2012 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament

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2012 NCAA Division I men's
lacrosse tournament
DatesMay 12–28, 2012
Teams16
Finals site Gillette Stadium
Flag of Massachusetts.svg Foxborough, Massachusetts
Champions Loyola (1st title)
Runner-up Maryland (11th title game)
Semifinalists Duke (8th Final Four)
Notre Dame (3rd Final Four)
Winning coach Charley Toomey (Loyola title)
MOPEric Lusby, Loyola
Attendance [1] 31,774 semi-finals
30,816 finals
62,590 total
Top scorerEric Lusby, Loyola
(17 goals)
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The 2012 NCAA Division I lacrosse tournament was the 42nd 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 2012 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse season. [2] The tournament was played from May 12–28, 2012.

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Loyola won their first ever NCAA lacrosse title, defeating unseeded Maryland, 9–3. Despite beginning the season unranked, the Greyhounds became the ninth school to win an NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse championship since tournament play began in 1971. Loyola won 12 straight games to start the season before losing their only game, an overtime loss to Johns Hopkins. The Greyhounds' Eric Lusby set a then-tournament record for goals with 17. [3] [4] [5] [6]

The championship game was played at Gillette Stadium, the home of the NFL's New England Patriots, in Foxborough, Massachusetts, with 41,935 fans in attendance.

The United States Naval Academy hosted two quarterfinal matches on May 19 at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland. Drexel University hosted the other two quarterfinal matches on May 20 at PPL Park in Chester, Pennsylvania.

Qualifying

Sixteen teams were selected to compete in the tournament based upon their performance during the regular season, and for some, by means of a conference tournament automatic qualifier.

Canisius (MAAC), Lehigh (Patriot League), Loyola (ECAC), Massachusetts (CAA), Stony Brook (America East), Syracuse (Big East), and Yale (Ivy League), earned an automatic bid into the tournament by winning their respective conference tournaments. During the tournament, the Colgate Raiders won their first ever NCAA Tournament game, defeating Massachusetts by a score of 13–11.

Bracket

First Round
May 12–13
Quarterfinals
May 19–20
Semifinals
May 26
Final
May 28
            
1 Loyola Maryland 17
  Canisius 5
1 Loyola Maryland10
 Denver 9
8 North Carolina 14
  Denver 16
1 Loyola Maryland7
4 Notre Dame 5
4 Notre Dame 13
  Yale 7
4 Notre Dame12
5 Virginia 10
5 Virginia 6
  Princeton 5
1 Loyola Maryland9
 Maryland 3
3 Duke 12
  Syracuse 9
3 Duke17
 Colgate 6
6 Massachusetts 11
  Colgate 13
3 Duke 10
 Maryland16
7 Lehigh 9
  Maryland 10
 Maryland11
2 Johns Hopkins 5
2 Johns Hopkins 19
  Stony Brook 9

Box scores

Finals

#1 Loyola Maryland vs. Maryland

Team1234Total
Loyola23139
Maryland12003
  • Loyola scoring – Eric Lusby 4, Mike Sawyer, Pat Byrnes, Davis Butts, Justin Ward, Phil Dobson
  • Maryland scoring – Mike Chanenchuk, Jesse Bernhardt, Kevin Cooper
  • Shots: Loyola 32, Maryland 29
  • Saves: Maryland 8, Loyola 7

Semifinals

#1 Loyola Maryland vs. #4 Notre Dame

Team1234Total
Loyola23207
Notre Dame12025
  • Loyola scoring – Eric Lusby 5, Josh Hawkins, Davis Butts
  • Notre Dame scoring – Westy Hopkins 2, Nicholas Beattie, Sean Rogers, Jim Marlatt
  • Shots: Loyola 28, Notre Dame 28
  • Saves: Loyola 15 , Notre Dame 13

#3 Duke vs. Maryland

Team1234Total
Maryland343616
Duke223310
  • Maryland scoring - Drew Snider 4, Owen Blye 3, Billy Gribbin 2, Kevin Forster 2, Kevin Cooper, Joe Cummings, John Haus, Mike Chanenchuk, Sean McGuire
  • Duke scoring – Justin Turri 2, Robert Rotanz 2, Josh Dionne, Christian Walsh, CJ Costabile, Josh Offit, Eddie Loftus, Andrew Vekstein
  • Shots: Duke 32, Maryland 29
  • Shots: Maryland 10, Duke 7
  • Attendance: 31,774

Quarterfinals

#1 Loyola Maryland vs. #8 Denver

Team1234Total
Loyola243110
Denver22239
  • Loyola scoring – Eric Lusby 5, Josh Hawkins, Davis Butts
  • Denver scoring – Rob Guida 3, Holden Cattoni 3, Connor Reed, Wells Stanwick, Ryan Brown, Brandon Benn, John Crawley
  • Shots: Loyola 44, Denver 35
  • Saves: Loyola 44, Denver 35

First round

#1 Loyola Maryland vs. Canisius

Team1234Total
Loyola405817
Canisius03025
  • Loyola scoring – Mike Sawyer 5, Eric Lusby 3, Davis Butts 2, Scott Ratliff 2, Chris Layne, Pat Byrnes, Justin Ward, Tyler Foley, Will Fredericks
  • Canisius scoring – Jimmy Haney 3, Brandon Bull, Travis Gibbons
  • Shots: Loyola 47, Canisius 22
  • Shots: Canisius 12, Loyola 2

#8 Denver vs. North Carolina

Team1234Total
Denver22159
North Carolina10005
  • Denver scoring – Erik Adamson 2, Zach Miller 2, Jeremy Noble, Jack Bobzein, Wesley Berg, Dallas Bridle, Sean Cannizzarro
  • North Carolina scoring – Thomas Dour
  • Shots: Denver 41, North Carolina 16

All-tournament team

Leading scorers

Leading Scorers
NameGPGAPts
Eric Lusby, Loyola417522
Jeremy Noble, Denver25813
Justin Turri, Duke36612
Robert Rotanz, Duke310111
Steele Stanwick, Virginia2369
Jay Jalbert, Virginia38412
Tucker Radebaugh, Virginia37512
Drew McKnight, Virginia36511
Dan Denihan, Johns Hopkins29211
Mike Henehan, Georgetown37411
Greg McCavera, Georgetown36511

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