NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament

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NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament
SportField lacrosse
Founded1971
No. of teams18
CountryUnited States
Most recent
champion(s)
Notre Dame (1st Title)
Most titlesSyracuse (10 Titles)
TV partner(s)ESPN
CBS Sports Network
Official websiteNCAA.com
Current sports event 2023 Championship

The NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship tournament determines the annual top men's college lacrosse team in the NCAA Division I. This tournament has determined the national champion since the inaugural 1971 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship. From 1936 through 1970, the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) awarded the Wingate Memorial Trophy annually to the collegiate champion based on regular season records.

History[edit]

NCAA Championship 2009. Syracuse vs. Cornell pregame in Gillette Stadium. Syracuse would win 10-9 in OT.

The first Division I Championship tournament held in 1971 replaced the USILA and Wingate Memorial Trophy national title awards. As of 2023, 52 NCAA tournaments have been held (not held in 2020). In that span twelve teams — Johns Hopkins, Syracuse, Princeton, North Carolina, Virginia, Cornell, Duke, Maryland, Loyola University (Maryland), Denver, Yale and Notre Dame — have won the national title, with Syracuse leading with ten titles (plus one vacated by the NCAA[a]). In all, 41 teams have participated in the NCAA tournament since its inception. Only seven unseeded teams — the 1988 Cornell Big Red, the 1991 Towson Tigers, the 2006 Massachusetts Minutemen, the 2010 Notre Dame Fighting Irish, the 2011 and 2012 Maryland Terrapins and the 2016 North Carolina Tar Heels — have made it to the championship game, and only ten unseeded teams have made it to the tournament semi-finals, the most recent being North Carolina in 2016. Johns Hopkins has appeared in every tournament but three (1971, 2013, 2021). The Number One seed in the tournament has won the title 17 times and there have been 13 undefeated National Champions. North Carolina in 2016 was the first unseeded team to win the national title.

Originally consisting of eight teams, the size of the tournament field has changed over the years, increasing to 10 in 1986, 12 in 1987, 16 in 2003, 18 in 2014, down to 17 in 2017, down again to 16 in 2021, and finally back up to 18 in 2022. The two semifinal games and the final have been played on the same weekend at the same stadium since 1986. All three matches have always been scheduled for Memorial Day weekend, with the semifinals doubleheader on Saturday afternoon and the final held on the holiday itself.

The sport has historically been focused in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states, with the sport's U.S. heartland today extending from New England to North Carolina. Only eight schools from outside the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic have played in the NCAA tournament—Air Force, Butler, Denver, Marquette, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Michigan and Utah. No team west of the Eastern Time Zone won an NCAA championship until Denver in 2015.

20 coaches have won Division I titles: Richie Moran, Glenn Thiel, Bud Beardmore, Bob Scott, Henry Ciccarone, Willie Scroggs, Jr., Roy Simmons, Jr., Dave Klarmann, Don Zimmerman, Bill Tierney, Dom Starsia, John Desko, Dave Pietramala, John Danowski, Charley Toomey, John Tillman, Joe Breschi, Andy Shay, Lars Tiffany, and Kevin Corrigan. Tierney is the only one to have won at two different schools (Princeton and Denver).

Results[edit]

NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament
Year Host City
(University)
Host Stadium Final
Winner (Record)
(Seed)
Score Runner-up (Record)
(Seed)
1971
Details
Hempstead, New York
(Hofstra)
Hofstra Stadium Cornell (13–1)
(#1)
12–6 Maryland (9–4)
(#3)
1972
Details
College Park, Maryland
(Maryland)
Byrd Stadium Virginia (11–4)
(n/a)
13–12 Johns Hopkins (11–2)
(n/a)
1973
Details
Philadelphia
(Penn)
Franklin Field Maryland (10–0)
(#1)
10–9
(OT)
Johns Hopkins (11–2)
(#2)
1974
Details
Piscataway, New Jersey
(Rutgers)
Rutgers Stadium I Johns Hopkins (12–2)
(#2)
17–12 Maryland (8–2)
(#1)
1975
Details
Baltimore
(Johns Hopkins)
Homewood Field Maryland (8–2)
(#3)
20–13 Navy (10–5)
(#4)
1976
Details
Providence, Rhode Island
(Brown)
Brown Stadium Cornell (16–0)
(#2)
16–13
(OT)
Maryland (10–1)
(#1)
1977
Details
Charlottesville, Virginia
(Virginia)
Scott Stadium Cornell (13–0)
(#1)
16–8 Johns Hopkins (11–2)
(#2)
1978
Details
Piscataway, New Jersey
(Rutgers)
Rutgers Stadium I Johns Hopkins (13–1)
(#2)
13–8 Cornell (13–1)
(#1)
1979
Details
College Park, Maryland
(Maryland)
Byrd Stadium Johns Hopkins (13–0)
(#1)
15–9 Maryland (9–2)
(#2)
1980
Details
Ithaca, New York
(Cornell)
Schoellkopf Field Johns Hopkins (14–1)
(#2)
9–8
(2OT)
Virginia (12–2)
(#1)
1981
Details
Princeton, New Jersey
(Princeton)
Palmer Stadium North Carolina (12–0)
(#2)
14–13 Johns Hopkins (13–1)
(#1)
1982
Details
Charlottesville, Virginia
(Virginia)
Scott Stadium North Carolina (14–0)
(#1)
7–5 Johns Hopkins (11–3)
(#2)
1983
Details
Piscataway, New Jersey
(Rutgers)
Rutgers Stadium I Syracuse (14–1)
(#2)
17–16 Johns Hopkins (12–2)
(#1)
1984
Details
Newark, Delaware
(Delaware)
Delaware Stadium Johns Hopkins (14–0)
(#1)
13–10 Syracuse (15–1)
(#2)
1985
Details
Providence, Rhode Island
(Brown)
Brown Stadium Johns Hopkins (13–1)
(#1)
11–4 Syracuse (14–2)
(#2)
1986
Details
Newark, Delaware
(Delaware)
Delaware Stadium North Carolina (11–3)
(#5)
10–9
(OT)
Virginia (12–3)
(#3)
1987
Details
Piscataway, New Jersey
(Rutgers)
Rutgers Stadium I Johns Hopkins (10–3)
(#4)
11–10 Cornell (13–1)
(#2)
1988
Details
Syracuse, New York
(Syracuse)
Carrier Dome Syracuse (15–0)
(#1)
13–8 Cornell (9–6)
(unseeded)
1989
Details
College Park, Maryland
(Maryland)
Byrd Stadium Syracuse (14–1)
(#1)
13–12 Johns Hopkins (11–2)
(#2)
1990
Details
Piscataway, New Jersey
(Rutgers)
Rutgers Stadium I Syracuse (Vacated) (13–0)
(#1) [a]
21–9 Loyola (11–3)
(#3)
1991
Details
Syracuse, New York
(Syracuse)
Carrier Dome North Carolina (16–0)
(#1)
18–13 Towson (12–4)
(unseeded)
1992
Details
Philadelphia
(Penn)
Franklin Field Princeton (13–2)
(#3)
10–9
(OT)
Syracuse (13–2)
(#1)
1993
Details
College Park, Maryland
(Maryland)
Byrd Stadium Syracuse (12–2)
(#3)
13–12 North Carolina (14–2)
(#1)
1994
Details
College Park, Maryland
(Maryland)
Byrd Stadium Princeton (14–1)
(#3)
9–8
(OT)
Virginia (13–4)
(#5)
1995
Details
College Park, Maryland
(Maryland)
Byrd Stadium Syracuse (13–2)
(#3)
13–9 Maryland (12–4)
(#4)
1996
Details
College Park, Maryland
(Maryland)
Byrd Stadium Princeton (14–1)
(#1)
13–12
(OT)
Virginia (12–4)
(#3)
1997
Details
College Park, Maryland
(Maryland)
Byrd Stadium Princeton (15–0)
(#1)
19–7 Maryland (11–5)
(#7)
1998
Details
Piscataway, New Jersey
(Rutgers)
Rutgers Stadium II Princeton (14–1)
(#2)
15–5 Maryland (14–3)
(#5)
1999
Details
College Park, Maryland
(Maryland)
Byrd Stadium Virginia (13–3)
(#3)
12–10 Syracuse (12–5)
(#8)
2000
Details
College Park, Maryland
(Maryland)
Byrd Stadium Syracuse (15–1)
(#1)
13–7 Princeton (12–3)
(#3)
2001
Details
Piscataway, New Jersey
(Rutgers)
Rutgers Stadium II Princeton (14–1)
(#2)
10–9
(OT)
Syracuse (13–3)
(#1)
2002
Details
Piscataway, New Jersey
(Rutgers)
Rutgers Stadium II Syracuse (15–2)
(#2)
13–12 Princeton (10–5)
(#4)
2003
Details
Baltimore M&T Bank Stadium Virginia (15–2)
(#2)
9–7 Johns Hopkins (14–2)
(#1)
2004
Details
Baltimore M&T Bank Stadium Syracuse (15–2)
(#4)
14–13 Navy (15–3)
(#2)
2005
Details
Philadelphia (Penn) Lincoln Financial Field Johns Hopkins (16–0)
(#1)
9–8 Duke (17–3)
(#2)
2006
Details
Philadelphia (Penn) Lincoln Financial Field Virginia (17–0)
(#1)
15–7 Massachusetts (13–5)
(unseeded)
2007
Details
Baltimore M&T Bank Stadium Johns Hopkins (13–4)
(#3)
12–11 Duke (17–3)
(#1)
2008
Details
Foxborough, Massachusetts Gillette Stadium Syracuse (16–2)
(#3)
13–10 Johns Hopkins (11–6)
(#5)
2009
Details
Foxborough, Massachusetts Gillette Stadium Syracuse (15–2)
(#2)
10–9
(OT)
Cornell (13–4)
(#5)
2010
Details
Baltimore M&T Bank Stadium Duke (16–4)
(#5)
6–5
(OT)
Notre Dame (12–6)
(unseeded)
2011
Details
Baltimore M&T Bank Stadium Virginia (13–5)
(#7)
9–7 Maryland (13–5)
(unseeded)
2012
Details
Foxborough, Massachusetts Gillette Stadium Loyola (18–1)
(#1)
9–3 Maryland (12–6)
(unseeded)
2013
Details
Philadelphia (Drexel) Lincoln Financial Field Duke (16–5)
(#7)
16–10 Syracuse (16–4)
(#1)
2014
Details
Baltimore M&T Bank Stadium Duke (17–3)
(#1)
11–9 Notre Dame (12–6)
(#6)
2015
Details
Philadelphia (Drexel) Lincoln Financial Field Denver (17–2)
(#4)
10–5 Maryland (15–4)
(#6)
2016
Details
Philadelphia (Drexel) Lincoln Financial Field North Carolina (12–6)
(unseeded)
14–13

(OT)

Maryland (17–3)
(#1)
2017
Details
Foxborough, Massachusetts Gillette Stadium Maryland (16–3)
(#1)
9–6 Ohio State (16–5)
(#3)
2018
Details
Foxborough, Massachusetts Gillette Stadium Yale (17–3)
(#3)
13–11 Duke (16–4)
(#4)
2019
Details
Philadelphia (Drexel) Lincoln Financial Field Virginia (17–3)
(#3)
13–9 Yale (15–4)
(#5)
2020
Details
Philadelphia (Drexel) Lincoln Financial Field Cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic
2021
Details
East Hartford, Connecticut (Fairfield) Rentschler Field Virginia (14–4)
(#4)
17–16 Maryland (15–1)
(#3)
2022
Details
East Hartford, Connecticut (Fairfield) Rentschler Field Maryland (18–0)
(#1)
9–7 Cornell (14–5)
(#7)
2023
Details
Philadelphia (Drexel) Lincoln Financial Field Notre Dame (13–2)
(#3)
13–9 Duke (16–2)
(#1)
2024
Details
Philadelphia (Drexel) Lincoln Financial Field
2025
Details
Foxborough, Massachusetts Gillette Stadium
2026
Details
TBD TBD

NCAA team titles[edit]

Below is a list of championships awarded by the NCAA. A vacated title is not included in the total.

NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament is located in the United States
Syracuse
Syracuse
Virginia
Virginia
Princeton
Princeton
North Carolina
North Carolina
Maryland
Maryland
Cornell
Cornell
Duke
Duke
Denver
Denver
Yale
Yale
Notre Dame
Notre Dame
Baltimore schools Johns Hopkins Loyola
Baltimore schools
Johns Hopkins
Loyola
National Championships by school
– 10 championships, – 9 championships, – 7 championships, – 6 championships, – 5 championships, – 4 championships, – 3 championships, – 1 championship
Team Titles Finals lost Years won
Syracuse 10 6 1983, 1988, 1989, 1990[a], 1993, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2009
Johns Hopkins 9 9 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1987, 2005, 2007
Virginia 7 4 1972, 1999, 2003, 2006, 2011, 2019, 2021
Princeton 6 2 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001
North Carolina 5 1 1981, 1982, 1986, 1991, 2016
Maryland 4 12 1973, 1975, 2017, 2022
Cornell 3 5 1971, 1976, 1977
Duke 3 4 2010, 2013, 2014
Loyola 1 1 2012
Denver 1 0 2015
Yale 1 1 2018
Notre Dame 1 2 2023
Navy 0 2
Towson 0 1
Massachusetts 0 1
Ohio State 0 1

Finals appearances by state[edit]

State Titles University Runners-up University
Maryland Maryland 14 Johns Hopkins (9), Maryland (4), Loyola (1) 25 Maryland (12), Johns Hopkins (9), Navy (2), Loyola (1), Towson (1)
New York (state) New York 13 Syracuse (10), Cornell (3) 11 Syracuse (6), Cornell (5)
North Carolina North Carolina 8 North Carolina (5), Duke (3) 5 Duke (4), North Carolina (1)
Virginia Virginia 7 Virginia (7) 4 Virginia (4)
New Jersey New Jersey 6 Princeton (6) 2 Princeton (2)
Indiana Indiana 1 Notre Dame (1) 2 Notre Dame (2)
Connecticut Connecticut 1 Yale (1) 1 Yale (1)
Colorado Colorado 1 Denver (1) 0
Massachusetts Massachusetts 0 1 Massachusetts (1)
Ohio Ohio 0 1 Ohio State (1)

Championships 1881–present[edit]

Below is a list of team championship titles, inclusive of those awarded prior to the formation of the NCAA Division I Championship. These include the ILA champions (1881–1898), the USIULL and ILA champions (1899–1905), the USILL champions (1906–1925), the USILA champions (1926–1935), and the Wingate Memorial Trophy (1936–1972) recipients. Of note several schools have claimed their Northern and Southern Division titles won during the USILL years as national championships (based on the results of 3 or 4 intra-division games), while others have not. Still others were acclaimed in their time as unofficial title winners based on being leading teams in the collegiate ranks in particular years. Furthermore, the USILL (1906–1925) was a closed membership organization. Some strong teams of the era, such as Army and Navy, were never members, so that in some years, the USILL champion was not necessarily the best team in the United States.

Team Titles Years won/claimed#
Johns Hopkins 44 1891, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1902, 1903, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1913, 1915, 1918, 1919, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1932§, 1933§, 1934§, 1941, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1957, 1959, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1987, 2005, 2007
Navy 17 1928, 1929, 1938, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1949, 1954, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1970
Princeton 15 1883, 1884, 1888, 1889, 1935§, 1937, 1942, 1951, 1953, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001
Syracuse 15 1920, 1922, 1924, 1925, 1983, 1988, 1989, 1990[a], 1993, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2009
Harvard 13 1881†, 1882, 1883, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912‡, 1913, 1915
Maryland 13 1928, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1967, 1973, 1975, 2017, 2022
Lehigh 10 1890, 1893, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1914, 1916, 1917, 1920, 1921‡
Virginia 9 1952, 1970, 1972, 1999, 2003, 2006, 2011, 2019, 2021
Army 8 1923, 1944, 1945, 1951, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1969
Cornell 8 1902, 1903, 1907, 1914, 1916, 1971, 1976, 1977
North Carolina 5 1981, 1982, 1986, 1991, 2016
Swarthmore 4 1901, 1904, 1905, 1910
Stevens Tech 4 1892, 1894, 1917, 1918
Duke 3 2010, 2013, 2014
St John's (MD) 2 1930, 1931
Yale 2 1883, 2018
Rutgers 1 1928
Union College 1 1929
RPI 1 1952
Loyola 1 2012
Denver 1 2015
Notre Dame 1 2023
#Championship or co-championship claims, as published in school media guide, record book or yearbook
§The USILA did not name champions for the 1932–1935 seasons. School claims national championship based on being that year's leading team.
†Won a tournament conducted for the first collegiate national championship by the U.S. National Lacrosse Association.
‡Won a post-season championship game between the winners of the USILL Northern and Southern Divisions.

Championships by state[edit]

State Titles University
Maryland Maryland 77 Johns Hopkins (44), Navy (17), Maryland (13), St. John's MD (2), Loyola (1)
New York (state) New York 33 Syracuse (15[a]), Army (8), Cornell (8), Union College (1), RPI (1)
New Jersey New Jersey 20 Princeton (15), Stevens Tech (4), Rutgers (1)
Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 14 Lehigh (10), Swarthmore (4)
Massachusetts Massachusetts 13 Harvard (13)
Virginia Virginia 9 Virginia (9)
North Carolina North Carolina 8 North Carolina (5), Duke (3)
Connecticut Connecticut 2 Yale (2)
Colorado Colorado 1 Denver (1)
Indiana Indiana 1 Notre Dame (1)

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e Syracuse's championship in the 1990 tournament was vacated by the NCAA. The NCAA Committee on Infractions determined that Paul Gait had played in the 1990 championship while ineligible. Under NCAA rules, Syracuse and Paul Gait's records for that championship were vacated. The NCAA does not recognize Syracuse and coach Roy Simmons, Jr.'s record in the 1990 tournament.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Men's Lacrosse Championship History". National Collegiate Athletic Association. Retrieved 2015-11-22.

External links[edit]