2014_NCAA_Division_I_men's_lacrosse_tournament
The 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship was the 44th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national championship for National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's college lacrosse. 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.
| 2014 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament | |||||
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| Teams | 18 | ||||
| Finals site | M&T Bank Stadium Baltimore, MD | ||||
| Champions | Duke Blue Devils (3rd title) | ||||
| Runner-up | Notre Dame Fighting Irish (2nd title game) | ||||
| Semifinalists | Maryland Terrapins (22nd Final Four) Denver Pioneers (3rd Final Four) | ||||
| Winning coach | John Danowski (3rd title) | ||||
| MOP | Jordan Wolf, Duke | ||||
| Attendance[1] | 30,428 semi-finals 25,587 finals 56,015 total | ||||
| Top scorer | Jordan Wolf, Duke (13 goals) | ||||
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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 Air Force, advanced onto the first round of the tournament. The tournament concluded with the championship game on May 29 at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore.
Schools from ten conferences, America East, ACC, Atlantic Sun, Big East, CAA, ECAC, Ivy League, MAAC, NEC, and Patriot League, earned automatic bids into the tournament by winning their respective conference tournaments, leaving eight remaining at-large bids for top ranked teams. Air Force (ECAC), Albany (America East), Bryant (NEC), Denver (Big East), Drexel (CAA), Loyola (Patriot), Notre Dame (ACC), Penn (Ivy), Richmond (Atlantic Sun), and Siena (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.
| Seed | School | Conference | Berth Type | RPI[2] | Record |
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| Air Force | ECAC | Automatic | 28 | 10-5 | |
| Albany | America East | Automatic | 13 | 11-5 | |
| Bryant | NEC | Automatic | 22 | 14-4 | |
| Cornell | Ivy | At Large | 8 | 11-4 | |
| 5 | Denver | Big East | Automatic | 7 | 14-2 |
| Drexel | CAA | Automatic | 11 | 12-4 | |
| 1 | Duke | ACC | At Large | 3 | 13-3 |
| Harvard | Ivy | At Large | 16 | 10-6 | |
| Johns Hopkins | Independent | At Large | 12 | 10-4 | |
| 3 | Loyola | Patriot | Automatic | 4 | 15-1 |
| 7 | Maryland | ACC | At Large | 9 | 11-3 |
| North Carolina | ACC | At Large | 10 | 10-4 | |
| 6 | Notre Dame | ACC | Automatic | 5 | 9-5 |
| 4 | Penn | Ivy | Automatic | 2 | 11-3 |
| Richmond | Atlantic Sun | Automatic | 54 | 6-10 | |
| Siena | MAAC | Automatic | 27 | 11-5 | |
| 2 | Syracuse | ACC | At Large | 1 | 11-4 |
| 8 | Virginia | ACC | At Large | 6 | 10-5 |
| Play-in game May 7 | ||||
| Air Force | 13 | |||
| Richmond | 5 | |||
| Play-in game May 7 | ||||
| Bryant | 9 | |||
| Siena | 8 | |||
| First Round May 10–11 | Quarterfinals May 17–18 Delaware Stadium James M. Shuart Stadium | Semifinals May 24 M&T Bank Stadium | Final May 26 M&T Bank Stadium | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Duke | 20 | |||||||||||||||||
| Air Force | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Duke | 19 | |||||||||||||||||
| Johns Hopkins | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Virginia | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
| Johns Hopkins | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Duke | 15 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Denver | 12 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Penn | 11 | |||||||||||||||||
| Drexel | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Drexel | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Denver | 15 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Denver | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
| North Carolina | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Duke | 11 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Notre Dame | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Loyola | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Albany | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Albany | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Notre Dame | 14* | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Notre Dame | 13 | |||||||||||||||||
| Harvard | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Notre Dame | 11 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Maryland | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Maryland | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
| Cornell | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Maryland | 16 | |||||||||||||||||
| Bryant | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Syracuse | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Bryant | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
- * = One Overtime
Tournament Finals
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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| Duke | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 |
| Notre Dame | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 |
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Tournament Semi-Finals
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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| Duke | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 15 |
| Denver | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 12 |
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| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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| Notre Dame | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 11 |
| Maryland | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
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Tournament Quarterfinals
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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| Duke | 7 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 19 |
| Johns Hopkins | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 11 |
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| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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| Denver | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 15 |
| Drexel | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
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| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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| Notre Dame | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 15 |
| Albany | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 12 |
MALONEY,John 1; STENBERG,Will 1.
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| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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| Maryland | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 11 |
| Bryant | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
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Tournament First Round
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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| Duke | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 20 |
| Air Force | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
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| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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| Johns Hopkins | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 14 |
| Virginia | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
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| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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| Drexel | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 16 |
| Penn | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 11 |
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| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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| Denver | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| North Carolina | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
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| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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| Albany | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 13 |
| Loyola | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
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| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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| Notre Dame | 3 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 13 |
| Harvard | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
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| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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| Maryland | 3 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 13 |
| Harvard | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
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| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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| Bryant | 3 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| Syracuse | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
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- 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
- "Weekend Sports Attendance of 210,727 in Baltimore". May 27, 2014.
- "50414_MLA_nittygritty_ SELECTION" (PDF). NCAA. Retrieved May 26, 2019.
- Tournament statistics via NCAA