page_title: College lacrosse
section_title: Division I Men's Lacrosse
hierarchical_section_title: College lacrosse / NCAA Men's Lacrosse / Division I Men's Lacrosse
caption_attribution_description: English: A map of all NCAA Division I lacrosse teams
context_page_description: College lacrosse is played by student-athletes at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. In both countries, men's field lacrosse and women's lacrosse are played at both the varsity and club levels. College lacrosse in Canada is sponsored by the Canadian University Field Lacrosse Association and Maritime University Field Lacrosse League, while in the United States, varsity men's and women's lacrosse is governed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, National Junior College Athletic Association and National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. There are also university lacrosse programs in the United Kingdom sponsored by British Universities and Colleges Sport and programs in Japan.
  In the U.S., as of the 2019–20 academic year, there were 74 NCAA-sanctioned Division I men's lacrosse teams, 75 Division II men's lacrosse teams, and 248 Division III men's lacrosse teams. There are 117 Division I women's lacrosse teams, 114 Division II women's lacrosse teams, and 293 Division III women's lacrosse teams.
context_section_description: Division I men's lacrosse currently has the smallest number of teams compared to the Division II and Division III levels. The 2020 NCAA lacrosse season, canceled in progress due to coronavirus concerns, involved 74 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse teams, with 71 of them organized into 10 conferences, and three teams playing as independent D-I programs without a conference affiliation. These teams are heavily concentrated in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, and only four teams are not in the Eastern Time Zone.
  From 1936 through 1970 the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) selected the Wingate Memorial Trophy winners as national champions based on regular season records.  Beginning in 1971, the National Collegiate Athletic Association began holding an annual championship tournament.
  The most recent national champions from 2019 are the Virginia Cavaliers.
  The most recent changes to men's lacrosse conferences occurred in the 2014 off-season. The Big Ten Conference sponsored the sport for the first time in 2015. The Big Ten move, along with other changes stemming from the early-2010s NCAA conference realignment, led to the demise of ECAC Lacrosse.  The Southern Conference (SoCon) took over men's lacrosse sponsorship from the Atlantic Sun Conference (ASUN), which itself had only added the sport for the 2013–14 school year. This was a friendly takeover, as the two conferences had agreed in January 2014 to form a lacrosse alliance under which they would divide lacrosse sponsorship, with men's shifting to the SoCon and women's remaining with the ASUN. 
  In September 2018 the NCAA rules committee implemented an 80-second shot clock that begins upon possession. A team must advance the ball across midfield within the first 20 seconds, and then 60 seconds to shoot the ball once across midfield. The clock will only reset if the ball hits the goalie or the post. Failure to score before the shot clock runs out results in a change of possession.
  Conferences
  America East Conference
  Atlantic Coast Conference
  Big East Conference
  Big Ten Conference
  Colonial Athletic Association
  Independents — Three schools, all relatively new varsity programs, were independents in the abbreviated 2020 season. Former independent NJIT began play in the Northeast Conference.
  Cleveland State — Added lacrosse for the 2017 season.
  Hampton — Added lacrosse for the 2016 season. Hampton does not play a full varsity schedule yet, with all of their wins coming against D-III and junior college programs. For the 2020 season, Hampton was set to play 8 teams from Division I, 2 from Division II, and 2 from Division III.
  Utah – Added lacrosse for the 2019 season.
  Ivy League
  Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
  Northeast Conference
  Patriot League
  Southern Conference
caption: A map of NCAA Division I men's lacrosse teams.
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