NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament

NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament
Sport	Field lacrosse
Founded	1971
No. of teams	17
Country	United States
Most recent; champion(s)	Notre Dame (2nd Title)
Most titles	Syracuse (10 Titles)
TV partner(s)	ESPN; CBS Sports Network
Official website	NCAA.com
	2024 Championship

The NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship tournament determines the annual top men's college lacrosse team in the NCAA Division I. This tournament has determined the national champion since the inaugural 1971 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship. From 1936 through 1970, the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) awarded the Wingate Memorial Trophy annually to the collegiate champion based on regular season records.

History

NCAA Championship 2009. Syracuse vs. Cornell pregame in Gillette Stadium. Syracuse would win 10-9 in OT.

The first Division I Championship tournament held in 1971 replaced the USILA and Wingate Memorial Trophy national title awards. As of 2023, 52 NCAA tournaments have been held (not held in 2020). In that span twelve teams — Johns Hopkins, Syracuse, Princeton, North Carolina, Virginia, Cornell, Duke, Maryland, Loyola University (Maryland), Denver, Yale and Notre Dame — have won the national title, with Syracuse leading with ten titles (plus one vacated by the NCAA^[a]). In all, 41 teams have participated in the NCAA tournament since its inception. Only seven unseeded teams — the 1988 Cornell Big Red, the 1991 Towson Tigers, the 2006 Massachusetts Minutemen, the 2010 Notre Dame Fighting Irish, the 2011 and 2012 Maryland Terrapins and the 2016 North Carolina Tar Heels — have made it to the championship game, and only ten unseeded teams have made it to the tournament semi-finals, the most recent being North Carolina in 2016. Johns Hopkins has appeared in every tournament but three (1971, 2013, 2021). The Number One seed in the tournament has won the title 17 times and there have been 13 undefeated National Champions. North Carolina in 2016 was the first unseeded team to win the national title.

Originally consisting of eight teams, the size of the tournament field has changed over the years, increasing to 10 in 1986, 12 in 1987, 16 in 2003, 18 in 2014, down to 17 in 2017, down again to 16 in 2021, back up to 18 in 2022, and finally down to 17 in 2023. The two semifinal games and the final have been played on the same weekend at the same stadium since 1986. All three matches have always been scheduled for Memorial Day weekend, with the semifinals doubleheader on Saturday afternoon and the final held on the holiday itself.

The sport has historically been focused in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states, with the sport's U.S. heartland today extending from New England to North Carolina. Only eight schools from outside the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic have played in the NCAA tournament—Air Force, Butler, Denver, Marquette, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Michigan and Utah. No team west of the Eastern Time Zone won an NCAA championship until Denver in 2015.

20 coaches have won Division I titles: Richie Moran, Glenn Thiel, Bud Beardmore, Bob Scott, Henry Ciccarone, Willie Scroggs, Jr., Roy Simmons, Jr., Dave Klarmann, Don Zimmerman, Bill Tierney, Dom Starsia, John Desko, Dave Pietramala, John Danowski, Charley Toomey, John Tillman, Joe Breschi, Andy Shay, Lars Tiffany, and Kevin Corrigan. Tierney is the only one to have won at two different schools (Princeton and Denver).

Results

NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament
Year	Host City (University)	Host Stadium	Final
Year	Host City (University)	Host Stadium	Winner (Record) (Seed)	Score	Runner-up (Record) (Seed)
1971 Details	Hempstead, New York (Hofstra)	Hofstra Stadium	Cornell (13–1) (#1)	12–6	Maryland (9–4) (#3)
1972 Details	College Park, Maryland (Maryland)	Byrd Stadium	Virginia (11–4) (n/a)	13–12	Johns Hopkins (11–2) (n/a)
1973 Details	Philadelphia (Penn)	Franklin Field	Maryland (10–0) (#1)	10–9 (OT)	Johns Hopkins (11–2) (#2)
1974 Details	Piscataway, New Jersey (Rutgers)	Rutgers Stadium I	Johns Hopkins (12–2) (#2)	17–12	Maryland (8–2) (#1)
1975 Details	Baltimore (Johns Hopkins)	Homewood Field	Maryland (8–2) (#3)	20–13	Navy (10–5) (#4)
1976 Details	Providence, Rhode Island (Brown)	Brown Stadium	Cornell (16–0) (#2)	16–13 (OT)	Maryland (10–1) (#1)
1977 Details	Charlottesville, Virginia (Virginia)	Scott Stadium	Cornell (13–0) (#1)	16–8	Johns Hopkins (11–2) (#2)
1978 Details	Piscataway, New Jersey (Rutgers)	Rutgers Stadium I	Johns Hopkins (13–1) (#2)	13–8	Cornell (13–1) (#1)
1979 Details	College Park, Maryland (Maryland)	Byrd Stadium	Johns Hopkins (13–0) (#1)	15–9	Maryland (9–2) (#2)
1980 Details	Ithaca, New York (Cornell)	Schoellkopf Field	Johns Hopkins (14–1) (#2)	9–8 (2OT)	Virginia (12–2) (#1)
1981 Details	Princeton, New Jersey (Princeton)	Palmer Stadium	North Carolina (12–0) (#2)	14–13	Johns Hopkins (13–1) (#1)
1982 Details	Charlottesville, Virginia (Virginia)	Scott Stadium	North Carolina (14–0) (#1)	7–5	Johns Hopkins (11–3) (#2)
1983 Details	Piscataway, New Jersey (Rutgers)	Rutgers Stadium I	Syracuse (14–1) (#2)	17–16	Johns Hopkins (12–2) (#1)
1984 Details	Newark, Delaware (Delaware)	Delaware Stadium	Johns Hopkins (14–0) (#1)	13–10	Syracuse (15–1) (#2)
1985 Details	Providence, Rhode Island (Brown)	Brown Stadium	Johns Hopkins (13–1) (#1)	11–4	Syracuse (14–2) (#2)
1986 Details	Newark, Delaware (Delaware)	Delaware Stadium	North Carolina (11–3) (#5)	10–9 (OT)	Virginia (12–3) (#3)
1987 Details	Piscataway, New Jersey (Rutgers)	Rutgers Stadium I	Johns Hopkins (10–3) (#4)	11–10	Cornell (13–1) (#2)
1988 Details	Syracuse, New York (Syracuse)	Carrier Dome	Syracuse (15–0) (#1)	13–8	Cornell (9–6) (unseeded)
1989 Details	College Park, Maryland (Maryland)	Byrd Stadium	Syracuse (14–1) (#1)	13–12	Johns Hopkins (11–2) (#2)
1990 Details	Piscataway, New Jersey (Rutgers)	Rutgers Stadium I	Syracuse (Vacated) (13–0) (#1) ^[a]	21–9	Loyola (11–3) (#3)
1991 Details	Syracuse, New York (Syracuse)	Carrier Dome	North Carolina (16–0) (#1)	18–13	Towson (12–4) (unseeded)
1992 Details	Philadelphia (Penn)	Franklin Field	Princeton (13–2) (#3)	10–9 (OT)	Syracuse (13–2) (#1)
1993 Details	College Park, Maryland (Maryland)	Byrd Stadium	Syracuse (12–2) (#3)	13–12	North Carolina (14–2) (#1)
1994 Details	College Park, Maryland (Maryland)	Byrd Stadium	Princeton (14–1) (#3)	9–8 (OT)	Virginia (13–4) (#5)
1995 Details	College Park, Maryland (Maryland)	Byrd Stadium	Syracuse (13–2) (#3)	13–9	Maryland (12–4) (#4)
1996 Details	College Park, Maryland (Maryland)	Byrd Stadium	Princeton (14–1) (#1)	13–12 (OT)	Virginia (12–4) (#3)
1997 Details	College Park, Maryland (Maryland)	Byrd Stadium	Princeton (15–0) (#1)	19–7	Maryland (11–5) (#7)
1998 Details	Piscataway, New Jersey (Rutgers)	Rutgers Stadium II	Princeton (14–1) (#2)	15–5	Maryland (14–3) (#5)
1999 Details	College Park, Maryland (Maryland)	Byrd Stadium	Virginia (13–3) (#3)	12–10	Syracuse (12–5) (#8)
2000 Details	College Park, Maryland (Maryland)	Byrd Stadium	Syracuse (15–1) (#1)	13–7	Princeton (12–3) (#3)
2001 Details	Piscataway, New Jersey (Rutgers)	Rutgers Stadium II	Princeton (14–1) (#2)	10–9 (OT)	Syracuse (13–3) (#1)
2002 Details	Piscataway, New Jersey (Rutgers)	Rutgers Stadium II	Syracuse (15–2) (#2)	13–12	Princeton (10–5) (#4)
2003 Details	Baltimore	M&T Bank Stadium	Virginia (15–2) (#2)	9–7	Johns Hopkins (14–2) (#1)
2004 Details	Baltimore	M&T Bank Stadium	Syracuse (15–2) (#4)	14–13	Navy (15–3) (#2)
2005 Details	Philadelphia (Penn)	Lincoln Financial Field	Johns Hopkins (16–0) (#1)	9–8	Duke (17–3) (#2)
2006 Details	Philadelphia (Penn)	Lincoln Financial Field	Virginia (17–0) (#1)	15–7	Massachusetts (13–5) (unseeded)
2007 Details	Baltimore	M&T Bank Stadium	Johns Hopkins (13–4) (#3)	12–11	Duke (17–3) (#1)
2008 Details	Foxborough, Massachusetts	Gillette Stadium	Syracuse (16–2) (#3)	13–10	Johns Hopkins (11–6) (#5)
2009 Details	Foxborough, Massachusetts	Gillette Stadium	Syracuse (15–2) (#2)	10–9 (OT)	Cornell (13–4) (#5)
2010 Details	Baltimore	M&T Bank Stadium	Duke (16–4) (#5)	6–5 (OT)	Notre Dame (12–6) (unseeded)
2011 Details	Baltimore	M&T Bank Stadium	Virginia (13–5) (#7)	9–7	Maryland (13–5) (unseeded)
2012 Details	Foxborough, Massachusetts	Gillette Stadium	Loyola (18–1) (#1)	9–3	Maryland (12–6) (unseeded)
2013 Details	Philadelphia (Drexel)	Lincoln Financial Field	Duke (16–5) (#7)	16–10	Syracuse (16–4) (#1)
2014 Details	Baltimore	M&T Bank Stadium	Duke (17–3) (#1)	11–9	Notre Dame (12–6) (#6)
2015 Details	Philadelphia (Drexel)	Lincoln Financial Field	Denver (17–2) (#4)	10–5	Maryland (15–4) (#6)
2016 Details	Philadelphia (Drexel)	Lincoln Financial Field	North Carolina (12–6) (unseeded)	14–13 (OT)	Maryland (17–3) (#1)
2017 Details	Foxborough, Massachusetts	Gillette Stadium	Maryland (16–3) (#1)	9–6	Ohio State (16–5) (#3)
2018 Details	Foxborough, Massachusetts	Gillette Stadium	Yale (17–3) (#3)	13–11	Duke (16–4) (#4)
2019 Details	Philadelphia (Drexel)	Lincoln Financial Field	Virginia (17–3) (#3)	13–9	Yale (15–4) (#5)
2020 Details	Philadelphia (Drexel)	Lincoln Financial Field	Cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic
2021 Details	East Hartford, Connecticut (Fairfield)	Rentschler Field	Virginia (14–4) (#4)	17–16	Maryland (15–1) (#3)
2022 Details	East Hartford, Connecticut (Fairfield)	Rentschler Field	Maryland (18–0) (#1)	9–7	Cornell (14–5) (#7)
2023 Details	Philadelphia (Drexel)	Lincoln Financial Field	Notre Dame (13–2) (#3)	13–9	Duke (16–2) (#1)
2024 Details	Philadelphia (Drexel)	Lincoln Financial Field	Notre Dame (15–1) (#1)	15–5	Maryland (11–5) (#7)
2025 Details	Foxborough, Massachusetts	Gillette Stadium
2026 Details	TBD	TBD
2027 Details	Philadelphia (Drexel)	Lincoln Financial Field
2028 Details	Foxborough, Massachusetts	Gillette Stadium

NCAA team titles

Below is a list of championships awarded by the NCAA. A vacated title is not included in the total.

Syracuse

Virginia

Princeton

North Carolina

Maryland

Cornell

Duke

Denver

Yale

Notre Dame

Baltimore schools

Johns Hopkins

Loyola

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National Championships by school

– 10 championships,

– 9 championships,

– 7 championships,

– 6 championships,

– 5 championships,

– 4 championships,

– 3 championships,

– 2 championships,

– 1 championship

Team	Titles	Finals lost	Years won
Syracuse	10	6	1983, 1988, 1989, 1990^[a], 1993, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2009
Johns Hopkins	9	9	1974, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1987, 2005, 2007
Virginia	7	4	1972, 1999, 2003, 2006, 2011, 2019, 2021
Princeton	6	2	1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001
North Carolina	5	1	1981, 1982, 1986, 1991, 2016
Maryland	4	13	1973, 1975, 2017, 2022
Cornell	3	5	1971, 1976, 1977
Duke	3	4	2010, 2013, 2014
Notre Dame	2	2	2023, 2024
Loyola	1	1	2012
Denver	1	0	2015
Yale	1	1	2018
Navy	0	2
Towson	0	1
Massachusetts	0	1
Ohio State	0	1

Results by School and Year

Key

CH National Champion
RU National Runner-up
SF Semifinals
QF Quarterfinals
10 12 16 First Round (10 teams in 1986, 12 teams starting in 1987, 16 teams starting in 2003)
• Play-In Round (1 or 2 teams per year, starting in 2014.)
CH Syracuse national championship vacated in 1990.

Each tournament has seeded the top 8 seeds. The top seed is shown with double underline, the teams seeded between No. 2 and No. 4 are shown with single underline, and the teams seeded between No. 5 and No. 8 are shown with dotted underline.

School	Conference	#	QF	SF	CG	CH	71	72	73	74	75	76	77	78	79	80	81	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
School	Conference
Syracuse	ACC	40	33	26	16	10									QF	SF	QF		CH	RU	RU	SF	SF	CH	CH	CH	SF	RU	CH	SF	CH	SF	SF	SF	RU	CH	RU	CH	SF	CH	16	SF		CH	CH	16	QF	16	RU	16	QF	QF	QF	16	16	16			QF
Johns Hopkins	Big Ten	49	44	29	18	9		RU	RU	CH	QF	SF	RU	CH	CH	CH	RU	RU	RU	CH	CH	SF	CH	QF	RU	12	QF	SF	SF	QF	SF	SF	QF	QF	SF	SF	QF	SF	RU	SF	CH	QF	CH	RU	QF	16	QF	QF		QF	SF	16	16	QF	16			QF	QF
Virginia	ACC	43	36	26	11	7	QF	CH	SF	QF				QF	SF	RU	SF	SF	QF	QF	SF	RU		SF		12	12		QF	RU	SF	RU	QF	QF	CH	SF	12	SF	CH		SF	CH	16	SF	SF	SF	CH	QF		16	16			16	CH	CH	QF	SF	SF
Princeton	Ivy League	23	17	11	8	6																				QF	QF	CH	SF	CH	QF	CH	CH	CH	12	RU	CH	RU	QF	SF		QF	16		QF	16		16									SF	16	16
North Carolina	ACC	33	26	14	6	5						QF	QF			SF	CH	CH	SF	SF	SF	CH	QF	QF	SF	SF	CH	SF	RU	QF	12	QF		12						QF			QF	16	QF	QF	16	16	QF	16	QF	CH	16			SF
Maryland	Big Ten	46	41	29	17	4	RU	SF	CH	RU	CH	RU	SF	SF	RU		QF	QF	SF			QF	SF		SF		SF	QF	12	12	RU	QF	RU	RU		QF	QF		SF	QF	SF	SF	16	QF	QF	QF	RU	RU	16	SF	RU	RU	CH	SF	QF	RU	CH	16	RU
Cornell	Ivy League	30	22	14	8	3	CH			SF	SF	CH	CH	RU	QF	QF		SF	QF				RU	RU	12						12					12		QF		QF	QF	16	SF	16	RU	SF	QF		SF	16	16			QF			RU	16
Duke	ACC	26	21	14	7	3																						12		QF	12		SF	QF	QF	QF	12	QF			RU		RU	SF	SF	CH	SF	SF	CH	CH	16	16	QF	RU	SF	SF		RU	QF
Notre Dame	ACC	27	16	7	4	2																				12		12	12	12	QF	12	12		12	QF	SF					16	16	QF	16	RU	QF	SF	QF	RU	SF	QF	QF	16	QF	QF		CH	CH
Loyola (MD)	Patriot	25	16	4	2	1																		QF	QF	RU	QF	12	QF	QF	QF	12	QF	SF	QF	12	QF						16	16		16		CH	16	16		SF	16	QF	QF	QF
Yale	Ivy League	12	6	3	2	1																		12		SF		QF																				16	QF		16	16	16	CH	RU		QF	16
Denver	Big East	13	8	6	1	1																																				16		16		16	SF	QF	SF	SF	CH	16	SF	QF		16			SF
Navy	Patriot	27	20	8	2	-	SF	QF	QF	QF	RU	SF	SF	SF	SF	QF	SF	QF				QF	QF	QF	QF			12	12	12					12					RU	QF	16	16	QF	16							QF
Towson	CAA	16	7	3	1	-																			12		RU	QF		12		QF					SF		QF	16	16		16						16		16	QF	SF		16				16
UMass	Atlantic 10	20	11	1	1	-						QF	QF		QF		QF					QF	12	12	QF	12	12		12		12		QF					QF	QF		QF	RU			16			16						16
Ohio State	Big Ten	7	4	1	1	-																																	16	16				QF					QF		QF		RU				16
Washington and Lee	D3	8	8	3	-	-		QF	SF	SF	SF	QF	QF	QF		QF
Army	Patriot	18	12	2	-	-	SF	QF	QF					QF			QF	QF	QF	SF	QF		12						QF			12							16	16	16					QF									16			QF
Brown	Ivy League	15	10	2	-	-	QF		QF			QF									QF		12			QF	QF	QF		SF	QF		12												16						16	SF					16
Penn State	Big Ten	7	2	2	-	-																																	16		16								16				16		SF			SF	16
Georgetown	Big East	17	12	1	-	-																											12	QF	SF	QF	12	QF	QF	QF	QF	QF	QF											16	16	QF	16	QF	QF
Penn	Ivy League	14	9	1	-	-					QF		QF						QF	QF	QF		QF	SF	12															16		16					16			16					QF		QF
Rutgers	Big Ten	11	8	1	-	-		QF		QF	QF									QF		QF				QF	12												16	16																QF	SF
Albany	America East	11	5	1	-	-																																	16	16	16		QF						16	QF	QF	16	QF	SF					16
Delaware	CAA	8	4	1	-	-														QF															QF						16		SF			16	16										QF	16
Cortland	D3	1	1	1	-	-		SF
Hofstra	CAA	17	9	-	-	-	QF		QF	QF	QF			QF															QF			12	12		QF	12	QF		16			QF		16	16	16	16
Adelphi	D2	4	4	-	-	-												QF			QF		QF		QF
Harvard	Ivy League	7	3	-	-	-										QF								12		QF						QF										16								16							16
UMBC	America East	7	1	-	-	-																												12	12							16	QF	16	16										16
Bryant	America East	6	1	-	-	-																																											16	QF	•		16			16		16
Air Force	ASUN	5	1	-	-	-	QF																	12																										16		16	16
Stony Brook	CAA	3	1	-	-	-																																12								QF		16
Colgate	Patriot	3	1	-	-	-																																						16				QF			16
Drexel	CAA	2	1	-	-	-																																												QF						16
Michigan	Big Ten	2	1	-	-	-																																																				QF	16
NC State	defunct	1	1	-	-	-									QF
Hobart	Atlantic 10	5	-	-	-	-																												12		12		12		16												•
Richmond	Atlantic 10	5	-	-	-	-																																												•				16	16		16	16
Marist	MAAC	4	-	-	-	-																																			16										16				•			•
Lehigh	Patriot	4	-	-	-	-																																										16	16							16			16
Michigan State	Big Ten	3	-	-	-	-																	12		12		12
Providence	Big East	3	-	-	-	-																																		16		16	16
Canisius	MAAC	3	-	-	-	-																																						16				16						•
Siena	MAAC	3	-	-	-	-																																							16		16			•
Villanova	Big East	3	-	-	-	-																																							16		16							16
Robert Morris	ASUN	3	-	-	-	-																																																16	16		•
Bucknell	Patriot	2	-	-	-	-																															12										16
Fairfield	CAA	2	-	-	-	-																																12			16
Manhattan	MAAC	2	-	-	-	-																																12																			•
Mount St. Mary's	MAAC	2	-	-	-	-																																	16							16
Hartford	D3	2	-	-	-	-																																									16					•
High Point	Atlantic 10	2	-	-	-	-																																													•					16
Marquette	Big East	2	-	-	-	-																																														16	16
Monmouth	CAA	2	-	-	-	-																																															•			16
Vermont	America East	2	-	-	-	-																																																		16	16
Saint Joseph's	Atlantic 10	2	-	-	-	-																																																			16		16
Utah	ASUN	2	-	-	-	-																																																				16	16
Long Island	MAAC	1	-	-	-	-																10
New Hampshire	defunct	1	-	-	-	-																10
Butler	defunct	1	-	-	-	-																												12
Dartmouth	Ivy League	1	-	-	-	-																																	16
Detroit Mercy	ASUN	1	-	-	-	-																																											16
Quinnipiac	MAAC	1	-	-	-	-																																														16
Boston University	Patriot	1	-	-	-	-																																																			16
Sacred Heart	MAAC	1	-	-	-	-																																																					•

Finals appearances by state

State	Titles	University	Runners-up	University
Maryland	14	Johns Hopkins (9), Maryland (4), Loyola (1)	26	Maryland (13), Johns Hopkins (9), Navy (2), Loyola (1), Towson (1)
New York	13	Syracuse (10), Cornell (3)	11	Syracuse (6), Cornell (5)
North Carolina	8	North Carolina (5), Duke (3)	5	Duke (4), North Carolina (1)
Virginia	7	Virginia (7)	4	Virginia (4)
New Jersey	6	Princeton (6)	2	Princeton (2)
Indiana	2	Notre Dame (2)	2	Notre Dame (2)
Connecticut	1	Yale (1)	1	Yale (1)
Colorado	1	Denver (1)	0
Massachusetts	0		1	Massachusetts (1)
Ohio	0		1	Ohio State (1)

Championships 1881–present

Below is a list of team championship titles, inclusive of those awarded prior to the formation of the NCAA Division I Championship. These include the ILA champions (1881–1898), the USIULL and ILA champions (1899–1905), the USILL champions (1906–1925), the USILA champions (1926–1935), and the Wingate Memorial Trophy (1936–1972) recipients. Of note several schools have claimed their Northern and Southern Division titles won during the USILL years as national championships (based on the results of 3 or 4 intra-division games), while others have not. Still others were acclaimed in their time as unofficial title winners based on being leading teams in the collegiate ranks in particular years. Furthermore, the USILL (1906–1925) was a closed membership organization. Some strong teams of the era, such as Army and Navy, were never members, so that in some years, the USILL champion was not necessarily the best team in the United States.

Team	Titles	Years won/claimed^#
Johns Hopkins	44	1891, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1902, 1903, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1913, 1915, 1918, 1919, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1932§, 1933§, 1934§, 1941, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1957, 1959, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1987, 2005, 2007
Navy	17	1928, 1929, 1938, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1949, 1954, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1970
Princeton	15	1883, 1884, 1888, 1889, 1935§, 1937, 1942, 1951, 1953, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001
Syracuse	15	1920, 1922, 1924, 1925, 1983, 1988, 1989, 1990^[a], 1993, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2009
Harvard	13	1881†, 1882, 1883, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912‡, 1913, 1915
Maryland	13	1928, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1967, 1973, 1975, 2017, 2022
Lehigh	10	1890, 1893, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1914, 1916, 1917, 1920, 1921‡
Virginia	9	1952, 1970, 1972, 1999, 2003, 2006, 2011, 2019, 2021
Army	8	1923, 1944, 1945, 1951, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1969
Cornell	8	1902, 1903, 1907, 1914, 1916, 1971, 1976, 1977
North Carolina	5	1981, 1982, 1986, 1991, 2016
Swarthmore	4	1901, 1904, 1905, 1910
Stevens Tech	4	1892, 1894, 1917, 1918
Duke	3	2010, 2013, 2014
St John's (MD)	2	1930, 1931
Yale	2	1883, 2018
Notre Dame	2	2023, 2024
Rutgers	1	1928
Union College	1	1929
RPI	1	1952
Loyola	1	2012
Denver	1	2015
#Championship or co-championship claims, as published in school media guide, record book or yearbook
§The USILA did not name champions for the 1932–1935 seasons. School claims national championship based on being that year's leading team.
†Won a tournament conducted for the first collegiate national championship by the U.S. National Lacrosse Association.
‡Won a post-season championship game between the winners of the USILL Northern and Southern Divisions.

Championships by state

State	Titles	University
Maryland	77	Johns Hopkins (44), Navy (17), Maryland (13), St. John's MD (2), Loyola (1)
New York	33	Syracuse (15^[a]), Army (8), Cornell (8), Union College (1), RPI (1)
New Jersey	20	Princeton (15), Stevens Tech (4), Rutgers (1)
Pennsylvania	14	Lehigh (10), Swarthmore (4)
Massachusetts	13	Harvard (13)
Virginia	9	Virginia (9)
North Carolina	8	North Carolina (5), Duke (3)
Connecticut	2	Yale (2)
Indiana	2	Notre Dame (2)
Colorado	1	Denver (1)

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Syracuse's championship in the 1990 tournament was vacated by the NCAA. The NCAA Committee on Infractions determined that Paul Gait had played in the 1990 championship while ineligible. Under NCAA rules, Syracuse and Paul Gait's records for that championship were vacated. The NCAA does not recognize Syracuse and coach Roy Simmons, Jr.'s record in the 1990 tournament.^[1]

References

^ "Men's Lacrosse Championship History". National Collegiate Athletic Association. Retrieved 2015-11-22.

External links

NCAA page for men's lacrosse

[fn1-2] Syracuse's championship in the 1990 tournament was vacated by the NCAA. The NCAA Committee on Infractions determined that Paul Gait had played in the 1990 championship while ineligible. Under NCAA rules, Syracuse and Paul Gait's records for that championship were vacated. The NCAA does not recognize Syracuse and coach Roy Simmons, Jr.'s record in the 1990 tournament.^[1]

[1] "Men's Lacrosse Championship History". National Collegiate Athletic Association. Retrieved 2015-11-22.

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