NCAA Division I women's lacrosse tournament explained

Current Season:	2024 NCAA Division I women's lacrosse tournament
Pixels:	200px
Sport:	Women's college lacrosse
Founded:	1982
Teams:	29
Country:	United States
Champion:	Boston College (2nd Title)
Most Champs:	Maryland (14 Titles)
Tv:	ESPN, ESPNU, ESPN+
Website:	NCAA.com

The annual NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship tournament has determined the top women's lacrosse team in the NCAA Division I since 1982. The Maryland Terrapins are the most successful team with fourteen titles. The most recent championship was won by Boston College.

History

Lacrosse was one of twelve women's sports added to the NCAA championship program for the 1981-82 school year, as the NCAA engaged in battle with the AIAW for sole governance of women's collegiate sports. The AIAW continued to conduct its established championship program in the same twelve (and other) sports; however, after a year of dual women's championships, the AIAW held its last championship in 1982 and ceased operation.

Separate championships are held for Division II, founded in 2001, and Division III, founded in 1985.^[1]

Results

See Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women Champions for the women's lacrosse champions from 1978 to 1982. NOTE: In 1982 there were both NCAA and AIAW Division I champions.

style= colspan=8	NCAA Division I women's lacrosse tournament
Year	Site	Stadium		Championship Results
				Champion	Score	Runner-Up
1982 Details	Trenton, NJ (Trenton State)	Lions Stadium		Massachusetts	9–6
1983 Details	Philadelphia, PA (Penn)	Franklin Field		Delaware	10–7
1984 Details	Boston, MA (Boston U.)	Nickerson Field		Temple	6–4
1985 Details	Philadelphia, PA (Penn)	Franklin Field		New Hampshire	6–5
1986 Details	College Park, MD (Maryland)	Byrd Stadium		Maryland	6–5
1987 Details	College Park, MD (Maryland)	Byrd Stadium		Penn State	7–6
1988 Details	Haverford, PA (Haverford)	Walton Field		Temple (2)	15–7
1989 Details	West Chester, PA (West Chester)	John A. Farrell Stadium		Penn State (2)	7–6
1990 Details	Princeton, NJ (Princeton)	Palmer Stadium		Harvard	8–7
1991 Details	Trenton, NJ (Trenton State)	Lions Stadium		Virginia	8–6
1992 Details	Bethlehem, PA (Lehigh)	Goodman Stadium		Maryland (2)	11–10 (OT)
1993 Details	College Park, MD (Maryland)	Byrd Stadium		Virginia (2)	8–6 (OT)	Princeton
1994 Details	College Park, MD (Maryland)	Byrd Stadium		Princeton	10–7
1995 Details	Trenton, NJ (Trenton State)	Lions Stadium		Maryland (3)	13–5	Princeton
1996 Details	Bethlehem, PA (Lehigh)	Goodman Stadium		Maryland (4)	10–5	Virginia
1997 Details	Bethlehem, PA (Lehigh)	Goodman Stadium		Maryland (5)	8–7	Loyola (MD)
1998 Details	Catonsville, MD (UMBC)			Maryland (6)	11–5	Virginia
1999 Details	Baltimore, MD (Johns Hopkins)			Maryland (7)	16–6	Virginia
2000 Details	Trenton, NJ (TCNJ)	Lions Stadium		Maryland (8)	16–8	Princeton
2001 Details	Baltimore, MD (Johns Hopkins)			Maryland (9)	14–13 (3OT)	Georgetown
2002 Details	Baltimore, MD (Loyola)	Diane Geppi-Aikens Field		Princeton (2)	12–7	Georgetown
2003 Details	Syracuse, NY (Syracuse)	Carrier Dome		Princeton (3)	8–7 (OT)	Virginia
2004 Details	Princeton, NJ (Princeton)	Princeton Stadium		Virginia (3)	10–4	Princeton
2005 Details	Annapolis, MD (Navy)	Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium		Northwestern	13–10	Virginia
2006 Details	Boston, MA (Boston U.)	Nickerson Field		Northwestern (2)	7–4	Dartmouth
2007 Details	Philadelphia, PA (Penn)	Franklin Field		Northwestern (3)	15–13	Virginia
2008 Details	Towson, MD (Towson)	Johnny Unitas Stadium		Northwestern (4)	10–6	Penn
2009 Details	Towson, MD (Towson)	Johnny Unitas Stadium		Northwestern (5)	21–7	North Carolina
2010 Details	Towson, MD (Towson)	Johnny Unitas Stadium		Maryland (10)	13–11	Northwestern
2011 Details	Stony Brook, NY (Stony Brook)	Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium		Northwestern (6)	8–7
2012 Details	Stony Brook, NY (Stony Brook)	Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium		Northwestern (7)	8–6
2013 Details	Villanova, PA (Villanova)	Villanova Stadium		North Carolina	13–12 (3OT)
2014 Details	Towson, MD (Towson)	Johnny Unitas Stadium		Maryland (11)	15–12
2015 Details	Chester, PA (Saint Joseph's)	PPL Park		Maryland (12)	9–8	North Carolina
2016 Details	Chester, PA (Saint Joseph's)	Talen Energy Stadium		North Carolina (2)	13–7	Maryland
2017 Details	Foxborough, MA (UMass)	Gillette Stadium		Maryland (13)	16–13	Boston College
2018 Details	Stony Brook, NY (Stony Brook)	Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium			James Madison	16–15	Boston College
2019 Details	Baltimore, MD (Johns Hopkins)			Maryland (14)	12–10	Boston College
2020	Baltimore, MD (Johns Hopkins)			Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Details	Towson, MD (Towson)	Johnny Unitas Stadium		Boston College	16–10
2022 Details	Baltimore, MD (Johns Hopkins)			North Carolina (3)	12–11	Boston College
2023 Details	Cary, NC (North Carolina)			Northwestern (8)	18–6	Boston College
2024 Details		Cary, NC (North Carolina)			Boston College (2)	14-13	Northwestern
2025 Details	Foxborough, MA (Harvard)	Gillette Stadium
2026 Details	TBD	TBD

Team titles

Team	Number	Winning years
style=		14	1986, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019
style=		8	2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2023
style=		3	1991, 1993, 2004
style=		3	1994, 2002, 2003
style=		3	2013, 2016, 2022
style=		2	1984, 1988
style=		2	1987, 1989
	2	2021, 2024
style=		1	1982
style=		1	1983
style=		1	1985
style=		1	1990
style=		1	2018

Results by year

• National Champion
• National Runner-up
• Semifinals
• Quarterfinals
• Round of 12 (1983 through 1984, 1998 through 2000); Round of 16 (2001 through present)
• First Round (2013 to present)
• Opening Round (2018 through 2019)
• Play-in Game (2004 through 2012. Unlike the Opening Round game of 2018 and 2019, the losers of these Play-in Games are not considered by the NCAA to have been NCAA participants. They appear in the table below, but not counted as having an appearance in the total column.)

The NCAA began seeding the top 4 teams in 1998. The No. 1 seed is marked with, and teams seeded between No. 2 and No. 4 are shown with . Starting in 2005, the top 8 teams were seeded. Teams seeded between No. 5 and No. 8 are shown with .

	SF	CH	School	82	83	84	85	86	87	88	89	90	91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	21	22	23	24	Current Conference
39	28	14																																												Big Ten
25	15	8																																												Big Ten
36	14	3																																												ACC
25	13	3																																												ACC
29	11	3																																												Ivy League
26	11	2																																												Big Ten
18	9	2																																												American
12	7	1																																												ACC
9	5	1																																												Ivy League
14	3	1																																												Atlantic 10
7	3	1																																												America East
20	2	1																																												Colonial
3	2	1																																												Colonial
21	10	-																																												ACC
25	7	-																																												Patriot
22	7	-																																												ACC
15	4	-																																												Ivy League
17	3	-																																												Ivy League
16	3	-																																												Big East
13	2	-																																												American
17	1	-																																												ACC
8	1	-																																												Big East
7	1	-																																												American
7	1	-																																												Patriot
5	1	-																																												Ivy League
4	1	-																																												Patriot
1	1	-																																												D3
12	-	-																																												Big Ten
12	-	-																																												Pac-12
11	-	-																																												Colonial
11	-	-																																												America East
9	-	-																																												ASUN
8	-	-																																												Patriot
8	-	-																																												MAAC
7	-	-																																												Colonial
7	-	-																																												Atlantic 10
6	-	-																																												Big South
6	-	-																																												Pac-12
6	-	-																																												Big South
5	-	-																																												America East
4	-	-																																												Ivy League
4	-	-																																												Big Ten
4	-	-																																												Patriot
4	-	-																																												NEC
4	-	-																																												MAAC
4	-	-																																												Big East
4	-	-																																												ACC
4	-	-																																												Big Ten
4	-	-																																												Colonial
3	-	-																																												Big Ten
3	-	-																																												MAAC
3	-	-																																												Colonial
3	-	-																																												D2
3	-	-																																												NEC
3	-	-																																												NEC
3	-	-																																												Pac-12
2	-	-																																												D2
2	-	-																																												America East
2	-	-																																												Patriot
2	-	-																																												Big South
2	-	-																																												MAC
2	-	-																																												MAC
1	-	-																																												Patriot
1	-	-																																												Patriot
1	-	-																																												MAAC
1	-	-																																												American
1	-	-																																												Colonial
1	-	-																																												ACC
1	-	-																																												Atlantic 10
1	-	-																																												America East
1	-	-																																												Patriot
1	-	-																																												Big East
1	-	-																																												NEC
1	-	-																																												America East
1	-	-																																												ASUN
1	-	-																																												NEC
1	-	-																																												MAAC
-	-	-																																												MAAC
-	-	-																																												MAAC
-	-	-																																												Pac-12

All-time record

Source: ^[2]

as of end of 2023 championship

• indicates schools belong to Division II and indicates a school belongs to Division III.

Team													Notes
Albany	5	0	0	0	0	7	2	5		57	79	-22
American	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1		3	19	-16
Army	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1		8	12	-4
Boston College	11	1	5	0	0	33	23	10		475	370	105
Boston University	8	0	0	0	0	10	2	8		86	107	-21
Bryant	3	0	0	0	0	3	0	3		18	59	-41
Canisius	4	0	0	0	0	4	0	4		37	59	-22
Central Michigan	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	2		13	35	-22
Colgate	4	0	0	0	0	4	0	4		23	66	-43
Connecticut	4	0	0	0	0	4	0	4		38	60	-22
Cornell	5	0	0	1	0	9	4	5		94	90	4
Colorado	3	0	0	0	0	5	2	3		64	78	-14
Dartmouth	15	0	1	3	0	26	11	15		226	256	-30
Delaware	3	1	0	1	0	9	7	2		83	69	14	Wins championship in its first appearance
Denver	7	0	0	1	0	17	10	7		164	187	-23
Drexel	3	0	0	0	0	3	0	3		23	43	-20
Duke	21	0	0	7	0	48	27	21		543	495	48
Elon	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1		9	11	-2
Fairfield	7	0	0	0	0	7	0	7		54	103	-49
Florida	12	0	0	1	0	25	13	12		323	265	58
Georgetown	16	0	2	1	0	31	15	16		324	322	2
Harvard	9	1	2	2	0	15	7	8		123	116	7
High Point	6	0	0	0	0	7	1	6		59	124	-65
Hofstra	3	0	0	0	0	3	0	3		22	43	-21
Holy Cross	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	2		9	37	-28
Jacksonville	9	0	0	0	0	12	3	9		142	160	-18
James Madison	19	1	0	1	0	34	16	18		346	368	-22
Johns Hopkins	11	0	0	0	0	14	3	11		138	182	-44
Lafayette	4	0	0	0	0	4	0	4		29	50	-21
Lehigh	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	1		17	22	-5
Le Moyne	3	0	0	0	0	3	0	3		12	67	-55
Louisville	4	0	0	0	0	5	1	4		37	58	-21
Loyola (MD)	24	0	1	6	0	48	24	24		520	465	55
Marist	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1		5	20	-15
Marquette	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1		8	18	-10
Maryland	38	14	8	6	0	100	76	24		1279	822	457	Seven consecutive champion, two consecutive champion
Massachusetts	14	1	0	0	2	24	9	15		195	281	-86
Mercer	5	0	0	0	0	5	0	5		39	98	-59
Michigan	3	0	0	0	0	6	3	3		67	58	9
Monmouth	3	0	0	0	0	3	0	3		17	53	-36
Mount St. Mary's	4	0	0	0	0	4	0	4		23	71	-48
Navy	7	0	0	1	0	14	7	7		178	179	-1
New Hampshire	7	1	0	2	0	10	4	6		73	84	-11
North Carolina	24	3	2	8	0	63	42	21		774	621	153
Northwestern	24	8	1	5	0	70	54	16		917	658	259	Five consecutive champion, two consecutive champion
Notre Dame	16	0	0	1	0	28	12	16		317	317	0
Ohio State	4	0	0	0	0	5	1	4		46	63	-17
Old Dominion	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1		5	16	-11
Penn	16	0	1	2	0	31	15	16		283	309	-26
Penn State	25	2	2	7	0	46	23	23		457	457	0
Princeton	28	3	4	4	0	64	39	25		689	586	103	Two consecutive champion
Richmond	6	0	0	0	0	7	1	6		73	106	-33
Robert Morris	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1		0	16	-16
Rutgers	3	0	0	0	0	5	2	3		54	65	-11
Sacred Heart	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1		5	16	-11
Saint Joseph's	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1		10	17	-7
Stanford	11	0	0	0	0	13	2	11		112	173	-61
Stony Brook	10	0	0	0	0	22	12	10		238	199	39
Syracuse	20	0	3	6	0	46	26	20		560	505	55
Temple	18	2	2	5	0	30	14	16		276	320	-44
Towson	11	0	0	0	0	13	2	11		137	177	-40
Trenton State	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1		6	9	-3
UMBC	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	2		9	40	-31
USC	6	0	0	0	0	10	4	6		117	123	-6
Vanderbilt	7	0	0	1	0	9	2	7		83	114	-31
Vermont	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1		3	16	-13
Virginia	35	3	6	5	0	71	39	32		770	736	34
Virginia Tech	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	1		21	27	-6
Wagner	3	0	0	0	0	5	2	3		48	74	-26
West Chester	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	2		14	41	-27
William & Mary	7	0	0	0	0	7	0	7		41	75	-34
Winthrop	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	2		12	34	-22
Yale	3	0	0	0	0	4	1	3		28	37	-9

See also

• NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship bids by school
• AIAW Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Champions
• NCAA Division II Women's Lacrosse Championship (from 2001)
• NCAA Division III Women's Lacrosse Championship (from 1985)
• NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship

External links

• Division I women's lacrosse

Notes and References

1. http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/w_lacrosse_champs_records/2012/d1/champs.pdf
2. Web site: Division I Women's Lacrosse Championships Records Book . NCAA . July 19, 2017.