Penn is the champion of the Ivy League during a season in which any of the four teams that made the Ivy League tournament had a legitimate chance. 

Goalie Patrick Burkinshaw was lights out again, making 16 saves in a 16-9 win over Yale after finishing with 20 in Penn’s semifinal win over top-seeded Brown. The Virginia transfer’s 36 saves are a new Ivy League tournament record. He is the USA Lacrosse Magazine Division I Men’s Player of the Week for his insane weekend.

The Quakers scored two goals before halftime and five unanswered goals to start the third quarter to break open the game after it was tied at 4. The Bulldogs never recovered from the 7-0 run. Penn punctuated the third quarter with Ben Smith’s buzzer-beater following a pair of Burkinshaw saves in the final minute.

What a sequence — Burkinshaw with two saves and Gergar-to-Smith at the buzzer and it’s all @PennMensLax in this @IvyLeague final (@ESPNU) pic.twitter.com/19EwA62kZI

— USA Lacrosse Magazine (@USALacrosseMag) May 8, 2022

PREVIOUS WINNERS

• Feb. 8: Griffin McGinley, Mount St. Mary’s

• Feb. 15: Patrick Daly, Villanova

• Feb. 22: Jack Myers, Ohio State

• March 1: Aleric Fyock, Penn State

• March 8: Chris Gray, North Carolina

• March 15: Roy Meyer, Boston U

• March 22: Chris Brown, Princeton

• March 29: Conor Calderone, Boston U

• April 5: Jake Taylor, Notre Dame

• April 12: Brett Dobson, St. Bonaventure

• April 19: Mike Adler, Duke

• April 26: Connor Theriault, Brown

• May 3: Pat Kavanagh, Notre Dame