2024 Men's Div I Bracket

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2024 NCAA Men’s College Lacrosse Championship:

Date	Time (ET)	Matchup	Platform
Wed, May 8	7 p.m.	Sacred Heart at Albany Opening Round	ESPN+
Sat, May 11	Noon	Saint Joseph’s at No. 6 Virginia First Round Anish Shroff, Quint Kessenich	ESPNU/ESPN+
	2:30 p.m.	Utah at No. 2 Duke First Round Kevin Fitzgerald, Mark Dixon	ESPNU/ESPN+
	5 p.m.	Michigan at No. 5 Denver First Round Jay Alter, Jules Heningburg	ESPNU/ESPN+
	7:30 p.m.	Princeton at No. 7 Maryland First Round Chris Cotter, Paul Carcaterra	ESPNU/ESPN+
Sun, May 12	Noon	Lehigh at No. 3 Johns Hopkins First Round Anish Shroff, Quint Kessenich	ESPNU/ESPN+
	2:30 p.m.	Penn State at No. 8 Georgetown First Round Chris Cotter, Paul Carcaterra	ESPNU/ESPN+
	5 p.m.	Albany at No. 1 Notre Dame First Round Joe Beninati, Matt Ward	ESPNU/ESPN+
	7:30 p.m.	Towson at No. 4 Syracuse First Round Drew Carter, Ryan Boyle	ESPNU/ESPN+
Sat, May 18	Noon	No. 8 Georgetown vs No. 1 Notre Dame Quarterfinal #1 Hempstead, NY Chris Cotter, Paul Carcaterra	ESPNU/ESPN+
	2:30 p.m.	No. 7 Maryland vs No. 2 Duke Quarterfinal #2 Hempstead, NY Chris Cotter, Paul Carcaterra	ESPNU/ESPN+
Sun, May 19	Noon	No. 5 Denver vs No. 4 Syracuse Quarterfinal #3 Towson, MD Anish Shroff, Quint Kessenich	ESPNU/ESPN+
	2:30 p.m.	No. 6 Virginia vs No. 3 Johns Hopkins Quarterfinal #4 Towson, MD Anish Shroff, Quint Kessenich	ESPNU/ESPN+
Sat, May 25	Noon	NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championship Semi #1 Philadelphia, PA Anish Shroff, Quint Kessenich, Paul Carcaterra	ESPN2/ESPN+
	2:30 p.m.	NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championship Semi #2 Philadelphia, PA Anish Shroff, Quint Kessenich, Paul Carcaterra	ESPN2/ESPN+
Mon, May 27	1 p.m.	NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championship Final Philadelphia, PA Anish Shroff, Quint Kessenich, Paul Carcaterra	ESPN/ESPN+

ESPN to Present Every Game of the 2024 NCAA Division I Men’s Lacrosse Championship, Beginning Wednesday, May 8 and Concluding Monday, May 27

ESPN’s exclusive, wire-to-wire coverage of the 2024 NCAA Division I Men’s Lacrosse Championship begins with the opening round game Wednesday, May 8 and continues with eight first round games on Saturday and Sunday, totaling more than 20 hours of programming on ESPNU throughout the weekend.

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https://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/men-s-di-bracket-notre-dame-is-clear-top-seed-only-one-ivy-league-team/63309

Penn State Edges Penn for Last Spot in NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Tournament

The NCAA Division I men's lacrosse selections were announced Sunday night. ACC champion Notre Dame got the No. 1 overall seed and Big Ten runner-up Penn State got the final at-large bid.

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[Zack80]

Seems a little strange to me that they send, Syracuse-Denver sub bracket to Towson.

They have seeded teams Maryland and Georgetown in the other 2 sub brackets.

Furthermore, they are sending #1 and #2 to Hofstra.

 

[FloridaCuse]

Seems a little strange to me that they send, Syracuse-Denver sub bracket to Towson.

They have seeded teams Maryland and Georgetown in the other 2 sub brackets.

Furthermore, they are sending #1 and #2 to Hofstra.

Sending Syracuse-Denver to Towson because Syracuse plays Towson. They set it up so if Towson wins first round they play at home in the 2nd round.

 

[Zack80]

Sending Syracuse-Denver to Towson because Syracuse plays Towson. They set it up so if Towson wins first round they play at home in the 2nd round.

Maybe they could have lined Towson up with Hopkins.

 

[FloridaCuse]

Maybe they could have lined Towson up with Hopkins.

Totally agree and what I expected (and hoped for). But once they decided Hopkins for #3 and us for #4 they lined them up per RPI: Towson 16 & Lehigh 21. Although we were 3-2 vs. Top 5 and Hopkins was 1-1 and we had head-to-head, we were 3-5 vs. Top 20 and Hopkins was 6-3. But at least we didn't get St. Joe's.

 

[Zack80]

I thought the reason Towson and Lehigh weren't seeded was so the committee could tweak things. It seems rather stupid to me.

 

[longtimefan]

I thought the reason Towson and Lehigh weren't seeded was so the committee could tweak things. It seems rather stupid to me.

Stupid? NCAA selection committee? Surely you jest.

 

[FloridaCuse]

I thought the reason Towson and Lehigh weren't seeded was so the committee could tweak things. It seems rather stupid to me.

Powellfan suggested in the Bracketology Thread that they didn't want to match up Hopkins and Towson. He didn't say way. I assume because they played early in the season. But so did Maryland and Princeton. So who knows. Maybe they thought it would have been unfair to Hopkins to play them at home because so many Towson fans would attend. ??

 

[FloridaCuse]

Stupid? NCAA selection committee? Surely you jest.

At least they were willing to give us our Sunday 7:30pm timeslot and not force us to play somewhere else like the Soccer Stadium (like the women) or CNS. But maybe they'd rather have the gate receipts than screw us.

 

[longtimefan]

Powellfan suggested in the Bracketology Thread that they didn't want to match up Hopkins and Towson. He didn't say way. I assume because they played early in the season. But so did Maryland and Princeton. So who knows. Maybe they thought it would have been unfair to Hopkins to play them at home because so many Towson fans would attend. ??

You'd think the NCAA, because of their penny-pinching Olympic sports ways, would have preferred a Hopkins-Towson matchup. Zero travel expenses, and a gate that might exceed 10,000.

 

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[Orangello]

BS screw job. As others have suggested, makes absolutely zero sense from the travel perspective and smells like an agenda.

I'm guessing the line will be something like Cuse -2. Towson is on a roll. Bad draw.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

BS screw job. As others have suggested, makes absolutely zero sense from the travel perspective and smells like an agenda.

I'm guessing the line will be something like Cuse -2. Towson is on a roll. Bad draw.

Opened Syracuse -4. Now at Syracuse -3.5

 

[Orangello]

Watch it dr

Opened Syracuse -4. Now at Syracuse -3.5

Watch it drop

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Watch it dr

Watch it drop

If it drops, it means there's too much $$$ being bet on Towson, and the books want to level the table.

 

[nyclax]

the committee seems to have made a concerted effort to separate all of the big ten and acc teams. if you notice they are all in different quadrants from one another. that is probably the reason for some of the funky pairings...

 

[FloridaCuse]

the committee seems to have made a concerted effort to separate all of the big ten and acc teams. if you notice they are all in different quadrants from one another. that is probably the reason for some of the funky pairings...

Not exactly. They avoided ACC-B1G matches in the 1st round but not the 2nd. I'm surprised they separated all 4 ACC teams in a way that if they all win their first 2 games there will be only all 4 ACC teams in the Final Four. I thought going in they would have wanted to avoid that possibility.

 

[swish7]

Cannot argue with our placement given the 5 losses & getting shelled by Duke.


Hope the team shows up for the playoffs, ready.

 

[FloridaCuse]

Some other interesting betting lines on FanDuel:

ND vs. the Field:

Notre Dame -130
The Field +102

To Make the Final Four from the "Syracuse" Quadrant:

Syracuse -150
Michigan +370
Denver +450
Towson +750

 

[nyclax]

No exactly. They avoided ACC-B1G matches in the 1st round but not the 2nd. I'm surprised they separated all 4 ACC teams in a way that if they all win their first 2 games there will be only all 4 ACC teams in the Final Four. I thought going in they would have wanted to avoid that possibility.

i meant they separated b1g from b1g and acc from acc. those teams wont meet someone from their own conference until the final four, i.e... there is only one each from the acc and b1g in each quadrant..that seems too intentional to be an coincidence

 

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