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2012 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament
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Men's 2012 May 12–28, 2012 16 Gillette Stadium Massachusetts Foxborough, Massachusetts Loyola 1st Maryland 11th Duke 8th Notre Dame 3rd Charley Toomey Loyola Eric Lusby Loyola 31,774 30,816 http://www.laxpower.com/mobile/view_news.php?id=35712 LaxPower Mobile 2014-07-13 2014-07-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20140714125958/http://www.laxpower.com/mobile/view_news.php?id=35712 dead Eric Lusby Loyola 17
The 2012 NCAA Division I lacrosse tournament was the 42nd 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 2012 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse season.DIVISION I MEN'S LACROSSE CHAMPIONSHIPS RECORDS BOOK http://fs.ncaa.org.s3.amazonaws.com/Docs/stats/m_lacrosse_RB/D1ResultsRecs.pdf NCAA.org NCAA 7 July 2023 The tournament was played from May 12–28, 2012.
Loyola won their first ever NCAA lacrosse title, defeating unseeded Maryland, 9–3. Despite beginning the season unranked, the Greyhounds became the ninth school to win an NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse championship since tournament play began in 1971. Loyola won 12 straight games to start the season before losing their only game, an overtime loss to Johns Hopkins. The Greyhounds' Eric Lusby set a then-tournament record for goals with 17.ESPN Announces College Lacrosse Schedule for 2012 http://insidelacrosse.com/news/2012/01/23/espn-announces-college-lacrosse-schedule-2012 5 May 2012 Inside Lacrosse 23 January 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120503194613/http://insidelacrosse.com/news/2012/01/23/espn-announces-college-lacrosse-schedule-2012 3 May 2012 dead dmy-allNavy To Host The Men's Lacrosse Quarterfinals In 2012 http://www.navysports.com/sports/m-lacros/spec-rel/092110aaa.html 13 May 2012 United States Naval Academy 21 September 2010May Madness: Men's Division I Bracketology, May 6 http://insidelacrosse.com/news/2012/05/06/may-madness-mens-division-i-bracketology-may-6 6 May 2012 Inside Lacrosse 6 May 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120509055926/http://insidelacrosse.com/news/2012/05/06/may-madness-mens-division-i-bracketology-may-6 9 May 2012 dead dmy-allMen's Lacrosse: Colgate Defeats Previously Unbeaten UMass in NCAA First Round http://insidelacrosse.com/news/2012/05/12/mens-lacrosse-colgate-defeats-previously-unbeaten-umass-ncaa-first-round 13 May 2012 Inside Lacrosse 12 May 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120514063331/http://insidelacrosse.com/news/2012/05/12/mens-lacrosse-colgate-defeats-previously-unbeaten-umass-ncaa-first-round 2012-05-14 dead
The championship game was played at Gillette Stadium, the home of the NFL's New England Patriots, in Foxborough, Massachusetts, with 41,935 fans in attendance.
The United States Naval Academy hosted two quarterfinal matches on May 19 at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland. Drexel University hosted the other two quarterfinal matches on May 20 at PPL Park in Chester, Pennsylvania.
Qualifying
2012 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse season
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 automatic qualifier.
Canisius (MAAC), Lehigh (Patriot League), Loyola (ECAC), Massachusetts (CAA), Stony Brook (America East), Syracuse (Big East), and Yale (Ivy League), earned an automatic bid into the tournament by winning their respective conference tournaments. During the tournament, the Colgate Raiders won their first ever NCAA Tournament game, defeating Massachusetts by a score of 13–11.
Bracket
First RoundMay 12–13 QuarterfinalsMay 19–20 SemifinalsMay 26 FinalMay 28 25 140 35 high 1 Loyola Maryland Canisius 17 5 8 North Carolina Denver 14 16 4 Notre Dame Yale 13 7 5 Virginia Princeton 6 5 3 Duke Syracuse 12 9 6 Massachusetts Colgate 11 13 7 Lehigh Maryland 9 10 2 Johns Hopkins Stony Brook 19 9 1 Loyola Maryland Denver 10 9 4 Notre Dame 5 Virginia 12 10 3 Duke Colgate 17 6 Maryland 2 Johns Hopkins 11 5 1 Loyola Maryland 4 Notre Dame 7 5 3 Duke Maryland 10 16 1 Loyola Maryland Maryland 9 3
* = Overtime
† = Double Overtime
‡ = Triple Overtime
Box scores
Finals
#1 Loyola Maryland vs. Maryland
Team 1 2 3 4 Total Loyola 2 3 1 3 9 Maryland 1 2 0 0 3 Loyola scoring – Eric Lusby 4, Mike Sawyer, Pat Byrnes, Davis Butts, Justin Ward, Phil Dobson
Maryland scoring – Mike Chanenchuk, Jesse Bernhardt, Kevin Cooper
Shots: Loyola 32, Maryland 29
Saves: Maryland 8, Loyola 7
Semifinals
#1 Loyola Maryland vs. #4 Notre Dame
Team 1 2 3 4 Total Loyola 2 3 2 0 7 Notre Dame 1 2 0 2 5 Loyola scoring – Eric Lusby 5, Josh Hawkins, Davis Butts
Notre Dame scoring – Westy Hopkins 2, Nicholas Beattie, Sean Rogers, Jim Marlatt
Shots: Loyola 28, Notre Dame 28
Saves: Loyola 15, Notre Dame 13
#3 Duke vs. Maryland
Team 1 2 3 4 Total Maryland 3 4 3 6 16 Duke 2 2 3 3 10 Maryland scoring - Drew Snider 4, Owen Blye 3, Billy Gribbin 2, Kevin Forster 2, Kevin Cooper, Joe Cummings, John Haus, Mike Chanenchuk, Sean McGuire
Duke scoring – Justin Turri 2, Robert Rotanz 2, Josh Dionne, Christian Walsh, CJ Costabile, Josh Offit, Eddie Loftus, Andrew Vekstein
Shots: Duke 32, Maryland 29
Shots: Maryland 10, Duke 7
Attendance: 31,774
Quarterfinals
#1 Loyola Maryland vs. #8 Denver
Team 1 2 3 4 Total Loyola 2 4 3 1 10 Denver 2 2 2 3 9 Loyola scoring – Eric Lusby 5, Josh Hawkins, Davis Butts
Denver scoring – Rob Guida 3, Holden Cattoni 3, Connor Reed, Wells Stanwick, Ryan Brown, Brandon Benn, John Crawley
Shots: Loyola 44, Denver 35
Saves: Loyola 44, Denver 35
First round
#1 Loyola Maryland vs. Canisius
Team 1 2 3 4 Total Loyola 4 4 5 4 17 Canisius 3 4 3 6 16 Loyola scoring – Mike Sawyer 6, Eric Lusby 3, Davis Butts 2, Scott Ratliff 2, Chris Layne, Pat Byrnes, Tyler Foley, Will Fredericks
Canisius scoring – Jimmy Haney 5, Nick Caldiero 2, Joe Rautenstrauch 2, Justin Maderer, Brandon Bull, Travis Gibbons, Jonathan Domres, Simon Giourmetakis, Tim Edwards
Shots: Loyola 47, Canisius 22
Shots: Canisius 12, Loyola 2
#8 Denver vs. North Carolina
Team 1 2 3 4 Total Denver 22159 North Carolina 10005 Denver scoring – Erik Adamson 2, Zach Miller 2, Jeremy Noble, Jack Bobzein, Wesley Berg, Dallas Bridle, Sean Cannizzarro
North Carolina scoring – Thomas Dour
Shots: Denver 41, North Carolina 16
All-tournament team
Eric Lusby, A, Loyola (Most Outstanding Player)
Josh Hawkins, M, Loyola
Joe Fletcher, D, Loyola
Scott Ratliff, LSM, Loyola
Jack Runkel, G, Loyola
Joe Cummings, A, Maryland
Drew Snider, M, Maryland
Jesse Bernhardt, D, Maryland
Brendan J.R. Murphy, D, Canisius
C.J. Costabile, LSM, Duke
John Kemp, G, Notre Dame
Leading scorers
+ Leading ScorersNameGPGAPts Eric Lusby, Loyola 4 17 5 22 Jeremy Noble, Denver 2 5 8 13 Justin Turri, Duke 3 6 6 12 Robert Rotanz, Duke 3 10 1 11 Steele Stanwick, Virginia 2 3 6 9 Jay Jalbert, Virginia 3 8 4 12 Tucker Radebaugh, Virginia 3 7 5 12 Drew McKnight, Virginia 3 6 5 11 Dan Denihan, Johns Hopkins 2 9 2 11 Mike Henehan, Georgetown 3 7 4 11 Greg McCavera, Georgetown 3 6 5 11
See also
2012 NCAA Division I women's lacrosse tournament
2012 NCAA Division II men's lacrosse tournament
2012 NCAA Division III men's lacrosse tournament
References
External links
Tournament statistics via NCAA
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