The 2011 NCAA Division I lacrosse tournament was the 41st 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 2011 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse season.[2] The tournament was held from May 14–30, 2011.
| 2011 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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Virginia won its fifth NCAA lacrosse championship and seventh college title overall, defeating Maryland 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 the 1986 championship.[3]
The championship game was played at M&T Bank Stadium, the home of the NFL's Baltimore Ravens, in Baltimore, Maryland, with a crowd of 35,661 fans.
Overview
editDuring the tournament, Virginia head coach Dom Starsia became the winningest coach in Division I men's lacrosse history, earning his 327th career win in the quarterfinals against Cornell, surpassing Jack Emmer's record of 326. In addition, the first-round match between Denver and Villanova, 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 the Mississippi River.[4]
Qualifying
editSixteen 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.
Bracket
edit| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
- * = Overtime
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "LaxPower Mobile". Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-07-13.
- ^ "DIVISION I MEN'S LACROSSE CHAMPIONSHIPS RECORDS BOOK" (PDF). NCAA.org. NCAA. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
- ^ "Men's Lacrosse: Virginia Upsets Cornell, 13-9, For Final Four Berth". Archived from the original on 2011-05-25. Retrieved 2011-05-22.
- ^ Voepel, Mechelle (May 13, 2011). "Defense is key to Pioneers' hopes". ESPN.com. Retrieved May 14, 2011.
External links
edit- Tournament statistics via NCAA