1998 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament

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1998 NCAA Division I men's
lacrosse tournament

Dates

May 9–25, 1998^[1]

Teams

Finals site

Rutgers Stadium

Piscataway, New Jersey

Champions

Princeton (5th title)

Runner-up

Maryland (9th title game)

Semifinalists

Loyola Maryland (2nd Final Four)
Syracuse (16th Final Four)

Winning coach

Bill Tierney (5th title)

MOP

Corey Popham, Princeton

Attendance^[2]

17,225 finals
64,850 total

Top scorer

Andrew Whipple, Maryland
(18 goals)

NCAA Division I men's tournaments
«1997	1999»

The 1998 NCAA Division I lacrosse tournament was the 28th annual tournament hosted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to determine the team champion of men's college lacrosse among its Division I programs, held at the end of the 1998 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse season.^[3]

Princeton defeated Maryland in the final, 15–5.^[2] This was Princeton's third consecutive national championship under Head Coach Bill Tierney, and their fifth title since 1992.

The championship game was played at Rutgers Stadium at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, with 21,194 fans in attendance. ^[4]

Qualifying

Twelve NCAA Division I college men's lacrosse teams met after having played their way through a regular season, and for some, a conference tournament.

Butler, Hobart, and UMBC made their debut appearances in the Division I lacrosse tournament.

Bracket

First Round May 9-10, 1998			Quarterfinals May 16-17, 1998			Semifinals May 23, 1998			Final May 25, 1998

	Georgetown	9

8	UMBC	8
			1	Loyola Maryland	12

				Georgetown	11



						1	Loyola Maryland	8

						5	Maryland	19



			4	Johns Hopkins	10

			5	Maryland	11*
5	Maryland	18

	Butler	10
									5	Maryland	5

									2	Princeton	15
7	Duke	16

	North Carolina	14
			2	Princeton	11

			7	Duke	9



						2	Princeton	11

						3	Syracuse	10



			3	Syracuse	17

			6	Virginia	14
6	Virginia	16

	Hobart	10

* = Overtime

All-Tournament Team

Corey Popham, Princeton (Named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player)
Christian Cook, Princeton
Jesse Hubbard, Princeton
Jon Hess, Princeton
Josh Sims, Princeton
Scott Hochstadt, Maryland
Mike Bonnani, Maryland
Brian Haggerty, Maryland
Casey Powell, Syracuse
Ryan Powell, Syracuse
Luke Parrott
Brian Woody

References

^ "NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Tournament brackets" (PDF). NCAA.org. NCAA. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
^ ^a ^b "NCAA Lacrosse Division I Results / Records" (PDF). NCAA. p. 3 (51). Retrieved 24 April 2014.
^ "DIVISION I MEN'S LACROSSE CHAMPIONSHIPS RECORDS BOOK" (PDF). NCAA.org. NCAA. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
^ "Attendance Figures for the NCAA Men's Championships". LaxPower.com. Archived from the original on 10 June 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-25.

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