Albany & UMBC's first round action of the 2007 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship can be seen live on ESPNU today.
The Great Danes were awarded the No. 5 seed and will host Loyola (Md.) at 2:30 p.m. at John Fallon Field, while UMBC will travel to College Park, Md. to take on No. 7 Maryland at 7:30 p.m. Both contests will be broadcast live on ESPNU.For the first time in league history an America East team will host
a game in the national tournament. It also marks the fourth time in
conference history that two teams have made the NCAA tourney in the
same season, the first since 2001.
If Albany advances to the quarterfinals, then the Great Danes would
take on the winner of the Towson-Cornell contest in Princeton, N.J.
With a win, the Retrievers would face the winner of the
Delaware-Virginia game at Navy. The 2007 Men's Lacrosse Final Four
takes place at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Md., with UMBC
serving as a co-host for the event.