2006 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament

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2006 NCAA Division I men's
lacrosse tournament
DatesMay 13–29, 2006
Teams16
Finals site Lincoln Financial Field
Flag of Pennsylvania.svg Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Champions Virginia (4th title)
Runner-up Massachusetts (1st title game)
Semifinalists Maryland (19th Final Four)
Syracuse (23rd Final Four)
Winning coach Dom Starsia (3rd title)
MOP Matt Ward, Virginia
Attendance [1] 49,562 semi-finals
47,062 finals
96,624 total
Top scorer Matt Ward, Virginia
(22 goals)
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The 2006 NCAA Division I lacrosse tournament was the 36th 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 2006 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse season. [2]

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Virginia won the national title with a 15–7 win over Massachusetts. [3] The Cavaliers, led by Matt Ward and Ben Rubeor, completed a perfect 17-0 record and won their fourth NCAA championship and sixth overall national lacrosse title. The Minutemen became the second unseeded team to make the NCAA final (Towson State also accomplished this in 1991).

The semifinals and the championship game were played at Lincoln Financial Field, the home of the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a crowd of 47,062 fans in attendance. [4]

Qualifying

Sixteen NCAA Division I college men's lacrosse teams met after having played their way through a regular season, and for some, a conference tournament.

Denver made their debut appearance in the Division I men's lacrosse tournament.

Bracket

First Round
May 13–14, 2006 		Quarterfinals
May 20–21, 2006 		Semifinals
May 27, 2006 		Final
May 29, 2006
            
1 Virginia 14
Notre Dame 10
1 Virginia20
8 Georgetown 8
Navy 7
8 Georgetown 9
1 Virginia17
5 Syracuse 10
5 Syracuse 11
Harvard 4
5 Syracuse13
4 Johns Hopkins 12
Penn 3
4 Johns Hopkins 13
1 Virginia15
Massachusetts 7
3 Hofstra 14
Providence 8
Massachusetts11*
3 Hofstra 10
Massachusetts 10
6 Cornell 9
Massachusetts8
2 Maryland 5
7 Princeton 11
UMBC 8
7 Princeton 6
2 Maryland11
Denver 8
2 Maryland 16

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