2018 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament

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2018 NCAA Division I men's
lacrosse tournament
Teams17
Finals site Gillette Stadium
Foxborough, MA
Champions Yale (1st title)
Runner-up Duke
Semifinalists Albany
Maryland
MOPBen Reeves (11g 14a)
Attendance30,616 semi-finals
29,455 finals
60,071 total
Top scorerBen Reeves, Yale
(11 goals)
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The 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship weekend was the 48th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national championship for National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's college lacrosse.

Contents

Seventeen teams competed in the tournament, based upon their performance during the regular season. For nine teams, entry into the tournament was by means of a conference tournament automatic qualifier and/or play in, while for eight teams at-large selection was determined by the NCAA selection committee.

Yale controlled the tournament finals from start to finish, though Duke kept the game suspenseful to the end. This was Yale’s first NCAA lacrosse title and second title overall. Yale's Ben Reeves tied Eamon McEneaney’s 1977 record for most points in an NCAA tournament with 25 points. McEneaney set the record in three tournament games. This was the sixth national championship game for Duke since 2005.

Teams

SeedSchoolConferenceBerth TypeRPI [1] Record
1 Maryland Big Ten At-large112–3
2 Albany America East Automatic214–2
3 Yale Ivy At-large613–3
4 Duke ACC At-large513–3
5 Johns Hopkins Big Ten Automatic311–4
6 Loyola Patriot Automatic712–3
7 Notre Dame ACC At-large49–5
8 Syracuse ACC At-large108–6
Denver Big East At-large812–3
Cornell Ivy Automatic912–4
Virginia ACC At-large1112–5
Villanova Big East At-large1210–5
Georgetown Big East Automatic1312–4
Robert Morris Northeast Automatic1912–4
Massachusetts CAA Automatic2112–4
Richmond Southern Automatic2911–5
Canisius MAAC Automatic498–8

Bracket

Opening Round
May 9th
   
Canisius 6
Robert Morris 12
First Round
May 12–13

Campus sites: seeded teams host

Quarterfinals
May 20

Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium
Annapolis, MD
May 19
James M. Shuart Stadium
Hempstead, NY

Semifinals
May 26

Gillette Stadium

Championship
May 28

Gillette Stadium

            
1 Maryland 14
Robert Morris 11
1 Maryland13
Cornell 8
8 Syracuse 9
Cornell 10
1 Maryland 8
4 Duke13
5 Johns Hopkins 10
Georgetown 9
5 Johns Hopkins 9
4 Duke14
4 Duke 17
Villanova 11
4 Duke 11
3 Yale13
3 Yale 15
UMass 13
3 Yale8
6 Loyola 5
6 Loyola 14
Virginia 12
3 Yale20
2 Albany 11
7 Notre Dame 7
Denver 9
Denver 13
2 Albany15
2 Albany 18
Richmond 9

Media coverage

Radio

Westwood One provided nationwide radio coverage of the semifinals and championship. It was once again streamed online at westwoodsports.com, through TuneIn, and on SiriusXM. Dave Ryan, Mark Dixon and Jason Horowitz provided the call for Westwood One.

Television

Every game of the 2018 Men's Lacrosse Championship was broadcast on the ESPN Networks (ESPN3- Opening Round, ESPNU- First Round and Quarterfinals, ESPN2- Semifinals and National Championship).

Broadcast Assignments

Opening Round

  • Andy Helwig & Sean Sharman - Buffalo, NY

First Round

  • Jay Alter & Ryan Boyle- New Haven, CT
  • Booker Corrigan & Mark Dixon- College Park, MD
  • Mike Corey & Don Zimmerman- Durham, NC
  • John Brickley & Matt Ward- South Bend, IN
  • Chris Cotter, Paul Carcaterra, & Ric Beardsley (Syracuse only)- Albany and Syracuse, NY
  • Anish Shroff & Quint Kessenich- Baltimore, MD

Quarterfinals, Semifinals, & National Championship

  • Anish Shroff, Quint Kessenich, & Paul Carcaterra

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References

  1. "nitty 2018selections" (PDF). NCAA. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
  2. "Time to Face-Off: ESPN Presents Entire NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship". ESPN Media Zone. May 8, 2018. Retrieved May 8, 2018.