2002 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament

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2002 NCAA Division I men's
lacrosse tournament
DatesMay 11–27, 2002 [1]
Teams12
Finals site Rutgers Stadium
Flag of New Jersey.svg Piscataway, New Jersey
Champions Syracuse (7th title)
Runner-up Princeton (8th title game)
Semifinalists Johns Hopkins (23rd Final Four)
Virginia (15th Final Four)
Winning coach John Desko (2nd title)
MOP Michael Powell, Syracuse
Attendance [2] 19,706 finals
60,968 total
Top scorer Michael Powell, Syracuse
(14 goals)
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The 2002 NCAA Division I lacrosse tournament was the 32nd 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 2002 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse season. [3]

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Syracuse defeated Princeton in the final, 13–12. [2] The Orangemen's victory—for their record-tying seventh official championship and second in three years—was led by Michael Powell, who had four goals and three assists. The game was a rematch of the 2001 championship game, which was won by Princeton.

The championship game was played at Rutgers Stadium at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, with 19,706 fans in attendance. This was the final championship played on a college campus before later tournament finals were moved to larger National Football League venues.

Overview

For Princeton, the loss snapped a 12-game tournament win streak in games decided by one goal. The Tigers' only previous tournament loss by one goal was in 1991, prior to the first of Princeton's six national titles.

Michael Powell, who was named the tournament most outstanding player and later would be named national player of the year, scored the game-winner with 11:35 left in the championship game. Syracuse won three straight one-goal games in the tournament, and the win gave head coach John Desko his second championship in four years.

All-Tournament Team: Michael Powell, Solomon Bliss, John Glatzel, Tom Hardy and Jay Pfeifer of Syracuse; Damien Davis, Brad Dumont and B.J. Prager of Princeton; Adam Doneger of Johns Hopkins; and Johnny Christmas of Virginia.

Bracket

First Round
May 11–12, 2002 		Quarterfinals
May 18–19, 2002 		Semifinals
May 25, 2002 		Final
May 27, 2002
            
8 Massachusetts 14
Fairfield 7
8 Massachusetts 12
1 Johns Hopkins 13*
1 Johns Hopkins 9
4 Princeton11
4 Princeton 14
5 Georgetown 13
5 Georgetown 12
Manhattan 7
4 Princeton 12
2 Syracuse13
6 Cornell 12
Stony Brook 3
6 Cornell 10
3 Virginia 11
3 Virginia 11
2 Syracuse12**
2 Syracuse 10
7 Duke 9
7 Duke 22
Hobart 6

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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.
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