For Immediate Release
Saturday, April 19, 2025
NSIC Media Relations
Championship Website

BURNSVILLE, Minn. - The pairings for the 2025 NSIC Women's Tennis Tournament are set as the nine match NSIC schedule concluded Saturday.  Augustana, which won its 15th straight NSIC regular season championship, will be the number one seed in the six-team single elimination tournament, which will take place on Friday-Sunday, April 25-27 at Huether Family Match Pointe in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. With the new six-team format this year, the top two seeds will receive first round byes. 
 
Augustana has won 169 straight NSIC matches, with its last loss coming back on April 19, 2009 to Minnesota State.  Since joining the NSIC in 2008-09, the Viking are 176-3 in NSIC matches, have won 15 straight NSIC regular season titles and the last 13 NSIC Tournaments. The Vikings have won their last 37 NSIC Tournament matches as well.

Quarterfinal matches will have sixth seeded Minnesota Crookston versus third seeded Sioux Falls on Friday at 1:30 p.m. followed by fourth seeded University of Mary versus fifth seeded MSU Moorhead at 4:30 p.m. 

Augustana will await the winner of the (4) UMary / (5) MSU Moorhead quarterfinal match on Saturday at 1:30 p.m.  Second seeded Minnesota State also received a bye and will take on the winner of the (3) Sioux Falls / (6) Minnesota Crookston quarterfinal match on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. 

All match start times are subject to change if earlier matches run long. No matches will begin earlier than the announced start time. 
The championship match set for Sunday, April 27 at 10 a.m.
 
TIE-BREAKERS
UMary/MSUM: UMary earned the fourth seed as it defeated MSU Moorhead head-to-head.

About the NSIC
The NSIC is a 15-team, 18-sport, NCAA Division II conference with institutions located in Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The NSIC is a model Division II conference that uses high-level athletics competition to develop champions in the classroom and community while empowering student-athletes to be impactful and positive leaders. Formed in 1992 by the merger of the Northern Intercollegiate Conference (men’s league) and the Northern Sun Conference (women’s league), the NSIC has flourished over the past quarter century, maturing into a 16-team union of Upper Midwest colleges and universities. The NSIC has won 27 team national championships and crowned 121 individual national champions. For additional information, visit NorthernSun.org.

About NCAA Division II
The NCAA, the national governing body for college athletics, is a volunteer association of more than 1,000 colleges and universities that classify their athletics programs in one of three membership divisions. The 300+ institutions in NCAA Division II support a balanced approach in which student-athletes can earn scholarships based on their athletic ability, pursue their desired academic degree, and participate in all the campus and surrounding community have to offer. Division II student-athletes annually graduate at rates higher than their student body peers, and they have access to the best championships-participant ratio among the NCAA’s three divisions. Division II gives student-athletes the unique opportunity to compete in the classroom, on the field, in their career, for their causes, and on their terms. For additional information, visit NCAA.org.