(reminder: check the CS360 Twitter feed – located on the top-left corner of the CS360 main page and blog page – for in-game updates and other news throughout the day on Sunday; the feed includes the 30 most-recent "tweats" ... CS360 also will post a wrapup of the entire day on Sunday night)
Sunday's Division I women's soccer schedule will feature 32 teams in action from CS360's top-50 of the Composite National Rankings (CNR) – but there will be only 19 games involving those teams, because there are 13 "big games" on tap that will feature matchups between CS360 top-50 teams.
Four of the top games will see two CNR top-20 teams face off: #9 Wake Forest at #6 Boston College ... #5 North Carolina at #10 Maryland .. #4 Florida State at #17 Virginia Tech ... and #2 Portland at #20 Santa Clara. Here's a look at the 13 noteworthy showdowns on Nov. 1, with many of these games potentially having big ramifications on NCAA Tournament qualification (rank refers to the CNR):
• #2 Portland at #20 Santa Clara ... (2 PT)
• #4 Florida State at #17 Virginia Tech ... (12 ET)
• #5 North Carolina at #10 Maryland ... (1 ET)
• #9 Wake Forest at #6 Boston College ... (1 ET)
• #34 Indiana at #13 Ohio State ... (1 ET)
• #47 West Virginia (American Div. #4 seed) at #15 Rutgers (Nat'l Div. #2) ... (1 ET)**
• #18 Washington State at #50 Oregon ... (1 PT)
• #21 Penn State at #30 Purdue ... (12 ET)
• #41 Villanova (National Div. #4 seed) at #22 Marquette (Amer. Div. #1) ... (1 ET)**
• #27 Washington at #29 Oregon State ... (11:30 PT)
• #31 Miami at #43 Virginia ... (2 ET)
• #33 Georgetown (National Div. #3 seed) at #35 St. John's (Amer. Div. #2) ... (1 ET)**
• #48 Arizona State at #36 California ... (1 PT)
** = BIG EAST Quarterfinal (WVU @RU...VILL @MARQ...G'town @StJohn's)
The six other top-50 teams that will be in action on Sunday include a BIG EAST quarterfinal between #7 Notre Dame (National Division #1 seed) playing at home vs. South Florida (American Div. #4 seed) at 1 ET, plus the following five games:
#42 DUKE at North Carolina State ... (1 ET)
#45 CAL POLY at UC Santa Barbara ... (1 PT)
#6 seed Evansville at #3 seed Creighton ... (1 CT)
#5 seed Indiana State at #4 seed Drake ... (3 CT)