2016 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship

2016 NCAA Division I Women's
Lacrosse Championship
Dates May 13–29, 2016
Teams 26
Finals site Talen Energy Stadium
Chester, PA
Champions North Carolina (2nd title)
Runner-up Maryland (19th title game)
MOP Aly Messinger, North Carolina
NCAA Division I Women's Championships
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The 2016 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship was the 35th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of Division I NCAA women's college lacrosse. The semifinal and championship rounds were played at Talen Energy Stadium (the home of Major League Soccer's Philadelphia Union) in Chester, Pennsylvania from May 27–29, 2016.[1] All other rounds were played at campus sites, usually at the home field of the higher-seeded team, from May 13–22.

Qualification

All NCAA Division I women's lacrosse programs were eligible for this championship, and a total of 26 teams were invited to participate. 13 teams qualified automatically by winning their conference tournaments while the remaining 13 teams qualified at-large based on their regular season records.

Automatic Qualifiers

Conference Champion Record
America East Stony Brook 16–3
ACC North Carolina 16–2
Atlantic 10 Massachusetts 18–1
Atlantic Sun Old Dominion 16–3
Big East Florida 18–1
Big South Winthrop 20–2
Big Ten Maryland 19–0
CAA Towson 15–3
Ivy Cornell 13–4
MAAC Canisius 13–6
MPSF USC 19–0
NEC Wagner 10–8
Patriot Loyola (MD) 14–5

At-large Qualifiers

Team Conference Record
Boston College ACC 10–8
Duke ACC 10–8
James Madison CAA 10–9
Johns Hopkins Independent 10–7
Louisville ACC 12–5
Northwestern Big Ten 10–9
Notre Dame ACC 13–6
Penn Ivy 13–4
Penn State Big Ten 11–6
Princeton Ivy 11–5
Stanford MPSF 14–4
Syracuse ACC 17–5
Virginia ACC 9–8

Bracket

  First Round
May 13
Regional Campus Sites		 Second Round
May 15
Regional Campus Sites		 Quarterfinals
May 21–22
Campus Sites		 Semifinals
May 27
Talen Energy Stadium		 Final
May 29
Talen Energy Stadium
                                               
        
  1  Maryland* 14  
     Johns Hopkins 8  
 Virginia 10
 Johns Hopkins 12  
  1  Maryland 18  
   Massachusetts 3  
 Princeton 12  
 Massachusetts 13^  
   Massachusetts 7
    8  Cornell 6  
 Canisius 11
8  Cornell* 15  
  1  Maryland 19  
  4  Syracuse 9  
        
        
  5  USC* 14
     Stanford 8  
 Stanford 9
 James Madison 8  
  5  USC 11
  4  Syracuse 12  
 Stony Brook 11  
 Boston College 9  
   Stony Brook 6
    4  Syracuse* 7  
      
        
  1  Maryland 7
  3  North Carolina 13
        
  3  North Carolina* 15  
     Duke 10  
 Loyola (MD) 8
 Duke 14  
  3  North Carolina 10  
  6  Notre Dame 6  
 Northwestern 15  
 Louisville 5  
   Northwestern 3
    6  Notre Dame* 15  
      
        
  3  North Carolina 12
   Penn state 11  
7  Penn* 17  
 Wagner 7  
  7  Penn 12
     Towson 4  
 Towson 16
 Old Dominion 5  
  7  Penn 4
   Penn State 8  
 Penn State 16  
 Winthrop 6  
   Penn State 14
    2  Florida* 13  
      

See also

References

  1. ↑ "2016 Women's Lacrosse Championship Bracket" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. Retrieved May 9, 2016.


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