The 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship was the 44th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national championship for

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(NCAA) Division I men's

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. Eighteen teams competed in the tournament, selected by winning an automatic qualifying conference tournament or as an at-large bid based upon their performance during the regular season. The Divisions I men’s lacrosse committees announced the teams in the field on May 4, 2014.

Tournament overview

The tournament started on May 7, 2014 with two play-in games that were played on campus sites. The winners of the games, Bryant and

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, advanced onto the first round of the tournament. The tournament concluded with the championship game on May 29 at

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in Baltimore. Schools from ten conferences, America East, ACC, Atlantic Sun,

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, CAA, ECAC,

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, MAAC,

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, and

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, earned automatic bids into the tournament by winning their respective conference tournaments, leaving eight remaining at-large bids for top ranked teams.

(ECAC), Albany (America East), Bryant (NEC),

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(Big East), Drexel (CAA), Loyola (Patriot), Notre Dame (ACC), Penn ( Ivy), Richmond (Atlantic Sun), and

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( MAAC), were the schools that claimed automatic bids. In the finals, with Duke leading 8-2 in the third quarter, Notre Dame put together a comeback narrowing the margin to one with five minutes left in the game. Tewaaraton finalist Jordan Wolf closed out the title for Duke with an empty net goal with under a minute left. This was Duke's second straight title, their 3rd title in the prior five years, and their 8th straight final four appearance. There were several first round upsets, the most notable being Bryant and Drexel winning their first-ever NCAA tournament games, with Bryant upsetting second seeded Syracuse.

Teams

Bracket

: * = One Overtime

Tournament boxscores

Tournament Finals Tournament Semi-Finals Tournament Quarterfinals Tournament First Round

All-Tournament

* Jordan Wolf, A, Duke (Most Outstanding Player) * Henry Lobb, D, Duke * Kyle Keenan, A, Duke * Myles Jones, M, Duke * Will Haus, M, Duke * Deemer Class, A, Duke * Sergio Perkovic, M, Notre Dame * Conor Kelly, G, Notre Dame * Matt Kavanagh, A, Notre Dame * Wesley Berg, A, Denver

References

External links

Tournament statistics
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