The 2022 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship was the 40th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of Division I NCAA women's college lacrosse. The semifinal and championship rounds will be played at Homewood Field in Baltimore, MD from May 27–29, 2022. All other rounds were played at campus sites, usually at the home field of the higher-seeded team, from May 13–19. North Carolina won the national championship, 12-11 over Boston College.https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/lacrosse-women/d1/2022
Tournament field All NCAA Division I women's lacrosse programs were eligible for this championship, and a total of 29 teams were invited to participate. 15 teams qualified automatically by winning their conference tournaments, while the remaining 14 teams qualified at-large based on their regular season records.
Teams Seed School Conference Berth Type RPI Record1 North Carolina ACC Automatic118–02 Maryland Big Ten Automatic217–13 Boston College ACC At-large316–34 Northwestern Big Ten At-large413–45 Syracuse ACC At-large613–56 Loyola (MD) Patriot Automatic1018–17 Florida American Automatic515–48 Stony Brook America East At-large814–2 Central Michigan MAC Automatic7412–7 Denver Big East Automatic917–2 Drexel CAA Automatic3712–7 Duke ACC At-large1315–3 Fairfield MAAC Automatic3213–6 Jacksonville ASUN Automatic2113–4 James Madison CAA At-large1213–4 Johns Hopkins Big Ten At-large1510–8 Mercer Big South Automatic3414–4 Michigan Big Ten At-large2010–6 Mount St. Mary's NEC Automatic4515–4 Notre Dame ACC At-large179–9 Princeton Ivy Automatic1114–3 Rutgers Big Ten At-large715–4 Saint Joseph's Atlantic 10 Automatic2914–6 Stanford Pac-12 Automatic2612–6 UConn Big East At-large1413–4 UMass Atlantic 10 At-large1916–3 USC Pac-12 At-large1613–4 Vermont America East Automatic3314–4 Virginia ACC At-large189–9
Bracket
Tournament bracket
*First and second round host
See also NCAA Division II Women's Lacrosse Championship NCAA Division III Women's Lacrosse Championship NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
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