National Championship Game to be Played Monday, May 28, at 1 p.m. on ESPN & ESPN3
ESPN has covered 29 NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championships since 1980 and 2012 marks the 18th consecutive year of televising the National Semifinals and Championship Game.
- Eamon McAnaney will be calling his first-ever championship weekend games as the play-by-play announcer
- Quint Kessenich will join McAnaney in the booth and sideline analyst Paul Carcaterra is a newcomer on the field for the biggest weekend of the season
- Host Anish Shroff and analyst Mark Dixon will cover the National Semifinals from ESPNU’s Charlotte, N.C. headquarters
- The duo will be on site in Foxborough for the National Championship on Memorial Day with pregame and halftime reports
- In addition, Shroff and Dixon will anchor the NCAA Lacrosse Championship Post Game Show on ESPNU and ESPN3, immediately following the title game, which will include game reaction, postgame celebration, trophy presentation and net cutting
- Bill Tierney, head coach at Denver and six-time NCAA Championship coach at Princeton, will join Shroff and Dixon in studio for the coverage of the semifinals
- A series of bumps and full-length teases that combine Native American narrative with current day life from the Onondaga Nation in upstate New York
- Microphones will be worn by all three game officials during the semifinals and championship, providing on-field dialogue throughout the telecast with periodic switches to each official
- The telecast will use nine cameras, plus the SkyCam and Super Slo Motion camera, which will allow viewers to experience a visually enhanced presentation
- All three games from Gillette Stadium simulcast on ESPN3
- Full coverage of the postgame celebration, trophy presentation and the net cutting on Monday on ESPN3
- Fans who receive ESPN’s linear networks as part of their video subscription via Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks, Verizon FiOS TV or Comcast Xfinity will also have access to WatchESPN for live coverage online at WatchESPN.com and through the WatchESPN app on smartphones and tablets, in addition to ESPN3’s multi-screen offering
- ESPNBoston.com will cover all the weekend’s action from Gillette Stadium
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- The semifinal games will be shown live on ESPN PacRim, ESPN2 Australia and ESPN2 Caribbean, and next day delay on ESPN America
- The title game will air live on ESPN America, ESPN PacRim and ESPN2 Caribbean
- Same day/next day airs for the championship game will be available on ESPN Africa, ESPN2 Australia, ESPN Israel, ESPN Middle East, ESPN Brazil HD and ESPN Latin America
ESPN’s Coverage of the NCAA Division I Men’s Lacrosse Championship Presented by Enterprise Rent-A-Car (Subject to change)
| Date | Time (ET) | Game/Commentators | Network(s) |
| Sat, May 26 | 2:30 p.m. | Semifinal #1: No. 4 Notre Dame vs. No. 1 Loyola (Md.) (Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, Mass.) Eamon McAnaney, Quint Kessenich & Paul Carcaterra |
ESPN2 / ESPN3 |
| 5 p.m. | Semifinal #2: Maryland vs. No. 3 Duke (Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, Mass.) Eamon McAnaney, Quint Kessenich & Paul Carcaterra |
ESPN2 / ESPN3 | |
| Mon, May 28 | 1 p.m. | National Championship: Semifinal winners (Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, Mass.) Eamon McAnaney, Quint Kessenich & Paul Carcaterra |
ESPN / ESPN3 |
| 3:30 p.m. | NCAA Lacrosse Championship Post Game Show Anish Shroff & Mark Dixon |
ESPNU |
ESPN’s NCAA Championship Coverage
- ESPN networks will air over 400 hours of 2012 NCAA Spring Championships coverage, increasing more than 30 hours from 2011
- As part of ESPN’s extended rights agreement with the NCAA, spring championship programming highlights seven sports over eight weeks: Men’s Lacrosse, Men’s Volleyball, Baseball and Softball
- For the first time, ESPN networks will also air the Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track & Field and Women’s Lacrosse Championships
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