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The semifinals and final will be March 22 and 24 at the Whittemore Center in Durham, New Hampshire.Field: Four teams, including one team each from the East and West regions and two teams selected at large.
Selection date: March 17.
2001 champion: Minnesota-Duluth.
Top team contenders:
Minnesota, Minnesota-Duluth, Dartmouth, Northeastern, St. Lawrence, Niagara.Players to watch: Ronda Curtin, Minnesota; Chanda Gunn, Northeastern; Carly Haggard, Dartmouth; Tania Pinelli, Niagara; Maria Rooth, Minnesota-Duluth; Laura Slominski, Minnesota; Brooke Whitney, Northeastern.
DIVISION III
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This inaugural championship will feature two first-round games March 5, and semifinals and finals March 8-9. All games will be played at campus sites.Field:
Six teams, three from automatic-qualifying conferences (Pool A), one from independent institutions (Pool B) and two at-large teams that do not qualify through their conference (Pool C).Selection date: March 3.
Top team contenders:
Middlebury, Manhattanville, Bowdoin, Elmira, Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Gustavus Adolphus, Rochester Institute of Technology, Wisconsin-Superior.Players to watch:
Colleen Baude, Rochester Institute of Technology; Shelly Chessie, Bowdoin; Laura Hurd, Elmira; Amber Neil, Middlebury; Megan Hutchinson, Middlebury; Ann Ninnemann, Wisconsin-Stevens Point; Melanie Salatino, Wisconsin-Superior; Cherie Stewart, Manhattanville; Elaine Vonderembse, Rochester Institute of Technology.A crowd of 3,079 watched Minnesota-Duluth capture the inaugural Women's Frozen Four last year at Minneapolis.
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