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NCAA Tournament Expanding to 18 Teams for 2014
The NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament will expand to 18 teams beginning with the spring 2014 season with a pair of play-in games. The play-in games, which will continue in spring 2015, will feature the four lowest-ranked automatic qualifying (AQ) berth teams and will be played on dates to be determined, although they will be held after Selection Sunday since play-in participants will be considered official tournament participants after a change in NCAA policy announced last week. The two play-in game winners will play the top two overall seeds in the first round. This year's Division I men's lacrosse landscape includes 10 AQ conferences, with the Atlantic Sun having the status in its first season and the ACC welcoming Notre Dame and Syracuse to bring its number of teams to six, the minimum needed to qualify for AQ status. The two play-in games will maintain the NCAA's 50-50 AQ/at-large tournament composition guideline for the first round, since two AQ teams will be eliminated after the play-in round. There will be eight AQs and eight at-large selections in the first round. For 2014, The CAA has ruled that Penn State is ineligible for its post season tournament. Therefore, for PSU to get into the 2014 NCAA tournament, the Lions will have to be one of the eight at-large teams selected. PSU was an at-large selection in 2013. To read more, click here.
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