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Maryland accumulated plenty of style points throughout the first 17 games of the season.

There weren’t many for the Terrapins last Monday — or any, really, especially in the last 20 minutes of the national title game — but it hardly matters.

Maryland’s 9-7 defeat of Cornell cements the Terps as an unbeaten champion — just the 11th in Division I men’s lacrosse history. And it also means they finish the year where they’ve been since March — as the top team in the Nike/USA Lacrosse Division I Men’s Top 20.

There was movement below the top line and some slotting that doesn’t match up with how far programs advanced in the postseason. Virginia remains a top-four team despite a quarterfinal loss; its great sin was getting bracketed with Maryland a round or two early.

Georgetown sits at No. 6 despite its first-round ouster. The Hoyas’ season-long consistency carries some weight despite their 10-9 loss to Delaware.

And Notre Dame, not even invited to the tournament, yields ground to a pair of final four teams but still checks in at No. 8. The Fighting Irish will carry a six-game winning streak into next season — and how many victories it could have tacked onto that run in May will remain the great unknown of the just-concluded postseason.

The full rundown to close out the season:

NIKE/USA LACROSSE
DIVISION I MEN’S TOP 20

 
June 6, 2022
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1

Maryland

18-0

1

Season complete

2

Cornell

14-5

12

Season complete

3

Virginia

12-4

3

Season complete

4

Princeton

11-5

8

Season complete

5

Rutgers

15-5

4

Season complete

6

Georgetown

15-2

2

Season complete

7

Penn

11-5

5

Season complete

8

Notre Dame

8-4

6

Season complete

Yale

12-5

7

Season complete

10

Brown

10-6

9

Season complete

11

Ohio State

10-6

10

Season complete

12

Richmond

11-5

14

Season complete

13

Jacksonville

14-3

11

Season complete

14

Duke

11-6

13

Season complete

15

Delaware

13-6

NR

Season complete

16

Boston U

12-5

15

Season complete

17

Army

12-4

16

Season complete

18

Harvard

8-5

17

Season complete

19

North Carolina

8-6

18

Season complete

20

Saint Joseph's

14-4

20

Season complete

Also considered (alphabetical order): Denver (9-6), Lehigh (8-7), Loyola (8-8), Navy (9-6), Vermont (12-7), Villanova (9-6)

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