Brown Bears Will Play at Denver in NCAA Lacrosse Tournament
Brown news release…
Providence, R.I. –The Brown men’s lacrosse team earned an at-large berth into the NCAA Division I Men’s Lacrosse Championship and will travel to Denver, Colorado on Sunday, May 10 to face the fourth-seeded Denver Pioneers at Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium. The game will be televised on ESPNU, starting at 1 pm MDT.
The winner of the first-round game will take on the winner of No. 5 seed Duke and Ohio State in the NCAA Quarterfinals at Sports Authority Field on May 16.
The Bears will be making their first appearance in the NCAA Tournament since 2009 after winning their ninth Ivy League Championship in 2015.
Coach Lars Tiffany’s Brown lacrosse team finished its regular season with a 12-4 record, just one victory short of the school record, 4-2 in the Ivy League, sharing the Ivy title with Cornell and Princeton, and gaining the number one seed in the Ivy League Tournament.
Denver, coached by former Princeton coach Bill Tierney, posted a 13-2 record and captured the Big East Championship.
Brown will be making its 13th appearance in the NCAA Tournament. Bears were a Final Four team in 1994 and last appeared in the NCAA Championship in 2009, falling to Johns Hopkins in overtime.
Brown features a high-scoring offense ranked fifth nationally with 14.25 goals per game, and is paced by sophomore attackman Dylan Molloy, the Ivy League Player of the Year, who led the nation in scoring with 59 goals, tying the Brown record for goals in a season. The Bears’ attack also featured two more 30-goal scorers, juniors Henry Blynn (37 goals) and Kylor Bellistri (33 goals).
On the defensive end, first team All-Ivy goalie Jack Kelly led the Ivy League and ranked 10th nationally in save percentage (.567) and 11th nationally in saves per game (11.69). Sophomore long stick middy Larken Kemp ranked fourth in the nation in caused turnovers per game.
NCAA Division I Lacrosse Championship
1. Notre Dame (10-2)
vs. Towson (11-5, CAA)/High Point (10-6, SoCon) Saturday, 5 p.m., ESPNU
8. Cornell (10-5)
vs. Albany (15-2, America East) Saturday, Noon, ESPNU
5. Duke (12-5)
vs. Ohio State (11-6) Saturday, 7:30 p.m., ESPNU
4. Denver (13-2, Big East)
vs. Brown (12-4), Sunday, 3 p.m., ESPNU
3. North Carolina (12-3)
vs. Colgate (10-5, Patriot) Sunday, 5:15 p.m., ESPNU
6. Maryland (12-3)
vs. Yale (11-4), Saturday, 2:30 p.m., ESPNU
7. Virginia (10-4)
vs. Johns Hopkins (9-6, Big Ten), Sunday, 1 p.m., ESPNU
2. Syracuse (12-2, ACC)
vs. Marist (13-3, MAAC)/Bryant (8-9, NEC), Sunday, 7:30 p.m., ESPNU
