| 2011 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament | |||||
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| Dates | May 14–30, 2011 | ||||
| Teams | 16 | ||||
| Finals site | M&T Bank Stadium, Baltimore, Maryland | ||||
| Champions | Virginia (5th title) | ||||
| Runner-up | Maryland (10th title game) | ||||
| Semifinalists | Denver (1st Final Four) Duke (7th Final Four) | ||||
| Winning coach | Dom Starsia (Virginia title) | ||||
| MOP | Colin Briggs, Virginia | ||||
| Attendance[1] | 45,039 semi-finals 35,661 finals 80,700 total | ||||
| Top scorer | Steele Stanwick, Virginia (21 goals) | ||||
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The2011 NCAA Division I lacrosse tournament was the 41st annualtournament hosted by theNational Collegiate Athletic Association to determine the team champion of men'scollege lacrosse among itsDivision I programs, held at the end of the2011 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse season.[2] The tournament was held from May 14–30, 2011.
Virginia won its fifth NCAA lacrosse championship and seventh college title overall, defeatingMaryland in the title game, 9–7. Maryland became only the fourth unseeded team to reach the finals and the second unseeded in a row. This was the first all-ACC title game since the1986 championship.[3]
The championship game was played atM&T Bank Stadium, the home of the NFL'sBaltimore Ravens, inBaltimore, Maryland, with a crowd of 35,661 fans.
During the tournament, Virginia head coachDom Starsia became the winningest coach in Division I men's lacrosse history, earning his 327th career win in the quarterfinals againstCornell, surpassingJack Emmer's record of 326. In addition, the first-round match betweenDenver andVillanova, held at Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium on the DU campus on May 15, was historically notable as the first Division I men's tournament game ever to be held west of theMississippi River.[4]
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.
| First Round May 14–15 | Quarterfinals May 21–22 | Semifinals May 28 | Final May 30 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Syracuse | 10 | |||||||||||||||||
| Siena | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Syracuse | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Maryland | 6* | ||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | North Carolina | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Maryland | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Maryland | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Duke | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Notre Dame | 13 | |||||||||||||||||
| Penn | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Notre Dame | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Duke | 7 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Duke | 15 | |||||||||||||||||
| Delaware | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Maryland | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Virginia | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Johns Hopkins | 12 | |||||||||||||||||
| Hofstra | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Johns Hopkins | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Denver | 14 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Denver | 13 | |||||||||||||||||
| Villanova | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Denver | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Virginia | 14 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Virginia | 13* | |||||||||||||||||
| Bucknell | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Virginia | 13 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Cornell | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Cornell | 12 | |||||||||||||||||
| Hartford | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||