2012 NCAA Division I women's lacrosse tournament

none Women's 2012 May 12–27, 2012 16 LaValle Stadium Stony Brook, New York Northwestern 7th Syracuse Shannon Smith Northwestern The 2012 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship was the thirty-first annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national championship for National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I women's college lacrosse. The tournament began with first-round play on May 12, and concluded with the championship game played at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium of Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York, on May 27, 2012. The Northwestern Wildcats were the 2012 NCAA Tournament champions. Dates and locations The NCAA Tournament's eight first-round games were played Saturday, May 12, and Sunday, May 13, and the four quarterfinal games were played Saturday, May 19, and Sunday, May 20. The tournament's first-round and quarterfinal games were played on the home fields of the higher seeded teams. The winners of the four quarterfinal games advanced to the two semifinal games played on May 25 and hosted by Stony Brook University at LaValle Stadium, the home field of the Stony Brook Seawolves football and lacrosse teams. The tournament championship game was played at LaValle Stadium on May 27. Tournament field The NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Committee selected sixteen teams to compete in the 2012 Division I women's lacrosse tournament." Northwestern leads DI selections https://web.archive.org/web/20160304202513/http://www.ncaa.com/news/lacrosse-women/article/2012-05-06/northwestern-leads-di-selections 2016-03-04 ," NCAA.com (May 6, 2012). Retrieved May 16, 2012. Eight teams were selected on an "automatic qualifier" basis. The tournament champions of five conferences, including the America East Conference, the American Lacrosse Conference (ALC), the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), the Big East Conference and the Ivy League, received automatic invitations to the NCAA Tournament. These five teams included the Albany Great Danes of the America East, the No. 1 seed Florida Gators of the ALC, the No. 3 seed Maryland Terrapins of the ACC, the No. 6 seed Loyola Greyhounds of the Big East, and the Dartmouth Big Green of the Ivy League. In addition, three play-in games were held to determine the last three automatic qualifiers. The champions of the Patriot League, the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA), the Northeast Conference (NEC), the Atlantic 10 Conference, and the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) competed in the play-in games. The Patriot League's Navy Midshipmen defeated the Oregon Ducks of the Mountain Pacific, the CAA's Towson Tigers beat the NEC's Monmouth Hawks, and the Atlantic 10's UMass Minutemen defeated the Canisius Golden Griffins of the MAAC, with the winners receiving the final three automatic qualifier bids. The remaining eight tournament teams were chosen by the NCAA tournament selection committee on an at-large basis; the factors considered by the selection committee included: (1) the NCAA's ratings percentage index (RPI); (2) results against common opponents; (3) significant wins and losses; and (4) evaluation of the ten highest-rated teams on a team's schedule, as defined by strength of schedule and winning percentage.LaxPower.com, WD1 NCAA Tournament Selection CriteriaAugust 2026 InternetArchiveBot . Retrieved May 16, 2012. The eight at-large teams selected by the committee were the No. 2 seed Northwestern Wildcats, No. 4 seed Syracuse Orange, No. 5 seed North Carolina Tar Heels, and No. 7 seed Duke Blue Devils, as well as the unseeded Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Penn Quakers, Penn State Nittany Lions, and Virginia Cavaliers.NCAA.com, Women's Lacrosse, Division I, 2012 Lacrosse Championship. Retrieved May 14, 2012. Eight conferences placed member teams in the 2012 tournament, but four conferences dominated the selections, garnering twelve invitations in the sixteen-team field. The ACC received four bids (Maryland, North Carolina, Duke, and Virginia), the ALC got three (Florida, Northwestern, Penn State), the Big East also received three (Syracuse, Loyola, Notre Dame), and the Ivy League got two (Dartmouth, Penn). The ACC, ALC and Big East also dominated the tournament seeding, with member teams receiving the top seven seeds. Play-in games left May 5 175   Navy (Patriot, 17–2) 10   Oregon (MPSF, 14–4) 9 left May 5 175   Towson (CAA, 15–3) 15   Monmouth (NEC, 9–10) 5 left May 6 175   Massachusetts (A-10, 18–1) 13   Canisius (MAAC, 10–8) 12 Teams Seed School Conference Berth type RPIhttps://extra.ncaa.org/solutions/rpi/Stats%20Library/2012%20WLAX%20-%20May%206,%202012%20-%20Nitty%20Gritty.pdf 2012 WLax – May 6, 2012 Nitty Gritty NCAA November 17, 2017 Record1 Florida ALCAutomatic217–22 Northwestern ALCAt-large117–23 Maryland ACCAutomatic417–34 Syracuse Big EastAt-large316–35 North Carolina ACCAt-large514–36 Loyola (MD) Big EastAutomatic1013–57 Duke ACCAt-large711–68 Towson CAAAutomatic816–3 Albany America EastAutomatic2912–5 DartmouthIvy LeagueAutomatic1212–4 Massachusetts Atlantic 10Automatic619–1 NavyPatriot LeagueAutomatic1318–2 Notre Dame Big EastAt-large1113–4 Penn Ivy League At-large149–7 Penn State ALCAt-large1711–6 Virginia ACCAt-large911–7 Tournament bracket The 2012 NCAA Tournament bracket consisted of sixteen teams, eight of whom were seeded No. 1 through No. 8. In the first round of the tournament, each of the eight seeded teams was paired with one of the eight unseeded teams.Katherine Dunn, " Lacrosse Insider: Women's D-I field may be tighter than ever at the top," The Baltimore Sun (May 7, 2012). Retrieved May 16, 2012. First RoundMay 12–13 QuarterfinalsMay 19–20 SemifinalsMay 25 FinalMay 27 1   Florida Albany 6 4   8 Penn State Towson 15 8 5   North Carolina Navy 14 7   4 Dartmouth Syracuse 5 15 3   Maryland Massachusetts 15 12   6 Penn Loyola 9 10 7   Duke Virginia 11 9   2 Notre Dame Northwestern 7 12 1   Florida Penn State 15 2 5 North Carolina 4 Syracuse 16 17 3 Maryland 6 Loyola 17 11 7 Duke 2 Northwestern 7 12 1 Florida 4 Syracuse 13 14 3 Maryland 2 Northwestern 7 9 4 Syracuse 2 Northwestern 6 8 See also NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship 2012 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship References NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship Category:NCAA women's lacrosse tournaments Category:Women's sports in New York (state) Category:Lacrosse in New York (state)