1996 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament | |||||
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Teams | 12 | ||||
Finals site | Byrd Stadium College Park, Maryland | ||||
Champions | Princeton (3rd title) | ||||
Runner-up | Virginia (5th title game) | ||||
Semifinalists | Johns Hopkins (20th Final Four) Syracuse (14th Final Four) | ||||
Winning coach | Bill Tierney (3rd title) | ||||
MOP | Michael Watson, Virginia | ||||
Attendance [1] | 22,102 finals 68,978 total | ||||
Top scorers | Rob Kavovit, Syracuse Doug Knight and Tim Whiteley, Virginia (16 goals) | ||||
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The 1996 NCAA Division I lacrosse tournament was the 26th annual tournament hosted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to determine the team champion of men's college lacrosse among its Division I programs, held at the end of the 1996 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse season.
Princeton defeated Virginia in the final, 13–12 in overtime. Jesse Hubbard scored the game-winning goal for Princeton in overtime. This was Princeton's third national championship under Head Coach Bill Tierney. [1]
The championship game was played at Byrd Stadium at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, with 22,102 fans in attendance. [2]
Twelve NCAA Division I college men's lacrosse teams met after having played their way through a regular season, and for some, a conference tournament. No teams made their debut appearance in the Division I lacrosse tournament in 1996.
First Round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
8 | Towson State | 16 | |||||||||||||||||
Loyola Maryland | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
1 | Princeton | 22 | |||||||||||||||||
8 | Towson State | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
1 | Princeton | 11 | |||||||||||||||||
5 | Syracuse | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
4 | North Carolina | 12 | |||||||||||||||||
5 | Syracuse | 19 | |||||||||||||||||
5 | Syracuse | 12 | |||||||||||||||||
Army | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
1 | Princeton | 13 * | |||||||||||||||||
3 | Virginia | 12 | |||||||||||||||||
Harvard | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
6 | Hofstra | 12 | |||||||||||||||||
3 | Virginia | 23 | |||||||||||||||||
Harvard | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
3 | Virginia | 16 | |||||||||||||||||
7 | Johns Hopkins | 10 | |||||||||||||||||
2 | Maryland | 7 | |||||||||||||||||
7 | Johns Hopkins | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
7 | Johns Hopkins | 12 | |||||||||||||||||
Notre Dame | 7 |
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