NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship

NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship

Current season or competition: 2013 Division I Championship
Sport	Lacrosse
Founded	1971
No. of teams	16
Country(ies)	United States
Most recent champion(s)	Division I—Loyola Division II—Dowling Division III—Salisbury
TV partner(s)	ESPN, CBS College Sports Network
Official website	NCAA.com

The annual NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship tournament determines the top men's field lacrosse team in the NCAA Division I, Division II, and Division III.

This tournament has determined the national champion since the inaugural 1971 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship. Prior to this, from 1936 through 1970, the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) awarded the Wingate Memorial Trophy to the NCAA Division I annual champion based on regular season records.

The NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship, with the semi-finals and finals played in National Football League stadiums, is among the most attended NCAA Championships

Division I

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. Since then, 42 NCAA tournaments have been held. In that span nine teams — Johns Hopkins, Syracuse, Princeton, North Carolina, Virginia, Cornell, Duke, Maryland, and Loyola — have won the national title, with Syracuse leading with ten titles (plus one vacated by the NCAA). In all, 41 teams have participated in the NCAA tournament since its inception. Only six unseeded teams — the 1988 Cornell Big Red, the 1991 Towson Tigers, the 2006 Massachusetts Minutemen, the 2010 Notre Dame Fighting Irish, the 2011 Maryland Terrapins and the 2012 Maryland Terrapins — have made it to the championship game, and only nine unseeded teams have made it to the tournament semi-finals, the most recent being Cornell in 2013. Johns Hopkins has appeared in every tournament but two (1971 and 2013). The Number One seed in the tournament has won the title 17 times.

Originally consisting of eight teams, the tournament field has been expanded three times, to 10 in 1986, 12 in 1987 and the current 16 in 2003. 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; the sport's heartland expanded into North Carolina beginning in the 1970s. Only six schools from outside the heartland have played in the NCAA tournament—one each from Ohio and Michigan, and two each from Colorado and Indiana.

Finals

Year	Champion (seeding)	Score	Runner-up (seeding)	Venue
1971	Cornell (#1)	12–6	Maryland (#3)	Hofstra Stadium, Hempstead, NY
1972	Virginia (#2)	13–12	Johns Hopkins (#4)	Byrd Stadium, College Park, MD
1973	Maryland (#1)	10–9 (2 OT)	Johns Hopkins (#2)	Franklin Field, Philadelphia, PA
1974	Johns Hopkins (#2)	17–12	Maryland (#1)	Rutgers Stadium I, Piscataway, NJ
1975	Maryland (#3)	20–13	Navy (#4)	Homewood Field, Baltimore, MD
1976	Cornell (#2)	16–13 (OT)	Maryland (#1)	Brown Stadium, Providence, RI
1977	Cornell (#1)	16–8	Johns Hopkins (#2)	Scott Stadium, Charlottesville, VA
1978	Johns Hopkins (#2)	13–8	Cornell (#1)	Rutgers Stadium I, Piscataway, NJ
1979	Johns Hopkins (#1)	15–9	Maryland (#2)	Byrd Stadium
1980	Johns Hopkins (#2)	9–8 (2 OT)	Virginia (#1)	Schoellkopf Field, Ithaca, NY
1981	North Carolina (#2)	14–13	Johns Hopkins (#1)	Palmer Stadium, Princeton, NJ
1982	North Carolina (#1)	7–5	Johns Hopkins (#2)	Scott Stadium
1983	Syracuse (#2)	17–16	Johns Hopkins (#1)	Rutgers Stadium I
1984	Johns Hopkins (#1)	13–10	Syracuse (#2)	Delaware Stadium, Newark, DE
1985	Johns Hopkins (#1)	11–4	Syracuse (#2)	Brown Stadium
1986	North Carolina (#5)	10–9 (OT)	Virginia (#3)	Delaware Stadium
1987	Johns Hopkins (#4)	11–10	Cornell (#2)	Rutgers Stadium I
1988	Syracuse (#1)	13–8	Cornell (unseeded)	Carrier Dome, Syracuse, NY
1989	Syracuse (#1)	13–12	Johns Hopkins (#2)	Byrd Stadium
1990	Vacated (Syracuse won) [1]	21–9	Loyola (#3)	Rutgers Stadium I
1991	North Carolina (#1)	18–13	Towson (unseeded)	Carrier Dome
1992	Princeton (#3)	10–9 (OT)	Syracuse (#1)	Franklin Field
1993	Syracuse (#3)	13–12	North Carolina (#1)	Byrd Stadium
1994	Princeton (#3)	9–8 (OT)	Virginia (#5)	Byrd Stadium
1995	Syracuse (#3)	13–9	Maryland (#4)	Byrd Stadium
1996	Princeton (#1)	13–12 (OT)	Virginia (#3)	Byrd Stadium
1997	Princeton (#1)	19–7	Maryland (#7)	Byrd Stadium
1998	Princeton (#2)	15–5	Maryland (#5)	Rutgers Stadium, Piscataway
1999	Virginia (#3)	12–10	Syracuse (#8)	Byrd Stadium
2000	Syracuse (#1)	13–7	Princeton (#3)	Byrd Stadium
2001	Princeton (#2)	10–9 (OT)	Syracuse (#1)	Rutgers Stadium
2002	Syracuse (#2)	13–12	Princeton (#4)	Rutgers Stadium
2003	Virginia (#2)	9–7	Johns Hopkins (#1)	M&T Bank Stadium, Baltimore
2004	Syracuse (#4)	14–13	Navy (#2)	M&T Bank Stadium
2005	Johns Hopkins (#1)	9–8	Duke (#2)	Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia
2006	Virginia (#1)	15–7	Massachusetts (unseeded)	Lincoln Financial Field
2007	Johns Hopkins (#3)	12–11	Duke (#1)	M&T Bank Stadium
2008	Syracuse (#3)	13–10	Johns Hopkins (#5)	Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, MA
2009	Syracuse (#2)	10–9 (OT)	Cornell (#5)	Gillette Stadium
2010	Duke (#5)	6–5 (OT)	Notre Dame (unseeded)	M&T Bank Stadium
2011	Virginia (#7)	9–7	Maryland (unseeded)	M&T Bank Stadium
2012	Loyola (#1)	9–3	Maryland (unseeded)	Gillette Stadium
2013				Lincoln Financial Field
2014				M&T Bank Stadium

^[1] After the 1990 championship, 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 participation in that championship.

Team Championship records

Team	Championships	Appearances	Winning Years
Syracuse (a)	10	16	1983, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2009
Johns Hopkins	9	18	1974, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1987, 2005, 2007
Princeton	6	8	1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001
Virginia	5	9	1972, 1999, 2003, 2006, 2011
North Carolina	4	5	1981, 1982, 1986, 1991
Cornell	3	7	1971, 1976, 1977
Maryland	2	11	1973, 1975
Duke	1	3	2010
Loyola	1	2	2012
Navy	0	2
Massachusetts	0	1
Towson	0	1
Notre Dame	0	1

Win-loss records in Tournament play

Team	Years Participated	Years	Won	Lost	Pct.	1st	2nd	3rd (b)
Adelphi	1982-85-87-89	4	2	4	.333	0	0	0
Air Force	1971-88	2	0	2	.000	0	0	0
Albany	2003-04-05-07-13	5	1	4	.200	0	0	0
Army	1971-72-73-78-81-82-83-84-85-87-93-96-2003-04-05-10	16	4	16	.200	0	0	1
Brown	1971-73-76-85-87-90-91-92-94-95-97-2009	12	5	12	.294	0	0	1
Bryant	2013	1	0	1	.000	0	0	0
Bucknell	2001-11	2	0	2	.000	0	0	0
Butler	1998	1	0	1	.000	0	0	0
C.W. Post	1986	1	0	1	.000	0	0	0
Canisius	2008-12	2	0	2	.000	0	0	0
Colgate	2008-12	2	1	2	.333	0	0	0
Cornell	1971-74-75-76-77-78-79-80-82-83-87-88-89-95-2000-02-04-05-06-07-08-09-10-11-13	24	30	21	.588	3	4	5
Cortland St.	1972	1	1	1	.500	0	0	1
Dartmouth	2003	1	0	1	.000	0	0	0
Delaware	1984-99-2005-07-10-11	6	3	6	.333	0	0	1
Denver	2006-08-10-11-12-13	6	3	5	.375	0	0	1
Detroit	2013	1	0	1	.000	0	0	0
Duke	1992-94-95-97-98-99-2000-01-02-05-07-08-09-10-11-12-13	15	20	13	.606	1	2	4
Fairfield	2002-05	2	0	2	.000	0	0	0
Georgetown	1997-98-99-2000-01-02-03-04-05-06-07	11	10	11	.476	0	0	1
Hartford	2011	1	0	1	.000	0	0	0
Harvard	1980-88-90-96-2006	5	2	5	.286	0	0	0
Hobart	1998-2000-02-04	4	0	4	.000	0	0	0
Hofstra	1971-73-74-75-78-93-96-97-99-2000-01-03-06-08-09-10-11	17	4	17	.190	0	0	0
Johns Hopkins	1972-73-74-75-76-77-78-79-80-81-82-83-84-85-86-87-88-89-90-91-92-93-94-95-96-97-98-99-2000-01-02-03-04-05-06-07-08-09-10-11-12	41	68	33	.673	9	9	10
Lehigh	2012-13	2	0	1	.000	0	0	0
Loyola	1988-89-90-91-92-93-94-95-96-97-98-99-2000-01-07-10-12-13	17	13	17	.433	1	1	1
Manhattan	2002	1	0	1	.000	0	0	0
Marist	2005	1	0	1	.000	0	0	0
Maryland	1971-72-73-74-75-76-77-78-79-81-82-83-86-87-89-91-92-93-94-95-96-97-98-2000-01-03-04-05-06-07-08-09-10-11-12-13	35	48	33	.593	2	9	11
UMBC	1998-99-2006-07-08-09	6	1	6	.143	0	0	0
Massachusetts	1976-77-79-81-86-87-88-89-90-91-93-95-97-2002-03-04-06-09-12	19	9	18	.333	0	1	0
Michigan St.	1987-89-91	3	0	3	.000	0	0	0
Mt. St. Mary’s	2003-10	2	0	2	.000	0	0	0
Navy	1971-72-73-74-75-76-77-78-79-80-81-82-86-87-88-89-92-93-94-99-2004-05-06-07-08-09	26	16	26	.381	0	2	6
New Hampshire	1986	1	0	1	.000	0	0	0
North Carolina	1976-77-80-81-82-83-84-85-86-87-88-89-90-91-92-93-94-95-96-98-2004-07-09-10-11-12-13	26	27	23	.540	4	1	7
North Carolina St.	1979	1	0	1	.000	0	0	0
Notre Dame	1990-92-93-94-95-96-97-99-2000-01-06-07-08-09-10-11-12-13	18	9	16	.381	0	1	1
Ohio St.	2003-04-08-13	4	1	3	.333	0	0	0
Penn	1975-77-83-84-85-87-88-89-2004-06-11	11	2	11	.154	0	0	1
Penn St.	2003-05-13	3	0	2	.000	0	0	0
Princeton	1990-91-92-93-94-95-96-97-98-99-2000-01-02-03-04-06-07-09-10-12	20	30	14	.682	6	2	2
Providence	2004-06-07	3	0	3	.000	0	0	0
Rutgers	1972-74-75-84-86-90-91-2003-04	9	2	9	.182	0	0	0
Siena	2009-11	2	0	2	.000	0	0	0
Stony Brook	2002-10-12	3	1	3	.250	0	0	0
Syracuse (a)	1979-80-81-83-84-85-86-87-88-89-90-91-92-93-94-95-96-97-98-99-2000-01-02-03-04-05-06-08-09-10-11-12-13	32	62	20	.756	11	5	10
Towson	1989-91-92-94-96-2001-03-04-05-07-13	11	7	10	.412	0	1	1
Villanova	2009-11	2	0	2	.000	0	0	0
Virginia	1971-72-73-74-78-79-80-81-82-83-84-85-86-88-90-91-93-94-95-96-97-98-99-2000-01-02-03-05-06-07-08-09-10-11-12	35	48	30	.615	5	4	12
Wash. & Lee	1972-73-74-75-76-77-78-80	8	3	8	.273	0	0	3
Yale	1988-90-92-2012-13	5	2	4	.333	0	0	1

^(a) The NCAA does not recognize Syracuse's participation in the 1990 tournament and therefore recognizes them as participating in 29 tournaments, having a win-loss record of 59–20 (.747 win percentage), and having 10 championships.

^(b) No third-place game is held, semifinal losers credited with third-place finish

Division II

Following the institution of a tournament format for Division I in 1971, the NCAA added a 'small college' tournament for all non-Division I schools for the 1972 and 1973 seasons. In 1974, a combined Division II and III tournament was played through the 1979 seasons. Division II Championship tournaments were played continually through 1981. Following a twelve-year interruption, the tournament format was resumed in 1993. Lacking a tournament from 1982 to 1992, several Division II teams received invitations to the Division I tournament, including Adelphi in 1982, C.W. Post in 1986, Adelphi again in 1987 where they upset Army, and Adelphi once more in 1989 where they received a number five seeding.

Finals

Year	Champion	Score	Defeated	Venue
1974	Towson State	18-17 (OT)	Hobart	Cortland State
1975	Cortland State	12-11	Hobart	LIU CW Post
1976	Hobart	18-9	Adelphi	UMBC
1977	Hobart	23-13	Washington (MD)	Hobart
1978	Roanoke	14-13	Hobart	Hobart
1979	Adelphi	17-12	UMBC	Adelphi
1980	UMBC	23-14	Adelphi	UMBC
1981	Adelphi	17-14	Loyola (MD)	Adelphi
1982–1992	No NCAA Division II tournament
1993	Adelphi	11-7	C.W. Post	LIU CW Post
1994	Springfield	15-12	New York Tech	LIU CW Post
1995	Adelphi	12-10	Springfield	Springfield
1996	C.W. Post	15-10	Adelphi	LIU CW Post
1997	New York Tech	18-11	Adelphi	Adelphi
1998	Adelphi	18-6	C.W. Post	Rutgers
1999	Adelphi	11-8	C.W. Post	Maryland
2000	Limestone College	10-9	C.W. Post	Maryland
2001	Adelphi	14-10	Limestone College	Rutgers
2002	Limestone College	11-9	New York Tech	Rutgers
2003	New York Tech	9-4	Limestone College	M&T Bank Stadium
2004	LeMoyne	11-10 (2 OT)	Limestone College	M&T Bank Stadium
2005	New York Tech	14-13 (OT)	Limestone College	Lincoln Financial Field
2006	LeMoyne	12-5	Dowling	Lincoln Financial Field
2007	LeMoyne	6-5	Mercyhurst	M&T Bank Stadium
2008	New York Tech	16-11	LeMoyne	Gillette Stadium
2009	C.W. Post	8-7	LeMoyne	Gillette Stadium
2010	C.W. Post	14-9	LeMoyne	M&T Bank Stadium
2011	Mercyhurst	9-8	Adelphi	M&T Bank Stadium
2012	Dowling	11-10	Limestone	Gillette Stadium

Team Championship records

Team	Championships	Appearances	Winning years
Adelphi	7	11	1979, 1981, 1993, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2001
New York Tech	4	6	1997, 2003, 2005, 2008
C W Post	3	7	1996, 2009, 2010
LeMoyne	3	6	2004, 2006, 2007
Limestone College	2	7	2000, 2002
Hobart	2	5	1976, 1977
Springfield	1	2	1994
UMBC	1	2	1980
Roanoke	1	1	1978
Cortland State	1	1	1975
Towson State	1	1	1974
Mercyhurst	1	2	2011
Dowling	1	2	2012
Loyola (MD)	0	1
Washington (MD)	0	1

Schools listed in order by (1) Championships; (2) Championship Appearances; (3) Most Recent Championship (or Most Recent Appearance for teams with no championships)

Division III

The NCAA added a 'small college' tournament for all non-Division I schools for the 1972 and 1973 seasons, a combined Division II and III tournament for the 1974 through 1979 seasons, and finally individual tournaments for Division II and Division III beginning in 1980.

Finals

Year	Champion	Score	Defeated	Venue
1980	Hobart	11-8	SUNY Cortland	Hobart
1981	Hobart	10-8	SUNY Cortland	Hobart
1982	Hobart	9-8 (OT)	Washington College (MD)	Hobart
1983	Hobart	13-9	Roanoke	Hobart
1984	Hobart	12-5	Washington College (MD)	Hobart
1985	Hobart	15-8	Washington College (MD)	Washington College
1986	Hobart	13-10	Washington College (MD)	Hobart
1987	Hobart	9-5	Ohio Wesleyan	Hobart
1988	Hobart	18-9	Ohio Wesleyan	Ohio Wesleyan
1989	Hobart	11-8	Ohio Wesleyan	Hobart
1990	Hobart	18-6	Washington College (MD)	Hobart
1991	Hobart	12-11	Salisbury State	Salisbury
1992	Nazareth (NY)	22-11	Roanoke	Pennsylvania
1993	Hobart	16-10	Ohio Wesleyan	Maryland
1994	Salisbury State	15-9	Hobart	Maryland
1995	Salisbury State	22-13	Nazareth (NY)	Maryland
1996	Nazareth (NY)	11-10 (OT)	Washington College (MD)	Maryland
1997	Nazareth (NY)	15-14 (OT)	Washington College (MD)	Maryland
1998	Washington College (MD)	16-10	Nazareth (NY)	Rutgers
1999	Salisbury State	13-6	Middlebury	Maryland
2000	Middlebury	16-12	Salisbury State	Maryland
2001	Middlebury	15-10	Gettysburg	Rutgers
2002	Middlebury	14-9	Gettysburg	Rutgers
2003	Salisbury	14-13 (OT)	Middlebury	M&T Bank Stadium
2004	Salisbury	13-9	Nazareth (NY)	M&T Bank Stadium
2005	Salisbury	11-10	Middlebury	Lincoln Financial Field
2006	SUNY Cortland	13-12 (OT)	Salisbury	Lincoln Financial Field
2007	Salisbury	15-9	SUNY Cortland	M&T Bank Stadium
2008	Salisbury	19-13	SUNY Cortland	Gillette Stadium
2009	SUNY Cortland	9-7	Gettysburg	Gillette Stadium
2010	Tufts	9-6	Salisbury	M&T Bank Stadium
2011	Salisbury	19-7	Tufts	M&T Bank Stadium
2012	Salisbury	14-10	SUNY Cortland	Gillette Stadium

Team Championship records

Team	Championships	Appearances	Winning years
Hobart	13	15	1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993
Salisbury (State)	10	14	1994, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012
Middlebury	3	6	2000, 2001, 2002
Nazareth	3	6	1992, 1996, 1997
SUNY Cortland	2	7	2006, 2009
Washington College	1	8	1998
Tufts	1	2	2010
Ohio Wesleyan	0	4
Gettysburg	0	3
Roanoke	0	2

Schools listed in order by (1) Championships; (2) Championship Appearances; (3) Most Recent Championship (or Most Recent Appearance for teams with no championships)

See also

• United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association
• Wingate Memorial Trophy
• North-South Senior All-Star Game
• Pre-NCAA Lacrosse Champion
• NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship

Notes

^a Syracuse's participation in the 1990 tournament was vacated by the NCAA Committee due to Infractions. 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.

External links

• NCAA page for men's lacrosse
• All time Men's National College Lacrosse Champions