A Whole Different Game

The best and worse of the women’s bracket via Inside Lacrosse.

Final 16:
1-seed Northwestern (17-1, ALC champion)
RPI: 1
Top 10 wins: Syracuse, Boston University, Vanderbilt (twice), Georgetown, Notre Dame
11-20 wins: Duke, North Carolina

2-seed Penn (14-1, Ivy League champion)
RPI: 2
Top 10 wins: Northwestern, Princeton
11-20 wins: North Carolina, Cornell, Yale

3-seed Maryland (17-2, at-large bid, ACC runner-up)
RPI: 3
Top 10 wins: Virginia, Princeton, Georgetown
11-20 wins: North Carolina (twice), Towson, Stanford

4-seed Virginia (14-3, ACC champion)
RPI: 4
Top 10 wins: Maryland, Syracuse
11-20 wins: Duke (twice), North Carolina, George Mason, William & Mary

5-seed Syracuse (16-2, Big East champion)
RPI: 6
Top 10 wins: Georgetown (twice), Notre Dame
11-20 wins: Cornell, Towson

6-seed Georgetown (12-6, at-large bid, Big East runner-up)
RPI: 8
Top 10 wins: Virginia, Notre Dame
11-20 wins: Denver, George Mason

7-seed Boston University (17-2, play-in game 1 winner, America East champion)
RPI: 5
Top 10 wins: Vanderbilt
11-20 wins: New Hampshire (twice), Yale, Stanford

8-seed Princeton (12-4, at-large bid, t-2nd Ivy League)
RPI: 7
Top 10 wins: Virginia
11-20 wins: Duke, Cornell, Yale

9. Vanderbilt (13-5, at-large bid, ALC runner-up)
RPI: 10
Top 10 wins: Notre Dame
11-20 wins: Duke, Cornell

10. New Hampshire (13-5, at-large bid, America East runner-up)
RPI: 16
Top 10 wins: Vanderbilt
11-20 wins: Yale, Cornell

11. Duke (11-7, at-large bid, ACC semifinalist)
RPI: 11
Top 10 wins: Maryland, Georgetown
11-20 wins: Denver, William & Mary, Stanford

12. Towson (13-5, CAA champion)
RPI: 15
Top 10 wins: none
11-20 wins: George Mason, William & Mary

13. North Carolina (12-6, at-large bid, ACC semifinalist)
RPI: 9
Top 10 wins: Vanderbilt
11-20 wins: Duke, Denver

14. Temple (13-6, Atlantic-10 champion)
RPI: 36
Top 10 wins: none
11-20 wins: none

15. Colgate (11-9, play-in game 2 winner, Patriot League champion)
RPI: 40
Top 10 wins: none
11-20 wins: none

16. Notre Dame (12-6, at-large bid, Big East semifinalist)
RPI: 12
Top 10 wins: Georgetown
11-20 wins: Duke, Cornell