Draw: The Women’s Soccer Committee will announce the 48 teams for the championship at 8 or 9 p.m. ET, Sunday, Nov. 5. Format: Sixteen teams will receive byes in the first round, i.e. 32 teams will play on Wednesday, Nov. 8. Thirty-two teams will play in the second round on either Saturday or Sunday, Nov. 11, or 12. The third round (16 teams) will be played Friday night, Saturday or Sunday, Nov. 17, 18, or 19. The quarterfinals will be played on Friday night, Saturday or Sunday, Nov. 24, 25, or 26. All preliminary-round competition (first-, second-, third-, and fourth-rounds) will be conducted on the campus of one of the two participating institutions. Final four: The semi-finals will be contested at San Jose’s Spartan Stadium on Friday and Sunday, Dec. 1 and 3. In the event an institution with a policy against Sunday competition (documented with the national office) advances to the championship weekend, the semi-finals will be contested Friday, Dec. 1 and the finals will be Saturday, Dec. 2. Automatic bids: These 21 conferences will automatically advance their champions to the NCAA preliminary round of the Women’s College Cup: America East Atlantic 10 Conference Atlantic Coast Conference Big East Conference Big Ten Conference Big 12 Conference Big West Conference Colonial Athletic Association Conference USA Ivy Group Mid-American Conference Midwestern Collegiate Conference Missouri Valley Collegiate Conference Mountain West Conference Pacific 10 Conference Patriot League Southeastern Conference Southern Conference Trans Atlantic Athletic Conference West Coast Conference Western Athletic Conference Play-ins: In addition the following conferences have been identified to participate in a play-in: Big Sky Conference (Montana, 14-4-1) will host Southland Conference (Northwestern State, 15-7-0) (on Nov. 4 at 2 p.m. CT) Big South Conference (Liberty, 14-6-0) will host Ohio Valley Conference (Tennessee Tech, 12-7-0) (on Nov. 3 at 7 p.m. ET) Northeast Conference (Quinnipiac, 12-6-1) will host Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (Loyola, Md., 15-4-0) (on Nov. 4 at 12 p.m. ET)