2016 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
| 2016 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teams | 18 | ||||
| Finals site |
Lincoln Financial Field Philadelphia, PA | ||||
| Champions | North Carolina (5th title) | ||||
| Runner-up | Maryland (13th title game) | ||||
| Semifinalists |
Loyola, MD (4th Final Four) Brown (2nd Final Four) | ||||
| Winning coach | Joe Breschi (1st title) | ||||
| MOP | Chris Cloutier, UNC | ||||
| Attendance |
33,137 semi-finals 26,749 finals 59,886 total | ||||
| Top scorer |
Chris Cloutier, UNC (19 goals) | ||||
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The 2016 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship was the 46th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national championship for National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's college lacrosse. Sixteen teams competed in the tournament, based upon their performance during the regular season, and for some, by means of a conference tournament automatic qualifier or by winning a play-in game. The initial 14 teams were announced on May 8, with the final two spots determined by the winners of two play-in games on May 11.
North Carolina won the championship, defeating Maryland 14–13 in overtime in the final. They became the first unseeded team to win the championship.[1]
Tournament overview
The first round and play-in games (play-in games are not considered NCAA Tournament games, and teams which lose the play-in games are not credited with an NCAA Tournament appearance), were played at campus sites on May 14 and 15. The quarterfinal games were played on May 21, 2016 at Brown Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island, and May 22, 2016 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio.
The semifinals were contested on May 28, 2016, and the championship on May 30, 2016. The semifinals and championship were held at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, and hosted by Drexel University.[2]
Schools from 10 conferences, the America East Conference, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big East Conference, Colonial Athletic Association (CAA), Big Ten Conference, Ivy League, Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC), Northeast Conference (NEC), Patriot League, and Southern Conference (SoCon) were eligible for the eight automatic bids into the tournament by winning their respective conference tournaments, leaving eight remaining at-large bids for top ranked teams.[3]
Bracket
| Play-in game May 11 | ||||
| Quinnipiac | 14 | |||
| Hartford | 9 | |||
| Play-in game May 11 | ||||
| Towson | 18 | |||
| Hobart | 5 | |||
| First Round May 14–15 | Quarterfinals May 21–22 Brown Stadium Ohio Stadium | Semifinals May 28 Lincoln Financial Field | Final May 30 Lincoln Financial Field | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Maryland | 13 | |||||||||||||||||
| Quinnipiac | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Maryland | 13 | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Syracuse | 7 | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Syracuse | 11 | |||||||||||||||||
| Albany | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Maryland | 15* | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Brown | 14 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Yale | 10 | |||||||||||||||||
| Navy | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Navy | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Brown | 11 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Brown | 17 | |||||||||||||||||
| Johns Hopkins | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Maryland | 13 | |||||||||||||||||
| North Carolina | 14* | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Notre Dame | 15 | |||||||||||||||||
| Air Force | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Notre Dame | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
| North Carolina | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Marquette | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
| North Carolina | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| North Carolina | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Loyola | 13 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Loyola | 16 | |||||||||||||||||
| Duke | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Loyola | 10 | |||||||||||||||||
| Towson | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Denver | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Towson | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
- * = Overtime
External links
References
- ↑ Bob Herzog (May 30, 2016). "North Carolina upsets No. 1 Maryland in OT for NCAA lacrosse title". Newday. Retrieved July 17, 2016.
- ↑ "2014-18 NCAA Championship Sites". NCAA.com. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
- ↑ "2015 NCAA Championship Format". NCAA.com. Retrieved 18 May 2015.