From: Jim B. Sheehan
[email protected] Subject: Wrestling: EIWA Receives 47 Allocations To The 2018 NCAA Championships Date: February 22, 2018 at 2:23 PM To: Jim B. Sheehan
[email protected] Wrestling: EIWA Receives 47 Allocations To The 2018 NCAA Championships Courtesy: Hofstra Athletic Communications For Release: Sunday, February 11, 2018 NCAA Coaches Rankings NCAA RPI Rankings NCAA Release Hempstead, NY - The NCAA has announced the qualifier allocations for the 2018 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships as listed in the chart below. The Hofstra Wrestling team is a member of the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) which received 47 allocations to the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio from March 15-17. The 47 EIWA bids are an increase of four spots over last year's Championships. The 2018 EIWA Championships will be held at the David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex on the campus of Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York on Saturday and Sunday, March 3-4. For information on the EIWA Championships please go to GoHofstra.com/EIWA. The EIWA received seven bids at 184, six at 157, 165, and 197, five at 174 and 285, four at 141, 149, three at 133 and one at 125. The 16-team EIWA received the second-most allocations behind the 80 to the Big Ten Conference. The Big 12 received 45, the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) received 34, the Mid-American Conference (MAC) received 25, the Pac-12 received 22, and the Eastern Wrestling League received 18 and the Southern Conference received 12.