| 2015 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teams | 18 | ||||
| Finals site | Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia, PA | ||||
| Champions | Denver (1st title) | ||||
| Runner-up | Maryland (12th title game) | ||||
| Semifinalists | Johns Hopkins (29th Final Four) Notre Dame (5th Final Four) | ||||
| Winning coach | Bill Tierney (7th title) | ||||
| MOP | Wesley Berg, Denver | ||||
| Attendance | 29,123 semi-finals 24,215 finals 53,338 total | ||||
| Top scorer | Wesley Berg, Denver (16 goals) | ||||
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The2015 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship was the 45th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national championship forNational Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)Division I men'scollege lacrosse. Eighteen teams competed in the tournament, selected by winning an automatic qualifying conference tournament or as an at-large team based upon their performance during the regular season. The 18 teams were announced on May 3.
The first round and play-in games were played at campus sites. The quarterfinal games were played on May 16 and 17, 2015 atNavy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium inAnnapolis, Maryland (hosted by theUnited States Naval Academy), andSports Authority Field at Mile High inDenver (hosted by theUniversity of Denver).
The semifinals were played on May 23, 2015, and the championship on May 25, 2015. The semifinals and championship were held atLincoln Financial Field inPhiladelphia, and were hosted byDrexel University.[1]
Schools from 10 conferences, theAmerica East Conference,Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC),Big East Conference,Colonial Athletic Association (CAA),Big Ten Conference,Ivy League,Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC),Northeast Conference (NEC),Patriot League, andSouthern Conference (SoCon) were eligible for automatic bids into the tournament by winning their respective conference tournaments, leaving eight remaining at-large bids for top ranked teams.[2]
Albany (America East),Bryant (NEC),Denver (Big East),Johns Hopkins (Big Ten),Towson (CAA),Colgate (Patriot),Syracuse (ACC),Yale (Ivy),High Point (Southern Conference) andMarist (MAAC) were the 10 schools that received the tournament's automatic bids.
| Seed | School | Conference | Berth Type | RPI[3] | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Notre Dame | ACC | At-large | 2 | 10-2 |
| 2 | Syracuse | ACC | Automatic | 1 | 12-2 |
| 3 | North Carolina | ACC | At-large | 3 | 12-3 |
| 4 | Denver | Big East | Automatic | 5 | 13-2 |
| 5 | Duke | ACC | At-large | 4 | 12-5 |
| 6 | Maryland | Big Ten | Automatic | 7 | 12-3 |
| 7 | Virginia | ACC | At-large | 6 | 10-4 |
| 8 | Cornell | Ivy | At-large | 10 | 10-5 |
| Albany | America East | Automatic | 8 | 15-2 | |
| Yale | Ivy | Automatic | 9 | 11-4 | |
| Johns Hopkins | Big Ten | At-large | 11 | 9-6 | |
| Colgate | Patriot | Automatic | 13 | 10-5 | |
| Brown | Ivy | At-large | 14 | 12-4 | |
| Ohio State | Big Ten | At-large | 15 | 11-6 | |
| Towson | CAA | Automatic | 20 | 11-5 | |
| Marist | MAAC | Automatic | 21 | 13-3 | |
| High Point | Southern | Automatic | 27 | 10-6 | |
| Bryant | Northeast | Automatic | 28 | 8-9 |
The Denver Pioneers beat Maryland 10–5 for the school's first national championship, and also the first-ever NCAA men's lacrosse title for a school located outside theEastern Time Zone.
Wesley Berg was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player, scoring the overtime winning goal in the semifinals. This wasBill Tierney's first championship since he won with Princeton in 2001, and seventh overall coaching title.
| Play-in game May 6 | ||||
| Towson | 10 | |||
| High Point | 8 | |||
| Play-in game May 6 | ||||
| Bryant | 6 | |||
| Marist | 10 | |||
| First Round May 9–10 | Quarterfinals May 16–17 Sports Authority Field at Mile High Navy Marine Corps Stadium | Semifinals May 23 Lincoln Financial Field | Final May 25 Lincoln Financial Field | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Notre Dame | 12 | |||||||||||||||||
| Towson | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Notre Dame | 14 | |||||||||||||||||
| Albany | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Cornell | 10 | |||||||||||||||||
| Albany | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Notre Dame | 10 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Denver | 11* | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Denver | 15 | |||||||||||||||||
| Brown | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Denver | 15 | |||||||||||||||||
| Ohio State | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Duke | 11 | |||||||||||||||||
| Ohio State | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Denver | 10 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Maryland | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | North Carolina | 19 | |||||||||||||||||
| Colgate | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | North Carolina | 7 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Maryland | 14 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Maryland | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
| Yale | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Maryland | 12 | |||||||||||||||||
| Johns Hopkins | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Virginia | 7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Johns Hopkins | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Johns Hopkins | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Syracuse | 15 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Syracuse | 20 | |||||||||||||||||
| Marist | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||