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The Colorado women’s lacrosse team earned a proper sendoff prior to the program’s first appearance in an NCAA Tournament quarterfinal.

CU athletics director Fernando Lovo, coach Ann Elliott Whidden and others will host a public sendoff at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday outside the northeast entrance to the CU Events Center.

No. 8 Colorado (16-3) will play at No. 1 Northwestern (16-3) at 12:30 p.m. Thursday in the quarterfinal. The game will be televised on ESPNU.

The CU-Northwestern winner gets the winner between No. 5 Stony Brook and No. 4 Johns Hopkins on May 22 in Chicago.

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