2015 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship

2015 NCAA Division I Men's
Lacrosse Championship
Teams 16
Finals site Lincoln Financial Field
Philadelphia, PA
Champions Denver (1st title)
Runner-up Maryland (12th title game)
Semifinalists Johns Hopkins (29th Final Four)
Notre Dame (5th Final Four)
Winning coach Bill Tierney (7th title)
MOP Wesley Berg, Denver
Attendance 29,123 semi-finals
24,215 finals
53,338 total
Top scorer Wesley Berg, Denver
(16 goals)
NCAA Division I Men's Championships
«2014 2016»

The 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship was the 45th 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 3, with the final two spots determined by the winners of two play-in games on May 6.

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. The quarterfinal games were played on May 16 and 17, 2015 at Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland (hosted by the United States Naval Academy), and Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Denver (hosted by the University of Denver).

The semifinals were played on May 23, 2015, and the championship on May 25, 2015. The semifinals and championship were held at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, and were hosted by Drexel University.[1]

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. [2]

Albany (America East), Bryant (NEC), Denver (Big East), Towson (CAA), Colgate (Patriot), Syracuse (ACC), Yale (Ivy), High Point (Southern Conference) and Marist (MAAC) were the 10 schools that were eligible for the tournament's eight automatic bids.

Results

The Denver Pioneers beat Maryland 10–5 for the school's first national championship, and also the first-ever NCAA men's lacrosse title for a school located west of the Mississippi River.

Wesley Berg was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. This was Bill Tierney's first championship since he won with Princeton in 2001.

Bracket

Play-in game
May 6
   
Towson 10
High Point 8
Play-in game
May 6
   
Bryant 6
Marist 10
First Round
May 9-10 		Quarterfinals
May 16-17
Sports Authority Field at Mile High
Navy Marine Corps Stadium 		Semifinals
May 23
Lincoln Financial Field 		Final
May 25
Lincoln Financial Field
            
1 Notre Dame 12
  Towson 10
1 Notre Dame 14
  Albany 10
8 Cornell 10
  Albany 19
1 Notre Dame 10
4 Denver 11*
4 Denver 15
  Brown 9
4 Denver 15
  Ohio State 13
5 Duke 11
  Ohio State 16
4 Denver 10
6 Maryland 5
3 North Carolina 19
  Colgate 12
3 North Carolina 7
6 Maryland 14
6 Maryland 8
  Yale 7
6 Maryland 12
  Johns Hopkins 11
7 Virginia 7
  Johns Hopkins 19
  Johns Hopkins 16
2 Syracuse 15
2 Syracuse 20
  Marist 8
* = Overtime

References

  1. ↑ "2014-18 NCAA Championship Sites". NCAA.com. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  2. ↑ "2015 NCAA Championship Format". NCAA.com. Retrieved 18 May 2015.


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