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NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Final Four: Game Times, Bracket, TV/Streaming Info, Tickets

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Boston College is going back to the NCAA women’s lacrosse Final Four.

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Johnny Unitas Stadium on the campus of Towson University, Towson, MD

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Tickets are on sale here ; all-session packages are available for $50

Game times, matchups, and TV

The national semifinals will be held on Friday, May 28

12:00 PM ET: #1 North Carolina vs. #4 Boston College - ESPNU 2:00 PM ET (or thereabouts): #2 Northwestern vs. #3 Syracuse - ESPNU

The national championship game will be held on Sunday, May 30, at 12:00 PM, and will also be televised on ESPNU.

Friday’s semifinals can be streamed on WatchESPN and the ESPN app. - Link here for Friday -Link here for Sunday

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• This year’s Final Four features two undefeated teams - UNC, who are a staggering 20-0 against a stacked ACC; and Northwestern, who is 15-0 and champions of the Big Ten.
• Three ACC teams are in the Final Four - UNC, BC and Syracuse
• The Eagles are in their fourth consecutive Final Four
• There have been no upsets yet in the entire NCAA tournament - everything has gone chalk and the top 4 seeds are at the Final Four. BC and Syracuse will look to change that on Friday.

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Women’s Lacrosse Heads to Ohio State Thursday Night

• Despite a late comeback attempt, the Scarlet Knights lost to No. 15 Stony Brook, 13-10, last Tuesday at LaValle Stadium. Down as many as eight on the night, RU rallied with six consecutive goals across the third and fourth quarters to draw within two before the Seawolves held on in the final minutes for the victory.
•  Junior Alexa Corbin tallied a team-high four points on three helpers and a goal, graduate student Cassidy Spilis netted a hat trick and juniors Victoria Goldrick and Michelle Warren added two goals apiece. Rookie Reese Robinson collected two points in the second half, while junior Emalie Clothier and sophomore Ava Kane contributed assists. Senior Mikayla Dever netted a clutch goal during RU's comeback attempt.
•  The Seawolves used a 27-18 shot advantage and a 9-2 scoring run across two halves for the out-of-conference win. It was the fourth consecutive season the two programs have met after Rutgers secured its first win in the series last spring at SHI Stadium. Both teams also played one another in the 2021 and 2022 NCAA Tournaments.
• With her three goals on Tuesday night, Spilis is now three points away from surpassing current assistant coach Taralyn Naslonski for the most points in program history at 267.
• Spilis is already the program's all-time leader in career goals (251) and ranks second in career draw controls (294) and X in career caused turnovers (90).
• With two games left in the regular season, Spilis is third nationally in goals (62) and fifth in goals per game (4.21). The Tabernacle, New Jersey, native is also fourth in the Big Ten in points per game with 4.43 and draw controls per game (5.64).
• After missing her first two seasons due to injury, Goldrick is fourth in the Big ten in both assists (23) and assists per game (1.64). Goldrick's 23 helpers lead the team this season, while her 35 points rank second.
• The Buckeyes enter Thursday with a 7-7 record, losing at No. 1 Northwestern, 19-10, last Saturday in their last time out.
• Jaimie Lasda leads OSU's offense with 43 points on 37 goals and six helpers this season.
• Between the pipes, Regan Alexander is third in the conference in both saves (125) and save percentage (8.93).
• Rutgers leads the all-time series with Ohio State, 8-5, which includes victories in the last five meetings dating back to 2021.
• The Scarlet Knights won in dramatic season against the Buckeyes last spring, courtesy of a 13-12 overtime win on April 20, 2023 at SHI Stadium. Down five goals in the fourth quarter, Rutgers rallied for the overtime victory, which was capped by a game-winning goal from Lily Dixon .
• Rutgers closes the regular season Sunday at Vermont. First draw is set for noon ET and will stream on ESPN+.

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Game Coverage

Women’s Championship (WakeMed Soccer Park – Cary, N.C.)

Friday, May 26

Semifinal #1: No. 1 Northwestern vs No. 5 Denver | 3 p.m. ET, ESPNU/ESPN+

Semifinal #2: No. 2 Syracuse vs No. 3 Boston College | 5:30 p.m., ESPNU/ESPN+

Sunday, May 28

National Championship Game | Noon, ESPN/ESPN+

All games available on ESPN+ on the ESPN app.

Matchup Highlights

• The field features four of the top-five seeds in this year’s bracket; Boston College (1) and Northwestern (7) have combined to win eight NCAA women’s lacrosse titles
• Still undefeated – Denver, making its first Championship Weekend appearance, enters the weekend with a 22-0 record this season; the Pioneers could become the second consecutive unbeaten champion following North Carolina won the title in 2022 (22-0 record)
• Syracuse is making its ninth national semifinal appearance, while Boston College is making its sixth straight
• Northwestern’s Izzy Scane leads the nation with 6.67 goals per game pacing the Wildcats’ NCAA-leading offense with 17.0 goals per game; Syracuse’s Meaghan Tyrrell ranks second in the nation with 5.35 points per game leading the Orange’s scoring offense (16.50 ppg) that ranks third nationally
• Four of the five Tewaaraton Award finalists will be in action this weekend: Boston College’s Jenn Medjid, Northwestern’s Erin Coykendall and Izzy Scane, and Syracuse’s Meaghan Tyrrell
• Cameras will be stationed throughout WakeMed Soccer Park to capture the action, including SupraCam aerial coverage, Super Mo, three marshall cameras offering unique vantage points and goal cameras
• Game officials will wear microphones during the semifinals and championship, providing on-field dialogue during penalty calls

Commentators

• Play-by-play commentator  Jay Alter  and analysts  Sheehan Stanwick Burch (four-time All American at Georgetown, 2001 National Attacker of the Year and Class of 2021 National Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee) and  Dana Boyle (former Virginia Cavalier and member of 2013 All-ACC team) will call all the action.
• Drew Carter will host studio coverage alongside Rachael Becker DeCecco (2019 US Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee, Tewaaraton Trophy winner and two-time NCAA Champion with Princeton) and Charlotte North (two-time Tewaaraton Trophy winner and NCAA Champion with Boston College) surrounding the national semifinals. Carter and North will be live from WakeMed Soccer Park for National Championship Game coverage.

ACC Network With two ACC teams participating in this weekend’s championship, ACC Network’s studio shows All ACC and ACC PM will have coverage throughout as well as into next week celebrating the conference’s spring sport season success.

Games airing on ESPN platforms are also available through the ESPN App, accessible on computers, smartphones, tablets and connected devices to fans who receive their video subscription from an affiliated provider.

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• Making 40 th NCAA Championships appearance (second to Utah's 42) after winning NCAA Gainesville Regional with a season-high 198.325.
• Won sixth consecutive Southeastern Conference regular-season team title (6-1). Fourth at SEC Championship meet (197.30).
• Florida has three totals among nation's top 30: No. T15 (198.325), No. 25 (198.225) and No. 26 (198.15).
• Florida has three 2024 vault totals among nation's top 5 – No. T4 49.60 (Feb. 23 vs LSU) and No. T5 49.575 (April 5 & April 7 in NCAA Regional).  
• Two Gators claim five Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association (WCGA) All-America regular-season honors – Anya Pilgrim (second-team all-around and vault) and Leanne Wong (first team: uneven bars; second team – all-around, balance beam)
• Three with SEC postseason honors. Victoria Nguyen and Leanne Wong earn their third consecutive All-SEC honor. Anya Pilgrim is part of SEC All-Freshman team.
• Two Gators earned three 10.0s this season. Florida junior Leanne Wong earned her fourth uneven bars 10.0 of career on Feb. 9. Wong's floor exercise 10.0 on Feb. 23 finished her Gym Slam – the 15 th in NCAA history and the fourth Gator. Freshman Anya Pilgrim earned her first collegiate 10.0 on floor exercise at Kentucky on March 3.
• Five different Gators won all-around titles this season – Leanne Wong (5), Anya Pilgrim (2), Sloane Blakely (1), Ellie Lazzari (1) and Victoria Nguyen (1) – the largest array of UF all-around winners since the 2017 season.
• There are 38 gymnasts across the nation who have turned in 148 all-around totals of 39.625 or better this season. Florida leads with five different gymnasts with appearances on that list, with California and Oklahoma next with four each. The five Gators are Sloane Blakely (39.625 season high), Ellie Lazzari (39.65), Victoria Nguyen (39.625), Anya Pilgrim (39.675) and Leanne Wong (39.875).
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NCAA Women Beat Men in Finals’ Ratings for First Time—but Got 99% Less TV Money

T he NCAA women’s basketball tournament final Sunday drew more viewers than the men’s final for the first time in history, fueled in part by Iowa standout Caitlin Clark’s rise to superstardom and marking a stunning moment for the sport.

But that won’t be reflected in the money each side earned for TV rights: $6.5 million for the women’s tournament and $873 million for the men’s.

The wide discrepancy raises the question of whether college athletics officials have failed to capitalize on a surge in popularity in the women’s game. A new deal that goes into effect next season will allocate some $65 million a year for the women’s game, a substantial jump but still a fraction of the men’s haul.

Part of the disparity stems from the structure of the deals. While the men’s college-basketball tournament is sold as a stand-alone entity, the women’s is offered as part of a bundle that encompasses 40 sports championships, from volleyball to lacrosse.

Sunday’s women’s final attracted 18.9 million viewers, according to Nielsen, almost four times what the women’s final drew just two years ago. The last basketball game to be watched by more people was the 2019 NCAA men’s final between Virginia and Texas Tech, which drew 19.6 million viewers.

Monday’s NCAA men’s final between Connecticut and Purdue was watched by 14.8 million. Because the women’s final aired on ABC—a broadcast network, which like ESPN is owned by Disney—it was available to a bigger pool of potential viewers than the men’s game, which was on Warner Bros. Discovery’s TBS and required a cable-TV-like subscription. (Cable TV has lost more than a quarter of its subscribers over the past decade.) On the other hand, the men’s final was played in prime time Monday, while the women’s game aired on Sunday afternoon.

Valuing media-rights deals is challenging—it’s hard to know when there will be a sudden surge in interest like the one women’s college basketball is enjoying. And while the final rounds of a tournament are important, sustained viewership interest over dozens of earlier games can drive prices up. The men’s entire tournament averaged 9.9 million viewers per game, far surpassing the women’s, which attracted an average of 2.2 million viewers, according to data from Warner Bros. Discovery and ESPN.

When the NCAA signed an eight-year, $115 million-a-year deal with ESPN that will give the women’s basketball tournament a 10-fold rights increase starting next season, it happened just as Clark was becoming a national sensation, setting all sorts of scoring and viewership records.

“I’m sure that they thought they were getting fair value at the time,” John Skipper, the chief executive of Meadowlark Media and former president of ESPN, said of the deal that the league reached with the network in January.

Charlie Baker, the president of the NCAA, reaffirmed his confidence in the new deal with ESPN in a Sunday interview, calling the network a “great partner.”

Revenue from NCAA media rights supports the nonprofit organization’s operations and provides money for scholarships, athletic departments’ budgets and other programs. None of that money goes directly to athletes in the form of a salary. But college stars are now able to leverage their celebrity by making deals with outside sponsors, thanks to the NCAA’s 2021 decision to let athletes earn money from their name, image and likeness rights.

That means that elite players like Clark can still profit off the increased popularity of the women’s game. Women’s basketball players are in a strong position to develop brands while in college, since WNBA draft rules require them to be four years out of high school. That is in contrast to the biggest male basketball stars, who can jump to the NBA in a year.

In 2021, in the wake of a viral video showing the tiny weight room at the NCAA women’s tournament compared with a sprawling complex at the men’s, the NCAA commissioned an external gender-equity review. One recommendation was to market the rights to the women’s tournament as a stand-alone property, something the NCAA ultimately decided against.

Part of the thinking was the NCAA’s desire for broad coverage of all its sports. It would have been difficult to find outlets willing and able to handle televising cross country, water polo and dozens of other championships in addition to women’s basketball. It also had to do with execution. Few media companies are equipped to handle the volume of a three-week, 68-team tournament, and ESPN with its multiple channels has the capacity and experience to do so.

The most valuable college-sports media property is college football, worth billions annually, but the NCAA lost control of those broadcast rights after a 1984 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that its TV plan violated federal antitrust law. Athletic conferences and the College Football Playoff now control football broadcast rights.

The NCAA retains the rights to the championships in the other sports it oversees, and has sold the most prominent ones in two separate deals. One is the continuing contract with CBS and Turner for the men’s basketball tournament, which brought in $873 million this year. The other is the just-completed $115 million deal with ESPN, which includes 21 women’s and 19 men’s championships.

Patrick Crakes, a sports media consultant and former senior executive at Fox, said the NCAA’s latest deal with ESPN was a fair one. While Clark helped lift viewership to new heights, she is now headed to the WNBA and it will be a challenge to keep those who solely tuned in to watch her, he said.

In many ways, Clark’s effect on women’s basketball has been similar to that of Michael Jordan in the NBA. Jordan lifted a sometimes-struggling league to wider fame, with the 1998 Bulls-Jazz Finals series drawing an average 29 million viewers, capped by Game 6’s record 35.9 million.

“You have these moments in all sports where you have this transcending figure come about,” Crakes said. “And when they leave, the building’s still there. Things have been advanced, but things don’t ever quite look the same.”

Ratings indicate that viewers were interested in watching games that didn’t feature Clark this tournament. Excluding Iowa’s games, viewership through the Elite Eight women’s games was up 73% from last year, ESPN said.

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• College basketball teams with the most WNBA 1st-round draft picks

While hundreds of elite former women's college basketball stars have heard their names called since the first WNBA draft in 1997, one program stands above the rest on the list of schools that have produced the most first-round draft picks. That's UConn, the 11-time national championship-winning program. The Huskies have had 27 first-round picks, which is by far the most in the country.

In the 2024 WNBA draft, the Indiana Fever selected the University of Iowa's Caitlin Clark as No. 1 overall. 

Here are the colleges with the most WNBA first-round draft picks (through 2024):

Do you see the trend with these particular schools? These 10 schools have combined for 31 national championships. 

Since 1997, 25 of the 28 top overall picks came from NCAA Division I schools. The remaining three came from overseas.

No school has produced more No. 1 overall picks than Connecticut, which has five.

UConn's five No. 1 overall picks are Sue Bird (2002, Seattle Storm), Diana Taurasi (2004, Phoenix Mercury), Tina Charles (2010, Connecticut Sun), Maya Moore (2011, Minnesota Lynx) and Breanna Stewart (2016, Seattle Storm).

In all, 18 schools have had at least one No. 1 pick taken, with five having more than one.

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