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.
| 2018 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teams | 17 | ||||
| Finals site | Gillette Stadium Foxborough, MA | ||||
| Champions | Yale (1st title) | ||||
| Runner-up | Duke | ||||
| Semifinalists | Albany Maryland | ||||
| MOP | Ben Reeves (11g 14a) | ||||
| Attendance | 30,616 semi-finals 29,455 finals 60,071 total | ||||
| Top scorer | Ben Reeves, Yale (11 goals) | ||||
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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
| Seed | School | Conference | Berth Type | RPI[1] | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Albany | America East | Automatic | 2 | 14–2 |
| Canisius | MAAC | Automatic | 49 | 8–8 | |
| Cornell | Ivy | Automatic | 9 | 12–4 | |
| Denver | Big East | At-large | 8 | 12-3 | |
| 4 | Duke | ACC | At-large | 5 | 13–3 |
| Georgetown | Big East | Automatic | 13 | 12–4 | |
| 5 | Johns Hopkins | Big Ten | Automatic | 3 | 11–4 |
| 6 | Loyola | Patriot | Automatic | 7 | 12–3 |
| 1 | Maryland | Big Ten | At-large | 1 | 12–3 |
| Massachusetts | CAA | Automatic | 21 | 12–4 | |
| 7 | Notre Dame | ACC | At-large | 4 | 9–5 |
| Richmond | Southern | Automatic | 29 | 11–5 | |
| Robert Morris | Northeast | Automatic | 19 | 12–4 | |
| 8 | Syracuse | ACC | At-large | 10 | 8–6 |
| Villanova | Big East | At-large | 12 | 10–5 | |
| Virginia | ACC | At-large | 11 | 12–5 | |
| 3 | Yale | Ivy | At-large | 6 | 13–3 |
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 | Semifinals May 26 Gillette Stadium | Championship May 28 Gillette Stadium | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Maryland | 14 | |||||||||||||||||
| Robert Morris | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Maryland | 13 | |||||||||||||||||
| Cornell | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Syracuse | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Cornell | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Maryland | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Duke | 13 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Johns Hopkins | 10 | |||||||||||||||||
| Georgetown | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Johns Hopkins | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Duke | 14 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Duke | 17 | |||||||||||||||||
| Villanova | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Duke | 11 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Yale | 13 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Yale | 15 | |||||||||||||||||
| UMass | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Yale | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Loyola | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Loyola | 14 | |||||||||||||||||
| Virginia | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Yale | 20 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Albany | 11 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Notre Dame | 7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Denver | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Denver | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Albany | 15 | |||||||||||||||||
| 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