2002 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament
| 2002 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champions | Syracuse (7th title) | ||||
| Runner-up | Princeton | ||||
| Attendance[1] | 19,706 finals 60,968 total | ||||
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In the 2002 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse National Championship game, Syracuse defeated Princeton by a score of 13-12.[1] The game was a rematch of the 2001 championship game, which was won by Princeton. This time, Syracuse was victorious, led by Michael Powell's four goals and three assists.
Tournament overview
Same teams, different results, Syracuse beat Princeton 13 to 12 in a rematch of the 2001 championship, defeating the Tigers for a record-tying seventh official championship and second in three years.
For Princeton, the defending champion, the loss snapped a 12-game tournament win streak in games decided by one goal. The Tigers only previous tournament loss in such a game was in 1991, prior to the first of Princeton's six national titles.
Michael Powell, who was named the tournament most outstanding player and later would be named national player of the year, scored the game-winner with 11:35 left in the game. Syracuse won three straight one-goal games in the tournament, and the win gave head coach John Desko his second championship in four years
All-Tournament Team: Michael Powell, Solomon Bliss, John Glatzel, Tom Hardy and Jay Pfeifer of Syracuse; Damien Davis, Brad Dumont and B.J. Prager of Princeton; Adam Doneger of Johns Hopkins; and Johnny Christmas of Virginia.
Tournament results
| First Round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Massachusetts | 14 | |||||||||||||||||
| Fairfield | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Massachusetts | 12 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Johns Hopkins | 13* | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Johns Hopkins | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Princeton | 11 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Princeton | 14 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Georgetown | 13 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Georgetown | 12 | |||||||||||||||||
| Manhattan | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Princeton | 12 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Syracuse | 13 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Cornell | 12 | |||||||||||||||||
| Stony Brook | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Cornell | 10 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Virginia | 11 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Virginia | 11 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Syracuse | 12** | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Syracuse | 10 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Duke | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Duke | 22 | |||||||||||||||||
| Hobart | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
- * = Overtime
References
- ^ a b "NCAA Lacrosse Division I Results / Records" (pdf). NCAA. p. 3 (51). Retrieved 24 April 2014.
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