2016_NCAA_Division_I_Women's_Lacrosse_Championship

2016 NCAA Division I women's
lacrosse tournament
2016 NCAA Division I women's; lacrosse tournament
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
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2016 NCAA Division I women's lacrosse tournament

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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.

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Seed	School	Conference	Berth type	RPI^[2]	Record
1	Maryland	Big Ten	Automatic	1	19–0
2	Florida	Big East	Automatic	3	18–1
3	North Carolina	ACC	Automatic	2	16–2
4	Syracuse	ACC	At-large	4	17–5
5	USC	MPSF	Automatic	6	19–0
6	Notre Dame	ACC	At-large	7	13–6
7	Penn	Ivy	At-large	8	13–4
8	Cornell	Ivy	Automatic	12	13–4
	Boston College	ACC	At-large	20	10–8
	Canisus	MAAC	Automatic	33	13–6
	Duke	ACC	At-large	18	10–8
	James Madison	CAA	At-large	22	10–9
	Johns Hopkins	Independent	At-large	24	10–7
	Louisville	ACC	At-large	16	12–5
	Loyola (MD)	Patriot	Automatic	14	14–5
	Massachusetts	Atlantic 10	Automatic	19	18–1
	Northwestern	Big Ten	At-large	10	10–9
	Old Dominion	Atlantic Sun	Automatic	35	16–3
	Penn State	Big Ten	At-large	15	11–6
	Princeton	Ivy	At-large	9	11–5
	Stanford	MPSF	At-large	13	14–4
	Stony Brook	America East	Automatic	11	16–3
	Towson	CAA	Automatic	5	15–3
	Virginia	ACC	At-large	17	9–8
	Wagner	NEC	Automatic	58	10–8
	Winthrop	Big South	Automatic	25	20–2

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

2016 NCAA Division I women's lacrosse tournament