For the seventh time in program history, the Texas Tech soccer team will host at least the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

The bracket was unveiled Monday afternoon and saw the Red Raiders earn the No. 2 seed in its region. Tech will play host to Florida Gulf Coast on Friday at 6 p.m. at John Walker Soccer Complex.

Should the Red Raiders (15-1-4) fend off the Eagles, they will host second and third round games in Lubbock next week.

"I'm happy to be standing here knowing that there's more soccer to be played," head coach Tom Stone said. "Even back in July we were talking about (how) it's all about November soccer."

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Texas Tech has made plenty of history this season, which includes the program's first regular-season Big 12 championship. However, the team's first loss of the year came in the Big 12 tournament semifinals against Texas. That setback hasn't dampened the team's readiness for what's ahead.

"We looked at it as an opportunity for growth instead of woe is me," Tech's leading goal scorer Ashleigh Williams said. "We're just looking at that video, fixing the things that need to get fixed."

The Red Raiders also find themselves in a loaded bracket quadrant — something, Stone said, that would've happened no matter where they wound up. Coincidentally, the top seed in Tech's quadrant is BYU, which finished second behind Tech in the regular season and fell to Texas (which earned a 5-seed) in the tournament championship game.

"I think they earned it," Stone said of BYU's seed. "They were awesome all year, won so many games at home and away and I think proved they were worthy of a top seed. Us seeing them again is a long way away when you look at the team's we'd have to play to even get to them, so I'm certainly not in a place to even worry about them right now."

The winner of Texas Tech/FGCU will take on the winner of 7-seed Princeton and Michigan in the second round. Three-seed North Carolina takes on Towson and 6-seed Alabama faces Western Carolina on the other half of Tech's side of the bracket, with one of those teams advancing to the third round, which could be in Lubbock as well.

The Red Raiders' No. 2 seed is the highest in team history and the team is 5-0-1 in NCAA Tournament games played in Lubbock — they won the draw against Pepperdine in a shootout during Tech's last tourney appearance in 2019.

This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Texas Tech soccer earns 2-seed in NCAA Tournament, hosts FGCU on Friday