1998 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament

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1998 NCAA Division I men's
lacrosse tournament
DatesMay 9–25, 1998 [1]
Teams12
Finals site Rutgers Stadium
Flag of New Jersey.svg Piscataway, New Jersey
Champions Princeton (5th title)
Runner-up Maryland (9th title game)
Semifinalists Loyola Maryland (2nd Final Four)
Syracuse (16th Final Four)
Winning coach Bill Tierney (5th title)
MOP Corey Popham, Princeton
Attendance [2] 17,225 finals
64,850 total
Top scorer Andrew Whipple, Maryland
(18 goals)
NCAA Division I men's tournaments
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The 1998 NCAA Division I lacrosse tournament was the 28th 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 1998 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse season. [3]

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Princeton defeated Maryland in the final, 15–5. [2] This was Princeton's third consecutive national championship under Head Coach Bill Tierney, and their fifth title since 1992.

The championship game was played at Rutgers Stadium at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, with 21,194 fans in attendance. [4]

Qualifying

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.

Butler, Hobart, and UMBC made their debut appearances in the Division I lacrosse tournament.

Bracket

First Round
May 9-10, 1998
Quarterfinals
May 16-17, 1998
Semifinals
May 23, 1998
Final
May 25, 1998
            
Georgetown 9
8 UMBC 8
1 Loyola Maryland 12
Georgetown 11
1 Loyola Maryland 8
5 Maryland19
4 Johns Hopkins 10
5 Maryland11*
5 Maryland 18
Butler 10
5 Maryland 5
2 Princeton15
7 Duke 16
North Carolina 14
2 Princeton 11
7 Duke 9
2 Princeton11
3 Syracuse 10
3 Syracuse 17
6 Virginia 14
6 Virginia 16
Hobart 10

All-Tournament Team

See also

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References

  1. "NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Tournament brackets" (PDF). NCAA.org. NCAA. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
  2. 1 2 "NCAA Lacrosse Division I Results / Records" (PDF). NCAA. p. 3 (51). Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  3. "DIVISION I MEN'S LACROSSE CHAMPIONSHIPS RECORDS BOOK" (PDF). NCAA.org. NCAA. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
  4. "Attendance Figures for the NCAA Men's Championships". LaxPower.com. Archived from the original on 10 June 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-25.