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From Selection Sunday to Memorial Day Monday, the college championships gave us chills, thrills and milestones
May 7
A lot of fi rsts, as Air Force and Richmond and Bryant and Siena meet in a pair of play- in games, ushering in the 18-team NCAA Division I men’s tournament fi eld. Richmond made its fi rst NCAA tournament in the program’s inaugural season by winning the Atlantic Sun. Air Force reached its fi rst tourney since 1988, and got its fi rst win by beating the Spiders.
Mount Union wins an NCAA Division III women’s tournament game in its second season as varsity, topping Keuka 16-5.
Four members of Springfi eld’s 1994 Division II championship team face off as coaches in the
Division III men’s fi rst round. Springfi eld’s Keith Bugbee, who was the coach then, faces his former player John Klepacki, now the coach of Western New England. Endicott’a Sean Quirk and Keene State’s Steve Theriault meet in another fi rst-round game. The four coaches and that 1994 Springfi eld team later are honored at halftime of the Division II championship game on its 20th anniversary.
A Pool B bloodbath. Last spring, the fi ve independent entrants to the NCAA Division III men’s tournament all lost in the fi rst round by a combined scored of 82- 34. This year, Pool B teams go 0-5 again, by a combined score of 88-28.
Former Washington College players Steve Beville (’85) and Jason Paige (’95) meet as coaches when Cortland and Keuka, respectively, tangle in the fi rst round. The Red Dragons cruise to a 20-6 win. Afterward, Beville and Paige take a photo together and send it to their former coach, Terry Corcoran, now the coach at Wabash.
MAY 4 Selection Sunday.
Harvard beat out Hofstra in a two-team debate for the last spot in the NCAA Division I men’s tournament, giving the Ivy League three teams in the dance. (All three lost in the fi rst round.)
Big East runner-up Georgetown snuck in with the
last at-large bid in the Division I women’s tournament.
LIU Post, apparently dead in the water for an NCAA Division II men’s berth at 6-5 just 15 days earlier, is in the tournament thanks to a run through the inaugural ECC tournament. The Pioneers go on to dump defending NCAA champ Le Moyne and Adelphi on the road to the title game.
The quest for the last bid in the South is a contested race, but Queens, with wins over Mercyhurst and Pfeiffer, gets its fi rst NCAA Division II men’s tournament appearance.
MAY 9-10
Winning streaks for both Denver programs — 17 straight games for the women, 12 straight games for the men — continue after fi rst- round victories over Jacksonville and North Carolina, respectively.
May 9 Duke unveils unconventional uniforms in its fi rst-round win over Stanford, and
then becomes the only unseeded team to advance to the quarterfi nals with a win over Notre Dame. The uniforms resemble soccer jerseys with a V-neck top and horizontal blue stripes.
Louisville beats Ohio State on Nikki Boltja’s free position goal in double overtime for the Cardinals’ fi rst NCAA tournament victory in team history.
May 10
Maryland, after trailing for nearly the entire game, has the last laugh, beating Cornell on a Mike Chanenchuk goal with 2.2 seconds left after a timer-on scramble/timeout. Up I-95 in Baltimore, Albany’s Lyle Thompson bests Loyola’s Joe Fletcher in a Tewaaraton showdown, setting the NCAA single-season scoring record in a 13-6 upset.
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Lindenwood, a second-year program and one-time WCLA power, makes the NCAA tournament in fi rst year of eligibility and knocks off traditional South power Limestone, becoming the fi rst team in school history to make a fi nal four in any sport.
Second-seeded Tampa takes down third- seeded Mercyhurst to justify its higher seed in the Division II men’s tournament.
Coach Rory Whipple brought the start-up program to the playoffs in just its third season. His son, Georgetown transfer Connor Whipple, fi nishes with 49 goals and 41 assists.
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