| 2009 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament | |||||
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| Dates | May 9–25, 2009 | ||||
| Teams | 16 | ||||
| Finals site | Gillette Stadium Foxborough, Massachusetts | ||||
| Champions | Syracuse (11th title) | ||||
| Runner-up | Cornell (7th title game) | ||||
| Semifinalists | Duke (5th Final Four) Virginia (20th Final Four) | ||||
| Winning coach | John Desko (5th title) | ||||
| MOP | Kenny Nims, Syracuse | ||||
| Attendance[1] | 36,594 semi-finals 41,935 finals 78,529 total | ||||
| Top scorer | Rob Pannell, Cornell (16 goals) | ||||
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The 2009 NCAA Division I lacrosse tournament was the 39th 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 2009 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse season.[2] The tournament was played from May 9–25, 2009.
Syracuse defeated Cornell in the final, 10–9 in overtime.[3]
The championship game was played at Gillette Stadium, the home of the NFL's New England Patriots, in Foxborough, Massachusetts, with 41,935 fans in attendance.
The first round of the tournament was played on May 9–10 at the home fields of the seeded teams. The quarterfinals were held on May 16–17 on neutral site fields at Hofstra University (James M. Shuart Stadium) and the United States Naval Academy (Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium). The tournament culminated with the semifinals and final held on Memorial Day weekend.[4]
- ^ "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 5 July 2023.
- ^ Syracuse 10, Cornell 9 (OT), Syracuse University, May 25, 2009. Accessed 2009-06-07. Archived 2009-08-01.
- ^ 2009 lacrosse finals to be played at Gillette Stadium, ESPN, January 18, 2008.