Irish Earn No. 7 Seed In NCAA Tournament, Host Denver In First Round

May 6, 2018

Irish NCAA Tournament Central

NOTRE DAME, Ind. – The University of Notre Dame men’s lacrosse team earned the No. 7 national seed and will host Denver in the first round of the 2018 NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championship on Sunday, May 13.

The game is scheduled for 2:15 p.m. ET at Arlotta Stadium and it will be telecast live on ESPNU.

Notre Dame (9-5) won the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship crown by defeating then-No. 1 Duke 14-11 in the semifinal before downing then-No. 11 Virginia 17-7 in the title game. Denver went 12-3 in the regular season and fell to Georgetown in the Big East title game.

The Irish and Pioneers met earlier this season, with Notre Dame claiming an 11-9 victory at Arlotta Stadium on March 10.

The winner of Notre Dame’s first-round contest against Denver will take on the winner of the first-round tilt between No. 2 seed Albany and Richmond in the quarterfinals May 19 in Hempstead, New York.

Notre Dame In The NCAA Championship

• Notre Dame owns a 19-22 record in 22 previous trips to the NCAA Championship.
• The 2018 season marks Notre Dame’s 13th straight appearance in the NCAA Championship.
• The Irish and Maryland are the only two programs to earn an NCAA berth each of the last 13 seasons.
• Notre Dame is 14-8 over the last eight NCAA Championships, including, including national semifinal apperances in 2012 and 2015 and title game appearances in 2010 and 2014.
• The Irish have advanced to at least the NCAA Championship quarterfinals in each of the last eight seasons, the longest active streak of any program.
• Notre Dame defeated Marquette in the first round of the 2017 NCAA Championship before falling to Denver in the quarterfinals.
• This is the 11th time overall–and 10th time in the last 11 seasons–the Irish have earned one of the eight national seeds for the NCAA Championship.
• The Irish also were seeded for the 2001 (5th), 2008 (6th), 2009 (7th), 2011 (4th), 2012 (4th), 2013 (2nd), 2014 (6th), 2015 (1st), 2016 (3rd) and 2017 (4th) tournaments.
• Notre Dame advanced to the NCAA championship weekend in 2001, 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2015 and played in the title game in 2010 and 2014.

The 17-team NCAA Championship field is comprised of nine automatic-qualifying teams and eight at-large squads. The top eight teams in the bracket are seeded. Four ACC programs made the field and three are seeded (No. 4 Duke, Notre Dame No. 7 and Syracuse No. 8).

Notre Dame faced six of the other NCAA Championship teams this season, posting a 5-3 mark.

The tournament’s semifinals and finals will be held May 26 and 28 at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. For more information on the 2018 NCAA Division I Men’s Lacrosse Championship, including a complete bracket, log onto ncaa.com.

For ticket information, call the Notre Dame ticket office at 574-631-7356 or visit www.UND.com/buytickets. Ticket office hours are 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. ET.

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Robby Hamman joined Fighting Irish Media as athletics communications assistant director in September 2016, coordinating efforts for the volleyball and men’s lacrosse program. Hamman is a 2010 graduate of Bethel College, where he earned bachelor’s degrees in sport management and business administration, and earned his master’s degree in business administration from Defiance College in 2013.