The 64 Team D1 Lacrosse National Campionship Tournament.

The 64 Team D1 Lacrosse National Championship Tournament

by, Billy Mumphrey



 

The way I divided up the  regions is what is going to make people the craziest not the outcome of the games. To have a "West" or "South" Region you have to put teams in those brackets that might not be considered South or West by a lot of people, but in these circumstance we have to shift the teams based on location. Here is the map how I divided the teams.

 

 

 

It's hard to break up the teams on a map and with 71 different teams we must find a way to appropriately "Region" each team. It was not easy.

 

Based on RPI Rankings (4-18)

 

REGION:	West Region	South Region	North Region	East Region
1	Notre Dame	Maryland	Syracuse	Hofstra
2	Ohio State	John’s Hopkins	Albany	Rutgers
3	Penn. State	North Carolina	Army	Villanova
4	Denver	Towson	Boston U.	Princeton
5	Michigan	Duke	Yale	Stony Brook
6	Marquette	UMBC	Providence	Penn.
7	Binghamton	Virginia	UMass	Delaware
8	Air Force	Richmond	Brown	Drexel
9	Cornell	Loyola	Sacred Heart	Navy
10	Robert Morris	Furman	Marist	Monmouth
11	Hobart	Georgetown	Harvard	Lehigh
12	Bucknell	Mount St. Joe’s	Bryant	St. Joseph’s
13	Cleveland State	High Point	Vermont	St. John’s
14	Canisius	Mercer	Fairfield	Lafayette
15	Detroit Mercy	Jacksonville	Colgate	(@ Lrg Tour)*
16	Bellarmine	VMI	Holy Cross	(@ Lrg Tour)*
EXTRA:		Hampton	Hartford*	Wagner
			UMass Lowell	Quinnipiac
			Dartmouth *	NJIT
			Siena	Manhattan

After "Region-ing" each of the 71 Division 1 Lacrosse Programs, then we bracketed each team in it's appropriate bracket except that we had 7 Teams over 64. With an auto bid going to VMI (bc all Military Colleges get an auto Bid), we had nine teams bidding for two final spots in the "East Region." Here is that two team tournament:

 

 

With Dartmouth and Hartford moving on, we were able to fill out our 64 Team May Madness Lacrosse Style Bracket. I understand that the Regions may not be what you think they are and I understand that in a 64 Team Tournament anything is possible, but I think at least the Sweet 16 is pretty close to accurate. We will see at the end of the season how close we came, but until then, here is the fun of the bracket! I believe we should have a 64 Team Lacrosse Tournament for the National Title. If we could move from 16 to 32 that'd be a move in the right direction.