MAY MADNESS HISTORY
1992
Princeton 10, Syracuse 9 (2OT) Franklin Field, Philadelphia
Princeton had never won an NCAA
championship when it met top-ranked Syracuse in the 1992 fi nal at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. Andy Moe scored nine seconds into double-overtime to give Princeton its fi rst NCAA championship in any sport since 1964. The Tigers went on to win six national
championships in nine years under coach Bill Tierney. Kevin Lowe, a Hall of Fame attackman, played on two of those title teams.
1985
Kevin Lowe: We came storming out on them. They were surprised. With our team, we were kind of a nobody. We had a bunch of nobodies, but everyone that played against us knew we had players. We weren’t the best team, but we knew nobody was going to beat us. We played a brutally fundamental style of game. There wasn’t any fl ash to it. But it certainly was effective.
New Hampshire 6, Maryland 5 Franklin Field, Philadelphia
New Hampshire went 9-3 in the regular season and
received one of four invitations to the NCAA tournament. It beat then-defending champion Temple 7-3 in the semifi nals and then defeated 1984 runner-up Maryland in the title game. It’s the only NCAA championship in New Hampshire
history in any sport. Katey Stone, now the U.S. Olympic women’s ice hockey coach, was a freshman on that Wildcats team.
Katey Stone: We had a great team. It was an unbelievable dynamic. We had so much fun. We traveled all over the place. It was a great vibe. Our team was in incredible shape. We were very mentally
tough. We matched up very similarly to Temple more so than Maryland. They had a lot of multi-sport athletes at that time and a lot of speed. It was a track meet. It was pretty exciting. It was a 6-5 game. It was tight. There weren’t a lot of turnovers. It was smart lacrosse. We had a blast. Back then, to be a northern school playing for
a national championship in lacrosse was unheard of. We had a great group. Every time we went on the road, we enjoyed it. We had a lot of positive energy that really propelled us forward. It’s a great privilege. We’re very lucky — all of us. It was a special group of people.”
— as told to Phil Shore
The tenacity of our defense caught them by surprise. They were surprised we weren’t intimidated by them. A lot of teams were. We weren’t one bit. It all kind of surprised them. We were feeling pretty good. We had a six-goal
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