Brown Lacrosse Set for NCAA Tourney Showdown With Johns Hopkins
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Brown Lacrosse Set for NCAA Tourney Showdown With Johns Hopkins
The 5th seeded Brown Bears men's lacrosse team is set to take on Johns Hopkins on Saturday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at Brown's Stevenson-Pincince Field.
Like Duke and North Carolina are to college basketball, Johns Hopkins is one of the most storied lacrosse programs in NCAA history. The Blue Jays are making their 44th tournament appearance and are seeking their 10th National Championship.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST"Hosting Johns Hopkins is very meaningful to our fan base and alumni base that understand what their program has accomplished. For us, the objective is to not think about that and just treat them like our next opponent and play our game," said Brown Head Coach Lars Tiffany.
The last time Brown and Johns Hopkins played came in 2009 when the Blue Jays beat the Bears 12-11 in overtime in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The last Brown win over Johns Hopkins came in 1971.
However, in this game, it is Brown with the home field advantage.
Home Cooking
Brown's 5th seed earned them home field advantage in the first round, and in fact, the university will host the second round as well, whether Brown is there or not.
Saturday's game will mark the first time since 1995 that the Bears have played an NCAA Tournament home game.
"It doesn't happen often here that Brown gets to host an NCAA events. We are happy that we were able to get a high seed and have this chance but we haven't done anything yet," said Brown Head Coach Lars Tiffany.
Brown lost one game at home all season and it came last week in the first round of the Ivy League tournament against Harvard. Brown turned the ball over 16 times in that including 6 in the 2nd quarter and 5 in the 4th quarter.
"I don't worry about the turnovers, with the way we play, we are going to have turnovers. I am more worried about shot selection. If we are taking bad shots from far out that lets them turn the ball the other way quickly then those are just like turnovers," Tiffany said. He added "we want to rise into the chaos but not be chaotic ourselves."
Keys to the Game
Brown will also rely on Dylan Molloy, who tallied 106 points so far this season, which ranks him 9th in the NCAA record book for most points in a season. For his career, Molloy has tallied 147 goals, 90 assists and 237 points and counting.
"Dylan Molloy is certainly proving to be one of the best players in the country, maybe the best player in the country. He draws a lot of attention and that creates openings for other guys or himself. We are going to lean heavily on him to lead our offense on Saturday," Tiffany said.
Molloy leads the country in assists and points per game while ranking third in goals with 3.5 per game, needing just four goals to become Brown's all-time leading goal scorer.
Game Information
Brown and Johns Hopkins will do battle for the 12th time in the history of the two programs.
Game time is set for 5 p.m. and will be televised on ESPNU.
The winner of this game will face the winner of the Yale vs. Navy game next Saturday, May 21, at Brown Stadium.
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RI Teams To Win National Championships
PC Basketball 1960-61 NIT
The Providence College Friars won the National Invitation Tournament(NIT) in 1961, defeating St. Louis 62-59 at Madison Square Garden in New York.
At this time, the NIT was considered to be the National Championship of College Basketball.
The Friars were led by Vinny Ernst and James Hadnot that season.
PC 1962-63 NIT Champions
The Friars won their second NIT Championship two years after the first one. Led by Ray Flynn, John Thompson Jr. and Vinnie Ernst, the Friars won 15 straight games to claim the title.
Providence finished the season with a 24-4 record.
URI Men's Sailing 1965
The URI Rams won their first small boat National Championship in 1965.
The Rams were led by Art Payne and Peter Greene, both of whom were from Rhode Island.
Photo courtesy of urisailing.org
URI Men's Sailing 1975
The URI Rams won their second small boat National Championship and also won the National team race that season.
Photo courtesy of urisailing.org
URI Men's Sailing 1977
The URI men's sailing team won the National Championship in small boat sailing in 1977.
The team was led by two time all Americans Gary Knapp and Ed Adams.
Photo Courtesy of urisailing.org
Brown Men's Crew '93
The Brown Bears won the triple-crown, winning the Eastern Sprints, the IRA and the National Championship.
Brown Men's Crew '94
The Bears repeated their triple-crown performance from the season before, once again winning the Eastern Sprints, the IRA and the National Championship.
The Bears went undefeated on the season.
Photo Courtesy of brownbears.com
Brown Men's Crew '95
Coach Scott Roop leads the Bears to a third straight IRA and National Championship.
Photo courtesy of Brownbears.com
PC Women's Cross Country
The 1995 Providence Friars won the programs first NCAA title. On the way, PC won their first BIG EAST and ECAC Championships.
Head Coach Ray Treacy was named NCAA Division I Women's National Coach of the Year, BIG EAST Men's and Women's Coach of the Year, Rhode Island Words Unlimited Women's Coach of the Year and NCAA District I Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year.
Brown Women's Crew '96
Under head coach John Murphy, the Brown women's crew team won the 1996 eastern Sprints, the IRA's and the Collegiate National Championship.
The team became the first women's crew to win the "Triple Crown" of collegiate racing.
Photo courtesy of Brownbears.com
Brown Women's Crew '97
Brown's varsity four team wins the first NCAA Championship by defeating the University of Washington on Lake Natoma in California.
The Bears finished third as a team overall.
Brown Women's Sailing '98
The Brown Women's Sailing Team won the College Sailing Women's National Championship in 1998.
The championships were held at Tulane University in New Orleans Louisiana.
Brown Women's Crew '99
Brown women's crew won the first NCAA Division I Championship in Brown University History by defeating the University of Virginia by a three-second margin at lake Natoma in California.
Brown also won the Eastern Sprint Championship and the Ivy Championship, setting a new course record in the process.
Photo courtesy of Brownbears.com
Brown Women's Crew 2000
Brown repeated as national Champions in 2000, beating the University of Washington by 3.9 seconds four points.
In addition, Brown's varsity and second varsity won the Eastern Sprint Championship and the IVY league Championship.
Both teams went undefeated on the season.
Brown Women's Crew '02
The Bears won their third National title in four years defeating the defending champion Washington by four points in Indianapolis.
Brown was the only school to qualify all of it's crew for the grand finals.
The Bears went undefeated during the regular season.
Brown Women's Crew '04
Brown won thier fourth title in six years on Lake Natoma in California.
The win made Brown the winningest program in NCAA Championship history.
Brown Women's Crew '07
Brown won their fifth National Championship in 2007 at Melton Hill Lake in Tennessee.
The Bears beat Ohio State and Yale who came in second and third place respectively.
Photo courtesy of taxref/flickr
Brown Women's Crew '08
The Bears won their sixth National Championship on Lake Natoma in California.
The Bears beat Washington by eight points and third place Cal by 14 points to repeat as champions for the first time since 1999-2000.
URI Women's Sailing 2011
The URI Women won the programs first National Championship in small boat sailing in the 79 year history of the program and hoisted the Gerald C. Miller Memorial Trophy at the Sperry Top-Sider/Intercollegiate Sailing Association Women’s National Championship.
The Rams won the title as a club team and were one of two club teams competing for the title. The other club team was Western Washington, who finished 17.
Photo courtesy of uri.edu
Brown Women's Crew 2011
The Bears won their seventh NCAA National Championship in 15 years under head coach John Murphy.
The Bears racked up 45 points in the final race and beat Stanford by five seconds.
The title was their first since 2008.
Photo courtesy of brownbears.com
PC Women's Cross Country
The Providence College Women's Cross Country team won the 2013 National Championship with 141 points.
Emily Sisson was the Friars top finisher as she finished in seventh place at Wabash Valley Family Sports Center.
This was Providence's first title win since 1995.
PC Hockey 2015
The Providence College Friars won the 2015 NCAA Ice Hockey National Championship, defeating Boston University 4-3 at the TD Garden.
The Championship is the first in the program's history and only the third NCAA National Title in Providence College History.
PC goatender Jon Gillies was named Most Outstanding Player.
