Oklahoma State University Athletics
Information Regarding Indoor Championships
December 14, 2020 | Cowgirl Tennis
Oklahoma State University will be the host and automatic qualifier for the 2021 Division I Women's Indoor National Championships.Â
The Road to Stillwater… How does it work?
Host sites and draft participants were selected from an unpublished run of the Oracle ITA Team Rankings from the end of last season. The top seven teams, according to the unpublished March 17 Oracle/ITA national rankings, were selected as host sites. However, if a host site declines, then it moves to the next school in order.Â
According to the unpublished March 17 Oracle/ITA rankings not selected as a host, the highest-ranked team chooses which of the seven sites they want to go to. When called, they will decide where they want to play; then the next highest team is called and chose, and so on. Teams not in the original 28 selected for the draft may still have the opportunity to play if teams above them elect to pass during their draft turn. A team is allowed to choose wherever it wants to go until a site is filled with four teams.
There are links to the draft pages on the Kickoff Weekend page. You can see who is at each site and what order they chose along with their seeds at their site.
During the Kickoff Weekend in January, seven pods of four teams will compete to earn a spot in the National Team Indoors in Stillwater. Since Oklahoma State is the host, we get an automatic bye and won't be hosting a Kickoff Weekend tournament.Â
Each of the seven host sites will determine a champion from their four-team pod to qualify for the National Team Indoors. No. 1 seed will face No. 4 seeds, and No. 2 and No. 3 will play each other. The winning teams from the first round match of the KOW will face each other in the championship to determine who advances to Stillwater. Tennis fans will be watching to see who wins at each of the seven host sites to see who will be coming to Stillwater to compete for the National Team Indoor Championship.
