janeah Stewart won the women's hammer throw on June 7th in a personal-best mark of 72.92 m (239 ft 2 in).


2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Results, Women's events, Heptathlon
The women's heptathlon began on June 8th. 20 of the 24 competitors completed the event. The competition was close throughout, but Canadian athlete Georgia Ellenwood of the University of Wisconsin–Madison won the event by scoring more points in the 800 m over second-placer Louisa Grauvogel of the University of Georgia.


2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament
The 2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament was held from May 18 through June 6, 2018 as the final part of the 2018 NCAA Division I softball season. Thirty-two teams were awarded automatic bids as champions of their conferences, and the remaining 32 were selected at-large by the NCAA Division I softball selection committee. The tournament culminated with eight teams playing in the 2018 Women's College World Series at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City.


2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament
This was the first year since the 2010 Women's College World Series that neither the Florida Gators nor the Oklahoma Sooners made the Championship Series. The Florida State Seminoles played in their first Women's College World Series Championship Series and became the first ACC team to make the Championship Series. The Washington Huskies made their fourth appearance in the Championship Series.


2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Automatic bids
The Big West, Mountain West, Pac-12, and West Coast Conference bids were awarded to the regular-season champion. All other conferences have the automatic bid go to the conference tournament winner.


2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, National seeds
16 National Seeds were announced on the Selection Show Sunday, May 13 at 10 p.m. EDT on ESPN2. The 16 national seeds host the Regionals. Teams in italics advanced to Super Regionals. Teams in bold advance to Women's College World Series.


2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, National seeds
1. Oregon (47–7)2. Florida (50–8)3. UCLA (50–4)4. Oklahoma (50–3)5. Washington (44–8)6. Florida State (47–10)7. Georgia (43–11)8. Arizona State (43–11)


2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, National seeds
9. South Carolina (45–14)10. Tennessee (45–12)11. LSU (41–14)12. Alabama (33–18)13. Arkansas (39–15)14. Arizona (40–14)15. Texas A&M (40–16)16. Kentucky (31–19)


2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Regionals and Super Regionals
The Regionals took place May 17–20, 2018. One regional- Eugene, Oregon, took place May 17–19, 2018, because of BYU's no-Sunday-play policy; all other regionals occurred May 18–20, 2018. The Super Regionals took place from May 24–27, 2018.


2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Women's College World Series
The Women's College World Series was held May 31 through June 6, 2018, in Oklahoma City.


2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Women's College World Series, All-tournament Team
The following players were members of the Women's College World Series All-Tournament Team.


2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Record by conference
The columns RF, SR, WS, NS, F, and NC respectively stand for the Regional Finals, Super Regionals, College World Series Teams, National Semi-Finals, Finals, and National Champion.


2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Media coverage, Radio
Westwood One provided nationwide radio coverage of the championship series. It was streamed online at westwoodsports.com, through TuneIn, and on SiriusXM. John Sadak made his softball radio debut and joined returning analyst Leah Amico for Westwood One.


2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Media coverage, Television
ESPN holds exclusive rights to the tournament. They aired games across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SEC Network, and ESPN3. For the second time in the history of the women's softball tournament ESPN covered every regional.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game
The 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game was the final game of the 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament. The game was played on April 1, 2018, at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish defeated the Mississippi State Bulldogs to win their second national championship.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game
The game was won on a made basket by Arike Ogunbowale with 0.1 seconds left on the clock—she made a similar shot with 1.0 second in the semifinal to defeat Connecticut, earning Notre Dame a berth in the championship.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Mississippi State
The Mississippi State Bulldogs were led by sixth-year head coach Vic Schaefer. The Bulldogs opened their season by winning all 15 of their non-conference games, including three wins in the Cancún Challenge and two wins as a part of the Duel in the Desert (played in Paradise, Nevada), adding a win against the No. 9 Oregon Ducks.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Mississippi State
The Bulldogs entered SEC play ranked No. 5 in the nation, and never dropped below that ranking, as they finished the regular season 30–0, 16–0 in SEC play, including four wins over ranked conference opponents: No. 6 Tennessee, No. 15 Missouri, defending national champions No. 7 South Carolina, and No. 17 Texas A&M. The Bulldogs were seeded first in the SEC tournament, where they defeated (9) Kentucky and (5) Texas A&M en route to the championship game, where they fell to (2) South Carolina, 51–62 for their first loss of the season.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Mississippi State
The Bulldogs received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, where they were seeded first in the Kansas City regional. In the tournament, Mississippi State defeated (16) Nicholls State, (9) Oklahoma State, (4) NC State, and (3) UCLA en route to the Final Four, where they beat (1) Louisville in overtime, putting their record at 37–1.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Notre Dame
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish were led by 31st-year head coach Muffet McGraw. The Fighting Irish opened their season by winning eleven of their first twelve games, including three wins in the Gulf Coast Showcase and a win in the ACC–Big Ten Women's Challenge, with three of those four being ranked opponents, most notably defending champions No. 3 South Carolina. The Irish suffered their first loss in their eighth game of the season, a matchup with No. 1 Connecticut in the Jimmy V Classic. Notre Dame entered ACC play 11–1, ranked No. 2 in the nation.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Notre Dame
The Irish performed exceptionally in conference, finishing the regular season 27–2, with fifteen wins from sixteen ACC games, including three wins against ranked conference opponents (No. 8 Florida State, No. 19 Duke, and No. 21 NC State) and one win against a ranked non-conference opponent (No. 8 Tennessee).


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Notre Dame
The Irish's only other loss of the season came against No. 3 Louisville in their fifth conference game; Notre Dame finished the season having won their last twelve games and were seeded second in the ACC tournament, where they defeated (7) Virginia and (3) Florida State en route to the title game, where they once again fell to Louisville. The Irish were seeded first as an at-large bid in the NCAA Tournament's Spokane Regional. On their run to the title game, Notre Dame defeated (16) Cal State Northridge, (9) Villanova, (4) Texas A&M, and (2) Oregon to get to the Final Four, where they faced and defeated (1) Connecticut in overtime via a made basket by Arike Ogunbowale with 1.0 seconds left.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Notre Dame
The Irish reached this point despite a severely depleted roster with only seven scholarship players by the start of the NCAA tournament—four players missed part or all of the season to torn ACLs. Brianna Turner, an All-American forward in 2016–17, suffered the injury in the 2017 NCAA tournament and missed the entire season. Senior guard Mychael Johnson was lost in a preseason practice, freshman center Mikayla Vaughn after six games, and starting senior point guard Lili Thompson was lost on New Year's Eve. Before the title game, McGraw told media, "I didn't think we'd have more ACL tears than losses. I think it's just an amazing accomplishment for this team and the resilience they've shown all year."


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Media coverage
The Championship Game was televised in the United States by ESPN. Adam Amin gave the play-by-play, with Kara Lawson and Rebecca Lobo as the color analysts, and Holly Rowe as the sideline reporter. Maria Taylor, Lobo, Nell Fortner and Andy Landers provided studio coverage.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament began on March 16, 2018, and concluded with the national championship game on Sunday, April 1. The Final Four was played at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. This is the third time that the women's Final Four was played in Ohio after previously being held in Cincinnati in 1997 and Cleveland in 2007 and the first time that the women's Final Four was played in Columbus. For only the fourth time in the tournament’s 37-year history, all four of the number one seeds made it to the Final Four (1989, 2012, 2015).


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament
Tennessee continued its record streak of making every NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament at 37 consecutive appearances. Connecticut also continued its record streak of 11 consecutive Final Four appearances.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure
Pending any changes to the format, a total of 64 teams will enter the 2016 tournament. 32 automatic bids shall be awarded to each program that wins their conference's tournament. The remaining 36 bids are "at-large", with selections extended by the NCAA Selection Committee. The tournament is split into four regional tournaments, and each regional has teams seeded from 1 to 16, with the committee ostensibly making every region as comparable to the others as possible[citation needed]. The top-seeded team in each region plays the #16 team, the #2 team plays the #15, etc. (meaning where the two seeds add up to 17, that team will be assigned to play another).


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure
The basis for the subregionals returned to the approach used between 1982 and 2002; the top sixteen teams, as chosen in the bracket selection process, hosted the first two rounds on campus.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure
The Selection Committee will also seed the entire field from 1 to 64.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, 2018 NCAA Tournament schedule and venues
The first two rounds, also referred to as the subregionals, were played at the sites of the top 16 seeds, as was done in 2016 and 2017. The following are the sites selected to host the last four rounds of the 2018 tournament.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Subregionals Tournament and automatic qualifiers
Selections for the 2018 NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship were announced at 7 p.m. Eastern time, Monday, March 12 via ESPN.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Subregionals Tournament and automatic qualifiers
The basis for the subregionals returned to the approach used between 1982 and 2002; the top sixteen teams, as chosen in the bracket selection process, hosted the first two rounds on campus.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Subregionals Tournament and automatic qualifiers
A total of 64 teams entered the 2018 tournament. 32 automatic bids teams were given to teams that won their conference tournament. The remaining 32 teams were granted "at-large" bids, which were extended by the NCAA Selection Committee.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Subregionals Tournament and automatic qualifiers
The Selection Committee also seeded the entire field from 1 to 64.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Subregionals Tournament and automatic qualifiers, Automatic qualifiers
The following teams automatically qualified for the 2018 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's tournament.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Bracket
All times are listed as Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4)* – Denotes overtime period


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Final Four
During the Final Four round, regardless of the seeds of the participating teams, the champion of the top overall top seed's region (Connecticut's Albany Region) plays against the champion of the fourth-ranked top seed's region (Notre Dame's Spokane Region), and the champion of the second overall top seed's region (Mississippi State's Kansas City Region) plays against the champion of the third-ranked top seed's region (Louisville's Lexington Region).


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Television
ESPN had US television rights to all games during the tournament. During the first and second rounds, ESPN aired select games nationally on ESPN2, ESPNU, and ESPNews. All other games aired regionally on ESPN, ESPN2, or ESPN3 and were streamed online via WatchESPN. Most of the nation got whip-a-round coverage during this time, which allowed ESPN to rotate between the games and focus the nation on the game that had the closest score.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Radio
Westwood One had exclusive radio rights to the entire tournament. Teams participating in the Regional Finals, Final Four, and Championship were allowed to have their own local broadcasts, but they weren’t allowed to stream those broadcasts online.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship
The 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship is the 37th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of Division I NCAA women's college lacrosse. The semifinal and championship rounds will be played at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium in Stony Brook, New York from May 25–27, 2018. All other rounds were played at campus sites, usually at the home field of the higher-seeded team, from May 11–20.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament field
All NCAA Division I women's lacrosse programs were eligible for this championship, and a total of 27 teams were invited to participate. 14 teams qualified automatically by winning their conference tournaments while the remaining 13 teams qualified at-large based on their regular season records.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament field, Seeds
1. Maryland (18-1)2. North Carolina (15-3)3. James Madison (18-1)4. Boston College (19-1)5. Stony Brook (19-0)6. Florida (16-3)7. Towson (15-4)8. Loyola (15-4)


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament
The 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament (also known as the 2018 Women's College Cup) was the 37th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division I women's collegiate soccer. The semifinals and championship game were played at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina from November 30 – December 2, 2018 while the preceding rounds were played at various sites across the country during November 2018.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament, Qualification
All Division I women's soccer programs were eligible to qualify for the tournament. 28 teams received automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments, 3 teams received automatic bids by claiming the conference regular season crown (Ivy League, Pac-12 Conference, and West Coast Conference don't hold conference tournaments), and an additional 33 teams earned at-large bids based on their regular season records.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament, Statistics, Goalscorers
There were 190 goals scored in 63 matches, for an average of 3.02 goals per match.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
The 2018 NCAA Women's Division I Swimming and Diving Championships were contested March 14-17, 2018 at the 37th annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of Division I women's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
This year's events were hosted by Ohio State University at the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion in Columbus, Ohio.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
Stanford went back-to-back in national titles for the first time since 1996, and their tenth overall title. They finished 220 points ahead of California. The Cardinal scored in every single event except for the 1 meter diving and the platform diving. Stanford also became the third team to sweep all five relays at an NCAA Championship.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
Ella Eastin of Stanford was awarded the 2018 CSCAA Swimmer of the Year with her victories in the 200 IM, 400 IM, and 200 butterfly. Her wins in the 200 IM and 400 IM were both American records. She was also a part of two winning relays, the 800 free relay (along with Katie Ledecky, Katie Drabot, and Brooke Forde), and the 400 free relay (along with Drabot, Simone Manuel, and Janet Hu).


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
Stanford's Greg Meehan was awarded the 2018 CSCAA Division 1 Women's Coach of the Year for the second year, coaching Simone Manuel, Ella Eastin, Katie Ledecky, and Ally Howe to individual wins.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament
The 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament began on November 29, 2018 and concluded on December 15 at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The tournament field was announced on November 25, 2018. Stanford beat Nebraska in the final to claim their eighth national championship.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Record by conference
The columns R32, S16, E8, F4, CM, and NC respectively stand for the Round of 32, Sweet Sixteen, Elite Eight, Final Four, Championship Match, and National Champion.


2018 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Media Coverage
First and second round matches will be streamed or televised by local school RSN's or streaming services. The 3rd round to the finals will all be streamed by WatchESPN or televised by ESPN Networks.


2018 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships
The 2018 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships took place from March 15 to March 17 in Cleveland, Ohio, at the Quicken Loans Arena. The tournament went into its 88th NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships, and featured 62 teams across that level.


2018 NCAA Division I baseball rankings
The following human polls make up the 2018 NCAA Division I men's baseball rankings. The USAToday/ESPN Coaches Poll is voted on by a panel of 31 Division I baseball coaches. The Baseball America poll is voted on by staff members of the Baseball America magazine. These polls, along with the Perfect Game USA poll, rank the top 25 teams nationally. Collegiate Baseball and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association rank the top 30 teams nationally.


2018 NCAA Division I baseball rankings, Collegiate Baseball
The Preseason poll ranked the top 40 teams in the nation. Teams not listed above are: 31. San Diego; 32. Sam Houston State; 33. Texas A&M; 34. Kent State; 35. Auburn; 36. Arizona; 37. Stetson; 38. Ole Miss; 39 Nebraska; 40. Michigan.


2018 NCAA Division I baseball rankings, NCBWA
The Preseason poll ranked the top 35 teams in the nation. Teams not listed above are: 31. Dallas Baptist; 32. South Carolina; 33. Oklahoma; 34. LSU; 35. Missouri State.


2018 NCAA Division I baseball season
The 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level, began in February 2018. The season progressed through the regular season, many conference tournaments and championship series, and concluded with the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament and 2018 College World Series. The College World Series, consisting of the eight remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament and held annually in Omaha, Nebraska at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha, ended on June 28, 2018.


2018 NCAA Division I baseball season, Realignment and format changes
The 2018 season was also the last for two other teams in their then-current conferences. Both teams moved between the same two conferences, but in opposite directions.


2018 NCAA Division I baseball season, Realignment and format changes
Finally, one other Division I team changed its institutional and athletic identities immediately after the 2017–18 season. Indiana University and Purdue University dissolved Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) on July 1, 2018. IPFW's academic programs in health sciences transferred to the IU system as Indiana University Fort Wayne; all remaining academic programs were transferred to the Purdue system as Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW). From 2018–19, the former IPFW athletic program represents only PFW, and its Summit League membership was assumed by PFW. Shortly before the dissolution took effect, but after the school's baseball season had finished, the athletic program announced that it would henceforth be known as the Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons.


2018 NCAA Division I baseball season, Realignment and format changes, NCAA Tournament
For the first time, the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament seeded the top 16 teams, rather than only the top 8 teams as had been the practice since 1999. This ensures that the regional featuring the top-seeded team is paired with the regional hosted by the 16th-seeded team, where in the past Super Regionals were paired generally along geographical lines.


2018 NCAA Division I baseball season, Conference standings, Conference winners and tournaments
Of the 31 Division I athletic conferences that sponsor baseball, 29 end their regular seasons with a single-elimination tournament or a double elimination tournament. The teams in each conference that win their regular season title are given the number one seed in each tournament. Two conferences, the Big West and Pac-12, do not hold a conference tournament. The winners of these tournaments, plus the Big West and Pac-12 regular-season champions, receive automatic invitations to the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2018 NCAA Division I baseball season, College World Series
The 2018 College World Series began on June 16 in Omaha, Nebraska.


2018 NCAA Division I baseball season, Coaching changes
This table lists programs that changed head coaches at any point from the first day of the 2018 season until the day before the first day of the 2019 season.


2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season
The 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season was the 60th season of NCAA championship men's college soccer. The regular season began on August 24, 2018 and continued into the first weekend of November 2018. The season culminated with the four-team College Cup at Meredith Field at Harder Stadium in Santa Barbara, California, December 7–9, 2018. There were 206 teams in men's Division I competition. The Maryland Terrapins won their fourth NCAA title, defeating the Akron Zips 1–0.


2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Changes from 2017, New programs
Mount St. Mary's University reinstated their men's soccer program, which had been dormant since the end of the 2012 season, for the 2018 season.


2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Changes from 2017, New programs
The California Baptist Lancers began the transition from Division II to Division I and the Western Athletic Conference in 2018–19.


2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Changes from 2017, New programs
The UC San Diego Tritons will begin the transition from Division II to Division I and will join the Big West Conference in 2020–21.


2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Changes from 2017, New programs
The Merrimack Warriors will begin the transition from Division II to Division I and will join the Northeast Conference in 2019–20.


2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Changes from 2017, Discontinued programs
Hartwick College, the only Division III school competing in Division I men's soccer for some years moved to Division III with the school's other sports.


2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Changes from 2017, Discontinued programs
Despite the program's many successes, the University of New Mexico's Board of Regents, for economic reasons, voted to discontinue the men's soccer program, along with three other sports teams, after the 2018 season.


2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Changes from 2017, Conference realignment
NOTE 1: The Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners will move from the Western Athletic Conference to the Big West Conference on July 1, 2020.


2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Changes from 2017, Conference realignment
NOTE 2: The team formerly known as the Fort Wayne Mastodons officially changed its athletic identity to the Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons on June 18, 2018, shortly before the creation of Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW). Previously, the PFW athletic program represented Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW), but the Indiana University and Purdue University systems agreed to dissolve IPFW on July 1, 2018, with each system establishing a separate Fort Wayne campus. The IPFW athletic program transferred to PFW, representing only that institution, and remains a member of Division I and the Summit League.


2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Changes from 2017, Conference realignment
NOTE 3: After six years of divisional play, with home-and-home series within the divisions, the Big West Conference teams will be playing a single, eight-team, seven game schedule. This move comes two years before Cal State Bakersfield moves in to make the Big West a nine team league.


2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Changes from 2017, Conference realignment
NOTE 4: Central Arkansas announced on September 6 that its men's soccer program would leave its associate membership in the Missouri Valley Conference after the 2018 season and join the Sun Belt Conference as an Associate Member.


2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Regular season
The regular season began on August 24, 2018 and ended in early November 2018.


2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Regular season, Major upsets
In this list, a "major upset" is defined as a game won by a team ranked 10 or more spots lower or an unranked team that defeats a team ranked #15 or higher.


2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Postseason, Conference winners and tournaments
† = A & C denote the Atlantic and Coastal divisions of the ACC.


2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Postseason, Postseason awards, All-Americans
On December 6, 2018; United Soccer Coaches announced the All-America teams for the 2018 season.


2018 NCAA Division I softball season
The 2018 NCAA Division I softball season, play of college softball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level, began in February 2018. The season progressed through the regular season, many conference tournaments and championship series, and concluded with the 2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament and 2018 Women's College World Series. The Women's College World Series, consisting of the eight remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament and held annually in Oklahoma City at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium, ended on June 4, 2018.


2018 NCAA Division I softball season, National Invitational Softball Championship
Loyola Marymount Lions defeated the UC Riverside Highlanders in the championship; Hannah Bandimere was named MVP for the series.


2018 NCAA Division I softball season, Women's College World Series
The 2018 Women's College World Series began on June 1–4 in Oklahoma City.


2018 NCAA Division I softball season, Records
NCAA Division I single game combined strikeouts:46 – Brianna Jones, Southern Illinois Salukis (20) & Morgan Florey, Evansville Purple Aces (26); April 28, 2018 (16 innings)


2018 NCAA Division I softball season, Records
Senior class single game walks:6 – Ivie Drake, Georgia State Panthers; April 18, 2018


2018 NCAA Division I softball season, Records
Senior class 7 inning single game strikeouts:21 – Alexis Osorio, Alabama Crimson Tide; March 10, 2018


2018 NCAA Division I softball season, Records
Freshman class saves:15 – Taylor Bauman, Florida Gulf Coast Eagles


2018 NCAA Division I women's soccer rankings
Three polls make up the 2018 NCAA Division I women's soccer rankings, the United Soccer Coaches Poll, the Soccer America Poll, and the Top Drawer Soccer Poll. They represent the ranking system for the 2018 NCAA Division I women's soccer season.


2018 NCAA Division I women's soccer season
The 2018 NCAA Division I women's soccer season will be the 37th season of NCAA women's college soccer. The Stanford Cardinal are defending national champions.


2018 NCAA Division I women's soccer season, Preseason, Conference realignment
Six schools joined new conferences this season. Four moved their entire athletic programs to new conferences, two NCAA Division II members that sponsor women's soccer announced during the 2016–17 offseason that they would upgrade their athletic programs to Division I effective in 2018, and one began play in its current all-sports league. One conference announced that it would no longer use divisions for its women's soccer seasonal competition.


2018 NCAA Division I women's soccer season, Preseason, Conference realignment
The Mid-American Conference previously divided its teams into an East and West Division. However, in 2018 the league discontinued this and all teams were considered to be in one division.


2018 NCAA Division I women's soccer season, Season Overview, Major upsets
Games won by a team ranked 10 or more spots lower or an unranked squad that defeats a team ranked No. 15 or higher are considered "major upsets". United Soccer Coaches rankings are used for this list.


2018 NCAA Division I women's volleyball rankings
The 2018 NCAA Division I women's volleyball rankings is a human poll designated to rank the top 25 women's college volleyball programs at the NCAA Division I level. The official rankings recognized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) are determined by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA), and have released rankings for this competition since 1982. The rankings are updated weekly at the beginning of the season and finalized at the conclusion of the 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament.


2018 NCAA Division II Baseball Tournament
The 2018 NCAA Division II baseball tournament decided the champion of baseball in NCAA Division II for the 2018 season. The Augustana Vikings of South Dakota claimed their first national title. In the final, Augustana defeated the Columbus State Cougars. The Cougars made their eighth appearance in the College World Series, having won the event in 2002 and two other times finished as runner up.


2018 NCAA Division II Baseball Tournament, Regionals, Central Regional–Magnolia, Arkansas
Hosted by Southern Arkansas at Goodheart Field at Walker Stadium.


2018 NCAA Division II Baseball Tournament, College World Series, Results, Bracket
All Games Played at USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, North Carolina


2018 NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships
The 2018 NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships was the 61st annual NCAA Men's Division II Cross Country Championship and the 38th annual NCAA Women's Division II Cross Country Championship to determine the team and individual national champions of NCAA Division II men's and women's collegiate cross country running in the United States. In all, four different titles were contested: men's and women's individual and team championships. Results were track and field results reporting system.


2018 NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships
In the men's 10k, Marcelo Laguera of CSU–Pueblo took home the individual title in 31:46.4, while Grand Valley State University won the team title, scoring 89 points and defeating second-placed Colorado School of Mines (99) and third-placed Western Colorado University (117). In the women's 6k, Sarah Berger of the Grand Valley State University won the individual title in 22:07.7, while Grand Valley State University won the team title with 41 points, beating second-placed University of Mary (83) and third-placed Adams State University (90).


2018 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game
The 2018 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game was a postseason college football game that determined a national champion in NCAA Division II for the 2018 season. It was played at McKinney ISD Stadium in McKinney, Texas, on December 15, 2018, with kickoff at 4:00 p.m. EST (3:00 p.m. local CST), and television coverage on ESPNU.


2018 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game, Teams
The participants of the 2018 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game were the finalists of the 2018 Division II Playoffs, which began with four 7-team brackets to determine super region champions, who then qualified for the national semifinals. The game featured the winners of those national semifinal games: No. 3 seed Ferris State and No. 1 seed Valdosta State. This was the first meeting between the two teams. This was Ferris State's first championship game appearance, and Valdosta State's fourth; the Blazers were 3–1 in previous appearances.


2018 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game, Teams, National semifinals
Super region champions were seeded 1 to 4 for the national semifinals.


2018 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2018 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament is the 62nd annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college basketball in the United States. Featuring sixty-four teams, it began on March 9, and concluded with the championship game on March 24.


2018 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
The eight regional winners met in the Elite Eight for the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds. For the second consecutive year, the Elite Eight was held at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.


2018 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualification
A total of 64 bids are available for each tournament: 24 automatic bids (awarded to the champions of the twenty-two Division II conferences) and 40 at-large bids.


2018 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualification
The sixty-four bids are allocated evenly among the eight NCAA-designated regions (Atlantic, Central, East, Midwest, South, South Central, Southeast, and West), each of which contains three of the twenty-four Division II conferences that sponsor men's basketball. Each region consists of three automatic qualifiers (the teams who won their respective conference tournaments) and five at-large bids (which are awarded regardless of conference affiliation).


2018 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualification
Five teams qualified for their first NCAA Division II tournament in 2018: Ohio Dominican, Point Loma Nazarene, Saint Martin's, Southern Nazarene, and West Florida.


2018 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship
The 2018 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship was the 47th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division II men's collegiate soccer in the United States. The semifinals and championship game were played at Highmark Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from November 29–December 1, 2018, while the preceding rounds were played at various sites across the country during November 2018.


2018 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship
The Barry Buccaneers defeated West Chester, 2–1, in the DII College Cup Final. James Kirkham and Steven Kosmala scored goals in the final 12 minutes of the second half to give the Buccaneers the school's first men's soccer national title. Barry, who finished the season 16-4-3, were coached by Steve McCrath.


2018 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2018 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament involved 64 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the NCAA Division II women's college basketball national champion. It began on March 9, 2018, and concluded with the championship game on March 23, 2018.


2018 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
The first three rounds were hosted by top-seeded teams in regional play. The eight regional winners met for the quarterfinal and semifinals, better known as the "Elite Eight" and "Final Four" respectively, and National Championship game at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.


2018 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
The Central Missouri Jennies defeated the Ashland Eagles, 66–52, to win the championship and end Ashland's 73-game winning streak.


2018 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, Finals
Quarterfinals, semifinals and finals were hosted at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.


2018 NCAA Division II football rankings
The 2018 NCAA Division II football rankings are from the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA). This is for the 2018 season.


2018 NCAA Division II football season
The 2018 NCAA Division II football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level, began on August 30, 2018 and ended with the Division II championship on December 15, 2018 at the McKinney Independent School District Stadium in McKinney, Texas, hosted by the Lone Star Conference.


2018 NCAA Division II football season
Originally, the game was awarded to another bid by the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association and Children's Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas but, due to field repairs, that contract was terminated in September 2018.


2018 NCAA Division II football season
Texas A&M–Commerce Lions were the defending champions from the previous season.


2018 NCAA Division II football season, Playoffs
The 2018 NCAA Division II Football Championship was the 46th edition of the Division II playoffs. The playoffs began on November 17 and concluded with the championship game on December 15.


2018 NCAA Division II football season, Playoffs
The field consisted of 28 teams, seven from each of the four super regions. The participants in each region were determined by the regional rankings; if a conference's highest-ranked team was ranked in the top nine, that team qualified via the "earned access" provision, and all other participants were selected directly from the rankings. The top seed in each region received a first-round bye. After the quarterfinals, the regional winners were reseeded one through four, with No. 1 meeting No. 4 in the semifinals and No. 2 meeting No. 3.


2018 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament
The 2018 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament was played at the end of the 2018 NCAA Division III baseball season to determine the 43rd national champion of college baseball at the NCAA Division III level. The tournament concluded with eight teams competing at Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute, Wisconsin for the championship. Eight regional tournaments were held to determine the participants in the World Series. Regional tournaments were contested in double-elimination format, with three regions consisting of six teams, and five consisting of eight, for a total of 58 teams participating in the tournament, up from 56 in 2017. The tournament champion was Texas-Tyler, who defeated Texas Lutheran in the championship series in two games.


2018 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament
This was the final DIII World Series contested with the current regional format and World Series location.


2018 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, Regionals, Midwest Regional
Frank Wade Municipal Stadium-Duluth, MN (Host: The College of Saint Scholastica)


2018 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, Regionals, New York Regional
Leo Pinckney Field at Falcon Park-Auburn, NY (Host: State University of New York College at Cortland)


2018 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, World Series
Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium-Grand Chute, WI (Host: University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh/Lawrence University/Fox Cities Convention and Visitors Bureau)


2018 NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships
The 2018 NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships was the 46th annual NCAA Men's Division III Cross Country Championship and the 38th annual NCAA Women's Division III Cross Country Championship to determine the team and individual national champions of NCAA Division III men's and women's collegiate cross country running in the United States. In all, four different titles were contested: men's and women's individual and team championships.


2018 NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships
The women's race team title was won by Washington University, their 2nd title. Washington narrowly edged out defending champion Johns Hopkins by a single point, making it the narrowest margin of victory since 1987. The women's individual title was won by junior Paige Lawler of Washington University, becoming the first cross country individual champion in program history. In the men's race, the team title was won by North Central, their 19th title (and 3rd in a row).


2018 NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships
The Cardinals 43 point victory was the 3rd lowest winning score in the history of the men's race (and the lowest score since 2006). The men's individual title went to Dhruvil Patel of North Central, the 8th Cardinal to win the individual men's title in program history, and the first since 2000.


2018 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2018 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament was the 44th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division III college basketball in the United States. Featuring sixty-four teams, it began on March 2, 2018, following the 2017–18 season, and concluded with the championship game on March 17, 2018.


2018 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
Once again, the national semifinal and championship rounds were held at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Virginia.


2018 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
Nebraska Wesleyan defeated Wisconsin–Oshkosh in the final, 78–72, to win their first national title. Cooper Cook was voted the MVP.


2018 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualifying teams, Automatic bids (43)
The following 43 teams were automatic qualifiers for the 2018 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's automatic bid.


2018 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualifying teams, At-large bids (21)
The following 21 teams were awarded qualification for the 2018 NCAA field by the NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Committee. The committee evaluated teams on the basis of their win-loss percentage, strength of schedule, head-to-head results, results against common opponents, and results against teams included in the NCAA's final regional rankings.


2018 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2018 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 2017–18 season, the 35th such tournament in NCAA history. It concluded with St. Norbert defeating Salve Regina in the championship game 3-2 in double overtime. All First Round and Quarterfinal matchups were held at home team venues, while all succeeding games were played at the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York.


2018 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams
Twelve teams qualified for the tournament in the following ways: (Pool A) seven teams received bids as a result of being conference tournament champions from conferences that possessed an automatic bid. (Pool B) one team was selected from two conferences that did not possess an automatic bid. (Pool C) four teams from conferences that possessed an automatic bid received at-large invitations based upon their records.


2018 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The tournament featured four rounds of play. All rounds were Single-game elimination.


2018 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
Because at least four western teams qualified, the tournament was arranged so that there were two eastern and two western quarterfinal brackets. The top two teams from each region were placed in separate quarterfinal brackets and then arranged so that were all to reach the semifinals the top western seed would play the second eastern seed and vise versa.


2018 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
Since five western teams and seven eastern teams qualified for the tournament, three western teams received byes into the quarterfinal round while one eastern team was advanced to the second round. In the first round, the fourth- and fifth-seeded western teams played with the winner advancing to play the top western seed. The second- and third-seeded western teams would play one another in the other western quarterfinal bracket.


2018 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The eastern teams were arranged so that the second seed would play the seventh seed, the third seed would play the sixth seed and the fourth seed would play the fifth seed. The winner between the fourth- and fifth-seeded eastern teams would play the top eastern seed while the winner between the third- and sixth-seeded eastern teams would play the victor of the second- and seventh-seeded match.


2018 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
In the First Round and Quarterfinals the higher-seeded team served as host.


2018 NCAA Division III football season
The 2018 NCAA Division III football season is the component of the 2018 college football season organized by the NCAA at the Division III level in the United States. The regular season began on August 30 and culminated on November 17.


2018 NCAA Division III football season
The season's playoffs ended with the NCAA Division III Football Championship, also known as the Stagg Bowl, at Woodforest Bank Stadium in Shenandoah, Texas. Hosted by the University of Mary Hardin–Baylor, this was the first Stagg Bowl since 1992 to be played away from the Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia.


2018 NCAA Division III football season, Postseason
Twenty-six conferences met the requirements for an automatic ("Pool A") bid to the playoffs. Other than the NESCAC, which does not participate in the playoffs, the NEWMAC was the only conference with no Pool A bid, being in the second year of the two-year waiting period after beginning football sponsorship in 2017. With the loss of Mount Ida, the ECFC fell one below the required seven members – not counting second-year provisional member Dean – and entered the first year of the two-year grace period, while the Liberty League was in the second year of the grace period. The American Southwest, which had fallen below seven members in 2013 and lost its Pool A bid after the grace period, regained it, having attained seven members in 2016 and passed through the waiting period.


2018 NCAA Division III football season, Postseason
Schools not in Pool A conferences were eligible for Pool B. The number of Pool B bids was determined by calculating the ratio of Pool A conferences to schools in those conferences and applying that ratio to the number of Pool B schools. The 26 Pool A conferences contained 228 schools, an average of 8.8 teams per conference. Nine schools were in Pool B, enough for one bid.


2018 NCAA Division III football season, Postseason
The remaining five playoff spots were at-large ("Pool C") teams.


2018 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
An All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team position—who in turn are given the honorific "All-America" and typically referred to as "All-American athletes", or simply "All-Americans". Although the honorees generally do not compete together as a unit, the term is used in U.S. team sports to refer to players who are selected by members of the national media. Walter Camp selected the first All-America team in the early days of American football in 1889.


2018 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The 2018 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans are honorary lists that include All-American selections from the Associated Press (AP), the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA), the Sporting News (TSN), and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) for the 2017–18 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. All selectors choose at least a first and second 5-man team. The NABC, TSN and AP choose third teams, while AP also lists honorable mention selections.


2018 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The Consensus 2018 College Basketball All-American team is determined by aggregating the results of the four major All-American teams as determined by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Since United Press International was replaced by TSN in 1997, the four major selectors have been the aforementioned ones. AP has been a selector since 1948, NABC since 1957 and USBWA since 1960. To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors based on a point system computed from the four different all-America teams.


2018 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The point system consists of three points for first team, two points for second team and one point for third team. No honorable mention or fourth team or lower are used in the computation. The top five totals plus ties are first team and the next five plus ties are second team.


2018 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
Although the aforementioned lists are used to determine consensus honors, there are numerous other All-American lists. The ten finalists for the John Wooden Award are described as Wooden All-Americans. The ten finalists for the Senior CLASS Award are described as Senior All-Americans. Other All-American lists include those determined by USA Today, Fox Sports, Yahoo! Sports and many others. The scholar-athletes selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) are termed Academic All-Americans.


2018 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, Academic All-Americans
On March 12, 2018, the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced the 2018 Academic All-America team, with Jevon Carter headlining the NCAA Division I team as the men's college basketball Academic All-American of the Year. The following is the 2017–18 Academic All-America Division I Men’s Basketball Team as selected by CoSIDA:


2018 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, Senior All-Americans
The ten finalists for the Senior CLASS Award are called Senior All-Americans. The first and second teams, as well as the award winner, were announced during the lead-in to the Final Four. The overall award winner is indicated in bold type.


2018 NCAA Men's National Collegiate Volleyball Tournament
The 2018 NCAA Men's National Collegiate Volleyball Tournament was the 49th annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division I and Division II men's collegiate indoor volleyball. The single-elimination tournament began on April 26 with a play-in match, with the remainder of the tournament hosted by UCLA from May 1–5 at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles. Long Beach State became the Champions for the second time in school history with a 5-set victory over UCLA.


2018 NCAA Men's National Collegiate Volleyball Tournament, Qualification
With the addition of the Big West Conference, which began sponsoring men's volleyball in the 2018 season, to the ranks of automatic qualifying conferences, the tournament expanded from six teams to seven.


2018 NCAA Men's National Collegiate Volleyball Tournament, Qualification
Since the 2015 season, the first after the completion of the transition of the last Division III institution competing at the National Collegiate level, Rutgers–Newark, to Division III volleyball, only NCAA men's volleyball programs from Division I and Division II have been eligible for this tournament. Five automatic bids are given to the five conference postseason tournament winners. The two remaining teams are given at-large bids by the NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament Committee.


2018 NCAA Men's Soccer All-Americans
An All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team position—who in turn are given the honorific "All-America" and typically referred to as "All-American athletes", or simply "All-Americans". Although the honorees generally do not compete together as a unit, the term is used in U.S. team sports to refer to players who are selected by members of the national media. Walter Camp selected the first All-America team in the early days of American football in 1889.


2018 NCAA Men's Soccer All-Americans
The 2018 NCAA Men's Soccer All-Americans are honorary lists that include All-American selections from the United Soccer Coaches (USC), Top Drawer Soccer (TDS), Soccer America (TSN), and College Soccer News for the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. All selectors choose at least a first, second, and third 11-man team.


2018 NCAA Men's Soccer All-Americans
Although the aforementioned lists are used to determine consensus honors, there are numerous other All-American lists. The three finalists for the Hermann Trophy are described as Hermann All-Americans. The ten finalists for the Senior CLASS Award are described as Senior All-Americans. Other All-American lists include those determined by Hero Sports and many others. The scholar-athletes selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) are termed Academic All-Americans.


2018 NCAA Men's Soccer All-Americans, Individual All-America teams, By player
This list is of players who were named first-team All-Americans by each respective publication.


2018 NCAA Men's Soccer All-Americans, Academic All-Americans
CoSIDA names three Academic All-American teams for the 2018 season.


2018 NCAA Men's Soccer All-Americans, Senior All-Americans
The 10 finalists for the Senior CLASS Award are considered Senior All-Americans.


2018 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship
The 2018 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship occurred from November 24th, 2018 to December 2nd, 2018 in Stanford, California at the Avery Aquatic Center. This was the 50th NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship. Eight teams across from all divisions participated in this championship.


2018 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship, Qualification
The six-member selection committee selected eight institutions based on a wide number of factors, primarily number of wins, rigor of schedule, level of availability, an indication of an upward trend or winning consistently, and RPI.


2018 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship, Seeding
Likewise with the criteria mentioned above, seeding was based on level of ranking, geographic proximity to the finals site, and a projected low level of academic commitments missed. The pots outlined feature what level in the championship institutions competed in, ranging from competing away in the first round for Pot 4 to skipping to the semifinals in Pot 1.


2018 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship, Bracket
The championship featured a knockout format where schools that lost were eliminated from the tournament.


2018 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship, Honors
The following distinctions were distributed concluding the championship to athletes that had superior performance of some kind in the championship.


2018 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2018 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament involves eight schools in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of women's NCAA Division I college ice hockey. The quarterfinals will be played at the campuses of the seeded teams on Saturday, March 10, 2018. The Frozen Four will be played on March 16 and 18, 2018 at Ridder Arena in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The University of Minnesota will host the tournament. This will be the fourth time that Ridder Arena will host the Frozen Four and the sixth time it has been played in Minneapolis. This will be the second year that the Big Ten Network will air the Championship Game live and the first year the semifinals will be aired live on BTN.


2018 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams
In the fourth year under this qualification format, the winners of all four Division I conference tournaments received automatic berths to the NCAA tournament. The other four teams were selected at-large. The top four teams were then seeded and received home ice for the quarterfinals.


2018 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament, Bracket
Championship Game Officials: Referee Scott Roth, Shane Paskey Linesmen: Mike Mueller, Glendon Seal


2018 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament, Media, Television
Big Ten Network televised the semifinals and championship during their multi-year contract to carry the event.


2018 NCAA Rifle Championships
The 2018 NCAA Rifle Championships took place from March 9 to March 10 in Charleston, South Carolina, at the McAlister Field House. The tournament went into its 39th consecutive NCAA Rifle Championships, and featured eight teams across all divisions.


2018 NCAA Skiing Championships
The 2018 NCAA Skiing Championships took place from March 7 to March 10 in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, at the Steamboat Ski Resort. The tournament went into its 65th consecutive NCAA Skiing Championships, and featured twenty-three teams across all divisions.