ACC Notes Package
2023 NCAA Tournament Bracket
2023 Statistics

GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – ACC Men's Lacrosse shifts into postseason mode this weekend as the 2023 NCAA Championship opens with first-round play at campus sites.

Three ACC teams earned NCAA Tournament bids, including the top three seeds: Duke (1), Virginia (2) and Notre Dame (3). This marks just the second time in tournament history that a conference earned the top three seeds in the field. The ACC also had the top three seeds in 2015 (No. 1 Notre Dame, No. 2 Syracuse and No. 3 UNC).

Virginia opens at noon Saturday at home against Richmond. Notre Dame follows with a 2:30 p.m. Saturday contest against Utah. Duke entertains Delaware at 5 p.m. Sunday. ESPNU will broadcast all eight first-round NCAA games on Saturday and Sunday.

Current ACC membership collectively owns 25 NCAA championships, including nine of the last 14 as well as 14 titles since 2000. ACC programs (at the time of the event) have won 17 NCAA titles.

Results/Upcoming Schedule
Saturday, May 6
No. 3/3 Notre Dame 18, at No. rv/18 North Carolina 9

Sunday, May 7
No. 1/1 Duke 14, Merrimack 2
 (at Bethpage, N.Y.)

NCAA Tournament First Round
Saturday, May 13
Richmond at No. 2 Virginia | Noon | ESPNU
Utah at No. 3 Notre Dame | 2:30 p.m. | ESPNU

Sunday, May 14
Delaware at No. 1 Duke | 5 p.m. | ESPNU

NCAA Quarterfinals
Saturday, May 20 (Albany, N.Y.)
Richmond/UVa vs. Georgetown/Yale | TBA | ESPNU
Delaware/Duke vs. Cornell/Michigan | TBA | ESPNU

Sunday, May 21 (Annapolis, Md.)
Utah/ND vs Johns Hopkins/Bryant | TBA | ESPNU

All times Eastern

Noting ACC Men's Lacrosse
• Syracuse owns 10 NCAA titles (most of any NCAA program), while Virginia has won seven, UNC five and Duke three.
• At least one current ACC member has advanced to the national semifinals in 40 of the last 42 seasons. 
• The ACC boasts 73 appearances in Championship Weekend, while current membership has combined for 82 appearances.
• A current ACC school has played in the NCAA Championship game in 18 of the last 21 tournaments.
• ACC teams were 34-6 (85%) in non-conference play in the regular season, by far the best win percentage of any conference (Big Ten is second at 68.1%). 
• For the 13th straight week, an ACC team holds the No. 1 national ranking, as Duke reclaimed the No. 1 spot in both polls. It marks the Blue Devils' third week at No. 1 this year. In the 13-week stretch, UVa was No. 1 for six weeks, ND for four weeks and Duke for three weeks.
• In the final NCAA RPI, ACC teams held the top three spots and five of the top 25 with Duke (1), Notre Dame (2), Virginia (3), North Carolina (17) and Syracuse (22).
• Three of the five Tewaaraton Award finalists hail from the ACC: Duke's Brennan O'Neill, Notre Dame's Pat Kavanagh and Virginia's Connor Shellenberger. Eight ACC players were nominees for the Tewaaraton Award, also the most of any conference.  • Eight ACC players were chosen in the 2023 Premier Lacrosse League Draft, held May 9: UVa's Thomas McConvey (No. 8 overall), ND's Brian Tevlin (10), UVa's Xander Dickson (11), UNC's Connor Maher (13), UVa's Petey LaSalla (14), SU's Cole Kirst (18), Duke's Garrett Leadmon (22), ND's Chris Fake (24).
• The ACC features four of the nation's top 10 active career goal scorers: UVa's Thomas McConvey (4th, 153) and Payton Cormier (8th, 150), Duke's Dyson Williams and Duke's Brennan O'Neill (T10th, 142).
• Four ACC players are among the top five in the nation's active career assists leaders: UVa's Connor Shellenberger (1st, 129), ND's Pat Kavanagh (2nd, 128), Duke's Tommy Schelling and UNC's Logan McGovern (T7th, 98). 
• ACC teams comprise five of the top 13 scoring offenses in the nation: Virginia (1st, 17.6), Notre Dame (3rd, 15.8), Duke (4th, 15.3), North Carolina (8th, 14.6) and Syracuse (13th, 14.3).
• ACC teams boast three of the top four scoring margins in the nation: ND (1st, 6.0), Virginia (3rd, 5.4) and Duke (4th, 4.7).
• Notre Dame (6th, 9.9) and Duke (16th, 10.7) also rank among the teams nationally in scoring defense.
• Notre Dame's Pat Kavanagh and UVa's Connor Shellenberger rank first and second nationally in assists per game, respectively, at 3.75 and 3.31.
• Five ACC players rank among the top 20 players nationally in goals per game: UVa's Xander Dickson (3rd, 4.0) and Payton Cormier (5th, 3.6), Duke's Dyson Williams (7th, 3.4), ND's Chris Kavanagh (12th, 3.2) and Duke's Brennan O'Neill (19th, 2.9).
• ND goalie Liam Entenmann ranks sixth in the nation in goals-against average (9.7), while Duke's William Helm is 17th (10.7).
• Four ACC coaches rank among the top 10 in career wins among active coaches, most of any conference: Duke's John Danowski (first, 456), ND's Kevin Corrigan (third, 341), UNC's Joe Breschi (fifth, 244) and Virginia's Lars Tiffany (ninth, 191).
• Danowski owns the most wins of any active Division I head coach (456) and is third all-time.
• The ACC returns two previous Tewaaraton finalists: Virginia's Connor Shellenberger (2022) and Notre Dame's Pat Kavanagh (2021).
• Virginia made its fourth straight NCAA Tournament appearance last season, reaching the quarterfinals.