Terps-Greyhounds will meet for first time in 14 years
Maryland-Loyola will be the seventh NCAA lacrosse championship game pitting schools from the same state. The first four involved Maryland. The last two have pitted Syracuse and Cornell.
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Oddly enough, Maryland and Loyola have played each other only twice in the last 52 years. In 1989, Maryland lost at Loyola, 10-8, in the regular season. In the 1998 NCAA tournament semifinals, Maryland beat Loyola, 19-8. Both those Loyola teams were coached by Dave Cottle, who guided Maryland from 2002-2010.
The teams had an annual series which ran from 1940-59, with the Terrapins winning all 18 meetings. Maryland didn’t field a team in the war years of 1944-45.
Here are the other NCAA finals pitting teams from the same state:
2009 – Syracuse 10, Cornell 9
1988 – Syracuse 13, Cornell 8
1979 – Johns Hopkins 15, Maryland 9
1975 – Maryland 20, Navy 13
1974 – Johns Hopkins 17, Maryland 12
1973 – Maryland 10, Johns Hopkins 9
