Ladyjacks Conclude the Regular Season at the Music City Classic
3/14/2025 7:57:00 AM | Women's Bowling
SFA will look to improve its seed for next week's Conference USA Championship, which will be held March 19-23 at Colonial Lanes in Harahan, La.
The field includes eight Conference USA teams overall and 18 squads that are ranked in the March poll of the National Tenpin Coaches Association. Top-ranked Nebraska is idle until the NCAA Tournament, but the teams ranked second through 13th will all be at the Smyrna Bowling Center.
A Look at the Field
Top-25 Ranked Teams (18): #2 Jacksonville State, #3 Vanderbilt, #4 Youngstown State, #5 Wichita State, #6 Arkansas State, #7 Sam Houston, #8 North Carolina A&T, #9 Stephen F. Austin, #10 Maryville, #11 Louisiana Tech, #12 Sacred Heart, #13 UW-Whitewater, #16 Farleigh Dickinson, #17 McKendree, #18 Maryland-Eastern Shore, #19 UAB, #21 Wright State, #25 Emmanuel
Additional Teams (13): Alabama A&M, Aurora, Belmont Abbey, Howard, Illinois Wesleyan, Indianapolis, Jackson State, Lewis, Marian, Newman (rv), Oklahoma Christian (rv), Quincy, William Smith
Conference USA Teams (8): Arkansas State, Jacksonville State, Louisiana Tech, Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin, Vanderbilt, Wichita State, Youngstown State
Format and Schedule
The Music City Classic will deviate from the standard 13-match format this weekend to accommodate the 31 teams.
Teams will bowl in five Baker matches on Friday beginning at 9:30 a.m. CST, and total pinfall will determine the winners of each match. The total pinfall from Friday will determine the opponents for the three position rounds on Saturday.
Saturday's five traditional matches will begin at 9:25 a.m. CST with total pinfall determining the winners, and teams will then bowl another traditional match on Sunday at 8:25 a.m. CST to finish qualifying. Teams will then be seeded into a bracket to determine the final standings, and the matches in the bracket will best a best-of-seven Baker format.
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