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I'm whipping together a tutorial on the selection process for the MCLA tournament for our readers (Lacrosse Magazine) and was hoping to include a factoid about the success (or lackthereof) of the top seed at the national championships.

I'll admit to not digging terribly deep on the web, but I was wondering if anyone could help me cobble together the top seeds in the tournament for the last decade or so and how they finished up?

Got 'em all now -- much thanks to fsusg, who had the tourney program:

2007
D-I: Top seed BYU; Winner #1 BYU
D-II: Top seed SJU; Winner #3 Montana

2006
D-I: Top seed CSU; Winner #1 CSU
D-II: Top seed San Diego; Winner #1 San Diego

2005
D-I: Top seed BYU; Winner #2 UCSB
D-II: Top seed San Diego; Winner #1 San Diego

2004
D-I: Top seed UCSB; Winner #1 UCSB

2003
D-I: Top seed UCSB; Winner #2 CSU

2002
D-I: Top Seed Sonoma; Winner #1 Sonoma

2001
D-I: Top seed Michigan; Winner #3 CSU

2000
D-I: Top seed Cal; Winner #6 BYU

1999
D-I: Top seed BYU; Winner #3 CSU

1998
D-I: Top seed BYU; Winner #2 Cal

1997
D-I: Top seed Arizona; Winner #4 BYU

Rgrds,
JAC

2002
Top Seed: Sonoma State
winner: Sonoma State
I believe it was the first time a #1 seed won the tourney.

Pretty sure that CSU was seeded #1 in 2003 and won the title and UCSB was seeded #1 in 2004 and won the title.

2001
Top Seed: Michigan?
winner: CSU?

2003
Top Seed: UCSB?
winner: CSU

2004
Top Seed: UCSB
winner: UCSB

2005
Top Seed: BYU
winner: UCSB

2006
Top Seed: CSU?
winner: CSU

1997 Winner: BYU
Top Seed: BYU?

1998 Winner: Cal
Top Seed: BYU?

1999 Winner: CSU
Top Seed: Probably CSU or BYU

2000 Winner: BYU
Top Seed: Probably CSU, BYU, or Michigan

2001 Winner: CSU
Top Seed: Probably CSU, BYU, or Michigan

1997 - I believe Arizona was the top seed.

2001 Top Seed was Michigan.

Pretty sure that Top seed and winner for D2 in 2006 & 2005 was USD. That's as far back as D2 goes, tourney-wise.

westcoastlax wrote:2002
Top Seed: Sonoma State
winner: Sonoma State
I believe it was the first time a #1 seed won the tourney.

Also only team to go undefeated during the season & tourney.

UCSB was the #2 seed in 2003. CSU was #1 I think.

2005 top seed for D1 was BYU..... After FSU upset BYU in OT in the quarters -- UCSB beat Sonoma 8-7 in the final at NSC in Minnesota.

2005 top seed for D2 was San Diego... USD beat UVSC in the final game that year.

Sonny wrote:2005 top seed for D1 was BYU..... After FSU upset BYU in OT in the quarters -- UCSB beat Sonoma 8-7 in the final at NSC in Minnesota.

2005 top seed for D2 was San Diego... USD beat UVSC in the final game that year.

Still haven't quite thawed out from those games yet.

UkraineNotWeak wrote:Pretty sure that CSU was seeded #1 in 2003 and won the title and UCSB was seeded #1 in 2004 and won the title.

We were the #3 seed in 1999 and 2001. We were #2 in 2002 and 2003 (we wore green in the championship vs. UCSB).

Looks like the MCLA has it's own version of the NCAA's Princeton/Syracuse/Virginia/Hopkins. I don't see anyone other than Duke taking the NCAA's this year. Maybe Michigan can take the MCLA? A new champion for both leagues?

or maybe a Duluth-maybe a Duluth/Michigan final? Would that be different.