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Mens NCAA Lacrosse

The men’s NCAA Lacrosse tournament has been dominated for the last two decades by four teams: John Hopkins, Virginia, Syracuse, and Princeton, who all have won this lacrosse tournament since the early 1990’s. All of that is about to change with Duke’s Blue Devils and Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish going to do battle Monday in Baltimore at the M&T Bank Stadium for the tournament, this year giving us a guaranteed new winner for the first time in 20 years.

The ranked # 5 Duke landed its spot winning against ranked #1 team Virginia in a 14 to 13 victory – due in part to Duke’s Max Quinzani’s shot on goal with 12 seconds left in the game. This loss for Virginia is not shocking for Virginians and fans. The Virginia team has had its problems this year when midfielder George Huguely was arrested for the murder of Yeardley Love who played for the women’s lacrosse team. The unseeded Notre Dame, meanwhile won its spot by defeating #7 ranked Cornell.

These two extremely different teams – the Blue Devils and Fighting Irish – will pair off starting Monday in the championship finals. Duke can average about 13 or more goals a game and are second best in the division 1. Notre Dame has the toughest second best defense and only have allowed about 7 goals per game. Notre Dame has also only let in 17 goals in three tournament games.

This should be an exciting NCAA Lacrosse tournament indeed, with these two very unique and disparate talents on the field. Whatever the outcome, there will be a new winner on the record books for the first time in a couple of decades, and neither of these particular teams has taken this tournament since the early 70’s.

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