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AKRON, Ohio – The University of Akron tennis team is in Ann Arbor, Mich., today to face off against Michigan in the first round of the NCAA Championship. First serve is scheduled for 1 p.m. ET at Varsity Tennis Center.
The Zips (20-4), who are unseeded in the field of 64, will face the 10th-seeded and 10th-ranked Wolverines (22-4) for the first time in program history. Akron is making its first-ever appearance in the NCAA Championship after winning the program's first-ever Mid-American Conference tournament title on May 1, while Michigan lost to Northwestern in the Big Ten Conference tournament after claiming the league's regular-season title.
The Wolverines will be the Zips' third Big Ten opponent this season as UA posted road wins at Penn State (5-2) and Michigan State (4-3) on Jan. 22 and 28, respectively. UA has earned a road win over those two programs in each of the last two seasons.
The winner of the Akron-Michigan match-up will lineup against the winner of unseeded Nebraska (20-7) and Tulsa (25-2) in the second round on Sunday at 1 p.m., in Ann Arbor. The second-round winner will advance to the round of 16 at Taube Tennis Center on the campus of Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif., on Friday, May 20. Nebraska and Tulsa will compete at Varsity Tennis Center today at 10 a.m
