ACC's Notre Dame and Syracuse Earn Top Seeds in NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship

ESPNU to Televise All First-Round Games

ESPN2, ESPNU and WatchESPN will provide exclusive coverage of the 2015 NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship Presented by Northwestern Mutual beginning with first-round games on Saturday, May 9, and concluding with the national title game on Monday, May 25. The top two seeds in the championship - No. 1 Notre Dame and No. 2 Syracuse, both from the Atlantic Coast Conference - take to the field for first-round action on ESPNU on Saturday, May 9, at 5 p.m. ET and Sunday, May 10, at 7:30 p.m., respectively.

The Lost Trophy, the story behind why the greatest college lacrosse team from Syracuse had its NCAA title vacated in 1990, will debut on Saturday, May 9, at 11a.m. on ESPNU.

ESPN's top lacrosse commentating team will again be in position throughout the NCAA Championship, led by veteran play-by-play voice Eamon McAnaney, along with analyst Quint Kessenich and sideline reporter/analyst Paul Carcaterra. The trio will call the two quarterfinal games on Sunday, May 17, from Annapolis, Md., in addition to the national semifinals on Saturday, May 23, and the title game on Monday, May 25, from Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. Calling the quarterfinal games from Denver will be Mike Corey, Matt Ward and Ryan Boyle.

Joining ESPN's early-round coverage are analysts Carcaterra (All-American at Syracuse), Boyle (four-time Princeton All-American), Ward (Tewaaraton trophy winner and Virginia attackman), as well as Mark Dixon (Johns Hopkins midfielder), Ryan Flanagan (North Carolina defenseman) and Jamie Munro (Brown All-American). Calling game action will be McAnaney (Notre Dame defenseman), Corey, as well as Jason Benetti, Joe Beninati and Booker Corrigan.

Anish Shroff will host ESPN's studio coverage throughout the championship. He will be joined by Kessenich at ESPNU studios in Charlotte, N.C., for first-round games, followed by Flanagan for the quarterfinals and semifinals. The studio duo of Shroff and Boyle will move to Philadelphia for full analysis of the title game on Monday.

The women's championship weekend opens from PPL Park, also in Philadelphia, on Friday, May 22, with the national semifinals shown on ESPN3, followed by the title game on Sunday, May 24, airing on ESPNU and WatchESPN. Joe Beninati will have the call of the three games with analysts Courtney Connor (Maryland All-American) and Sheehan Stanwick Burch (Georgetown four-time All-American).

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ESPN Network's Coverage of the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship Presented by Northwestern Mutual (subject to change)

Date Time (ET) Game / Commentators Network(s)

Sat, May 9 Noon First Round: Albany at No. 8 seed Cornell Eamon McAnaney, Paul Carcaterra ESPNU / WatchESPN 2:30 p.m. First Round: Yale at No. 6 seed Maryland Mike Corey, Matt Ward ESPNU / WatchESPN 5 p.m. First Round: Winner of Towson/High Point at No. 1 seed Notre Dame Jason Benetti, Ryan Boyle ESPNU / WatchESPN 7:30 p.m. First Round: Ohio State at No. 5 seed Duke Joe Beninati, Ryan Flanagan ESPNU / WatchESPN

Sun, May 10 1 p.m. First Round: Johns Hopkins at No. 7 seed Virginia Mike Corey, Matt Ward ESPNU / WatchESPN 3 p.m. First Round: Brown at No. 4 seed Denver Scott Corrigan, Jamie Munro ESPNU / WatchESPN 5:15 p.m. First Round: Colgate at No. 3 seed North Carolina Joe Beninati, Mark Dixon ESPNU / WatchESPN 7:30 p.m. First Round: Winner of Marist/Bryant at No. 2 Syracuse Eamon McAnaney, Paul Carcaterra ESPNU / WatchESPN

Sat, May 16 3 p.m. Quarterfinal (Sports Authority Field at Mile High, Denver) Mike Corey, Matt Ward, Ryan Boyle ESPNU / WatchESPN 5:30 p.m. Quarterfinal (Sports Authority Field at Mile High, Denver) Mike Corey, Matt Ward, Ryan Boyle ESPNU / WatchESPN

Sun, May 17 Noon Quarterfinal (Navy-Marine Corps Stadium, Annapolis, Md.) Eamon McAnaney, Quint Kessenich, Paul Carcaterra ESPN2 / WatchESPN 2:30 p.m. Quarterfinal (Navy-Marine Corps Stadium, Annapolis, Md.) Eamon McAnaney, Quint Kessenich, Paul Carcaterra ESPN2 / WatchESPN

Sat, May 23 1 p.m. Semifinal: Game #1 (Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia) Eamon McAnaney, Quint Kessenich, Paul Carcaterra ESPN2 / WatchESPN 3:30 p.m. Semifinal: Game #2 (Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia) Eamon McAnaney, Quint Kessenich, Paul Carcaterra ESPN2 / WatchESPN

Mon, May 25 1 p.m. National Championship (Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia) Eamon McAnaney, Quint Kessenich, Paul Carcaterra ESPN2 / WatchESPN National Championship Spider Cam (Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia) ESPNU / WatchESPN

ESPN's Coverage of the 2015 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship Presented by Northwestern Mutual (Subject to change)

Date Time (ET) Game/Commentators Network

Fri, May 22 5 p.m. Semifinal: Game #1 (PPL Park, Philadelphia) Joe Beninati, Courtney Connor, Sheehan Stanwick Burch ESPN3 7:30 p.m. Semifinal: Game #2 (PPL Park, Philadelphia) Joe Beninati, Courtney Connor, Sheehan Stanwick Burch ESPN3

Sun, May 24 8:30 p.m. National Championship (PPL Park, Philadelphia) Joe Beninati, Courtney Connor, Sheehan Stanwick Burch ESPNU / WatchESPN