It starts on Saturday at high noon (11:30 a.m., actually, in one case), four NESCAC women’s tournament quarterfinal games, and there’s a very clear order of merit.
Top-seeded Middlebury won the NCAA championship the last time it competed in a full season in 2019 and has won all 15 of the games it’s played this season.
No. 2 Colby is having a season for the ages and will kick things off against a very familiar foe – rival Bowdoin.
No. 3 Tufts, one year removed from reaching the NCAA title game, will try to ride standout goalie Molly Laliberty (Newburyport, Mass.) to a long postseason run.