2006_NCAA_Division_I_Men's_Lacrosse_Championship

2006 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament

2006 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament

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The 2006 NCAA Division I lacrosse tournament was the 36th 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 2006 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse season.[2]

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Virginia won the national title with a 15–7 win over Massachusetts.[3] The Cavaliers, led by Matt Ward and Ben Rubeor, completed a perfect 17-0 record and won their fourth NCAA championship and sixth overall national lacrosse title. The Minutemen became the second unseeded team to make the NCAA final (Towson State also accomplished this in 1991).

The semifinals and the championship game were played at Lincoln Financial Field, the home of the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a crowd of 47,062 fans in attendance.[4]

Qualifying

Main article: 2006 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse season

Sixteen NCAA Division I college men's lacrosse teams met after having played their way through a regular season, and for some, a conference tournament.

Denver made their debut appearance in the Division I men's lacrosse tournament.

Bracket

First Round
May 13–14, 2006 		Quarterfinals
May 20–21, 2006 		Semifinals
May 27, 2006 		Final
May 29, 2006
            
1 Virginia 14
Notre Dame 10
1 Virginia 20
8 Georgetown 8
Navy 7
8 Georgetown 9
1 Virginia 17
5 Syracuse 10
5 Syracuse 11
Harvard 4
5 Syracuse 13
4 Johns Hopkins 12
Penn 3
4 Johns Hopkins 13
1 Virginia 15
Massachusetts 7
3 Hofstra 14
Providence 8
Massachusetts 11*
3 Hofstra 10
Massachusetts 10
6 Cornell 9
Massachusetts 8
2 Maryland 5
7 Princeton 11
UMBC 8
7 Princeton 6
2 Maryland 11
Denver 8
2 Maryland 16
  • * = Overtime

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "LaxPower Mobile". Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-07-13.
  2. [2]
    "DIVISION I MEN'S LACROSSE CHAMPIONSHIPS RECORDS BOOK" (PDF). NCAA.org. NCAA. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  3. [3]
    "NCAA Lacrosse Division I Results / Records" (PDF). NCAA. p. 3 (51). Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  4. [4]
    "Attendance Figures for the NCAA Men's Championships". LaxPower.com. Archived from the original on 10 June 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-25.


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