1987 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament
The 1987 NCAA Division I lacrosse tournament was the 17th annual tournament hosted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to determine the team champion of men's college lacrosse among its Division I programs, held at the end of the 1987 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse season.
| 1987 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teams | 12 | ||||
| Finals site | Rutgers Stadium Piscataway, New Jersey | ||||
| Champions | Johns Hopkins (7th title) | ||||
| Runner-up | Cornell (5th title game) | ||||
| Semifinalists | Maryland (11th Final Four) Syracuse (6th Final Four) | ||||
| Winning coach | Don Zimmerman (3rd title) | ||||
| MOP | Tim Goldstein, Cornell | ||||
| Attendance | 17,077 finals 49,782 total | ||||
| Top scorer | Tim Goldstein, Cornell (25 goals) | ||||
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Johns Hopkins defeated Cornell in the championship game, 11–10. This was the seventh NCAA championship for Hopkins since tournament play began in 1971–and third in four years–and was also their twelfth appearance out of sixteen title matches.
The championship game was played at Rutgers Stadium at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, with 16,901 fans in attendance.
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