2025 NCAA women’s lacrosse tournament: Top players, how to watch
The Lacrosse Women’s Championship begins for 2025 NCAA this week, with games starting on Fridays on campus sites. The field of 29 teams contains 15 automatic and 14 selected sizes.
Boston College is the ruling sports champions, and the eagles will try to become the first team to repeat the holders of the national title for the first time in a decade. But he stands on their way not defeated North Carolina Tar KaabWho already excelled BC twice this season.
The rest of the field includes talented players, interesting stories lines and a handful of teams with real opportunities to agree to a place in the four finals. Let’s disintegrate everything that can be known about the tournament this season.
How does the Lacrosse Women Championship work?
Among the 29 teams that make the field, receive the first three seeds bye in the first round. This year, they belong to the number 1 in North Carolina, and Boston Champions College prevails, northwest of the third seed, which won the championship in 2023.
The best eight seeds in this field get hosting privileges during the end -of -weekend of the tournament. The rest of the first seeds are: No. 4 Florida, No. 5 Virginia, No. 6 Maryland, No. 7 Yale and No. 8 Jones Hopkins. Yes – Johns Hopkins plays many other sports in the third section, but he competes in the first section in men and women’s ladies.
The first round matches will be held on Friday, and the winners of these games will face the centuries of the campus in the second round on Sunday. Among the eight remaining teams in the quarter -finals, the upper seeds will host in each match on May 15, with the winners move to Final Four in FoxBorong, Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts.
The national semi -finals will be held on May 23, with the championship group on May 25.
How to watch Lacrosse Ladies Championship NCAA
Games in the first and second round will be on ESPN+. The quarter -finals and the semi -final in Espnu will be, and the national championship game will be broadcast on Espn at noon on May 25.
Who is the favorite of the 2025 Lacrosse Women’s Championship?
It is North Carolina Tar Heels, which is perfect 18-0 and has 11 wins against opponents in the national rank, Including two against Boston College And one against the northwest. The Tar Heels team, which has been guiding the coach of the national team for a long time, is guided by the second place at the national level in scoring with 17.5 goals for each game and the first defense, allowing only 6.67 goals for each game.
Tar Heels at the TRWAARATON, Chloe and Ashley Humphrey. Chloe, a student in Redshirt, MVP from ACC Championship And the sixth level in the registration with 73 goals this season. Ashley, one of the top graduates, ranked tenth at the national level with a total of 70 decisive passes and 28 goals. Chloe is the first student ever in the Tewaaraton-closer to Heisman for the treatment of women’s Lacos-while Ashley is nine assists away from having a NCAA record all the time.
In the defensive end, the UNC goalkeeper has the fourth best rescue rate in the country at 50.5.
North Carolina will play the role of the winner of Kimmson against the navy on Sunday. TIGERS – who is only three years old – is at the NCAA Championship for the first time, while Navy is on the field for the first time since 2019 under the Hall of Fame Cindy Timchal coach.
What other players deserve to watch?
Rachel Clark of Boston College is the top scorer in the country with the country with 91 this season, while Madison Taylor of North Western has left 89 goals. Taylor also has 32 free goals this season, which leads the country.
In addition to the Boston College, goalkeeper Xia Dolce is the final TEWAARATON. The General goalkeeper was voted on it in the Administrative Coordination Committee and has the best savings in the country at 55.7.
Georgia Watch, a major attack in Liola Maryland, is also an offensive force as it was second at the national level in a total of points with 69 passes and 53 goals. The Saluki Open to Stone Brock on Friday and the winner will face Boston College.
Madison Epke of James Madison is the best in the country in Draw Controls, won 12.61 for each game and a total of 227 in the season. JMU opens the tournament against Duke on Friday.
Defense, Reagan Operation of Johns Hopkins is the queen of forcing the transformations, causing 85 this season and 4.72 per game. Blue Jays opens the championship for freedom.
For the fourth -ranked Florida, Citlene Davis is a little high, as he ranks first in the first three positions in the goals, ground balls, and causes transformations and regulations in clouds. He will lead the GATORS, the 12 Grand Midfielder against Mercer.