2004 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament
The 2004 NCAA Division I lacrosse tournament was the 34th 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 2004 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse season.[2]
| 2004 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Penn and Navy played in the first round | |||||
| Dates | May 15–31, 2004 | ||||
| Teams | 16 | ||||
| Finals site | M&T Bank Stadium Baltimore, Maryland | ||||
| Champions | Syracuse (8th title) | ||||
| Runner-up | Navy (2nd title game) | ||||
| Semifinalists | Johns Hopkins (24th Final Four) Princeton (10th Final Four) | ||||
| Winning coach | John Desko (3rd title) | ||||
| MOP | Michael Powell, Syracuse | ||||
| Attendance[1] | 46,923 semi-finals 43,898 finals 90,821 total | ||||
| Top scorer | Michael Powell, Syracuse (19 goals) | ||||
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Syracuse won the championship with a 14–13 win over Navy. The Orange, led by senior Michael Powell, scored the game winner with one minute left in the fourth quarter, claiming their eighth national title.[3] Powell finished the game with one goal and five assists. Syracuse outscored Navy 3–1 in the final five minutes to overcome a 12-11 fourth-quarter deficit. Navy got the ball back with 15 seconds left, but could not get a shot off.
With Syracuse's 2004 national championship win Michael Powell joins his brothers Casey and Ryan as the first set of brothers to win a national championship with the same school.
The championship game was played at M&T Bank Stadium, the home of the NFL's Baltimore Ravens, in Baltimore, Maryland in front of 43,898 fans.[4]
Qualifying
editSixteen NCAA Division I college men's lacrosse teams met after having played their way through a regular season, and for some, a conference tournament.
Providence made their debut appearance in the Division I men's lacrosse tournament.
Bracket
edit| First Round May 15–16, 2004 | Quarterfinals May 22–23, 2004 | Semifinals May 29, 2004 | Final May 31, 2004 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Johns Hopkins | 15 | |||||||||||||||||
| Providence | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Johns Hopkins | 15 | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | North Carolina | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Ohio State | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | North Carolina | 13 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Johns Hopkins | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Syracuse | 15 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Georgetown | 15 | |||||||||||||||||
| Towson | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Georgetown | 7 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Syracuse | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
| Albany | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Syracuse | 21 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Syracuse | 14 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Navy | 13 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Maryland | 16 | |||||||||||||||||
| Army | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Maryland | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Princeton | 9* | |||||||||||||||||
| Rutgers | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Princeton | 12 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Princeton | 7 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Navy | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Cornell | 11 | |||||||||||||||||
| Hobart | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Cornell | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Navy | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Penn | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Navy | 11 | |||||||||||||||||
- * = Overtime
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "LaxPower Mobile". Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-07-13.
- ^ "DIVISION I MEN'S LACROSSE CHAMPIONSHIPS RECORDS BOOK" (PDF). NCAA.org. NCAA. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
- ^ "NCAA Lacrosse Division I Results / Records" (PDF). NCAA. p. 3 (51). Retrieved 24 April 2014.
- ^ "Attendance Figures for the NCAA Men's Championships". LaxPower.com. Archived from the original on 10 June 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-25.
External links
edit- Navy Falls to Syracuse in NCAA Championship Game Archived 2008-04-01 at the Wayback Machine
- YouTube 2004 NCAA Men's Lacrosse National Championship
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