If Maryland and Stony Brook win their conference tournaments this weekend, figuring out who should be the No. 1 seed for the NCAA Division I women’s lacrosse tournament won’t be easy.

The Terps, the Seawolves and North Carolina, which has already won the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, could each have an argument to claim the top spot if the Terps win the Big Ten tournament and the Seawolves win in the America East.

North Carolina’s RPI soared after its win over previously undefeated Boston College in the ACC final, but the Tar Heels (15-3) have three losses.

Defending national champion Maryland’s RPI is second and the Terps are 16-1 with 14 straight wins, but that one loss was to North Carolina.

Stony Brook (17-0) is the only undefeated team in Division I, but its RPI is sixth. While the Seawolves have been ranked No. 1 in the polls for the past 10 weeks, polls don’t play into the criteria for selection.

“Really the NCAA [selection committee] doesn’t stray too far from their RPI rankings,” said Halley Quillinan Griggs, women’s editor for Inside Lacrosse, “but there’s a number of criteria also being take into consideration. One of them is head-to-head, so I think North Carolina’s win over Maryland could certainly play a factor. It’s just very interesting to see what the committee takes into consideration. North Carolina certainly has more losses than Maryland. None of them are bad losses though.”

The selection committee’s decision will be announced along with the rest of the 27-team bracket Sunday at 9 p.m. on NCAA.com.

All-conference women: Maryland landed six players on the All-Big Ten team — Megan Whittle (McDonogh), Jen Giles (Mount Hebron), Caroline Steele (Severn), Julia Braig (St. Paul’s), Lizzie Colson (Manchester Valley) and Grace Griffin (Liberty).

Three Johns Hopkins players also made the team: Shelby Harrison (St. Mary’s), Shannon Fitzgerald and Jeanne Kachris.

Penn State’s Madison Carter (South River) and Kayla Brisolari (Archbishop Spalding) were the only other locals on the team.

In the Patriot League, Loyola Maryland’s Jen Adams was selected Coach of the Year for the fourth time in five years.

The Greyhounds also won three of the four major player awards: Kristen Yanchoris (Century), Defensive Player of the Year; Hannah Powers, Attacker of the Year; and Livy Rosenzweig, Rookie of the Year.

Navy’s Jenna Collins (River Hill) was named Midfielder of the Year.

Also named to the first team: Taylor VanThof and Kady Glynn, Loyola; and Blake Smith (Notre Dame Prep), Julia Collins (River Hill) and Kelly Larkin, Navy.

In the Colonial Athletic Association, Towson’s Olivia Conti shared Defensive Player of the Year honors while Tianna Wallpher (Mount Hebron), Natalie Sulmonte, Emily Gillingham and Kiley Keating were named to the first team. Elon’s Stephanie Asher (Glenelg) also made the first team.

James Madison’s Shelley Klaes-Bawcombe (Loch Raven) was named Coach of the Year.

In the Northeast Conference, Mount St. Mary’s goalie Jillian Petito was named the Defensive Player of the Year and Lauren Schwarzmann (Century) was named Coach of the Year.

Salisbury men look forward to ‘opportunity’: Coach Jim Berkman won’t use the term “revenge” regarding the No. 7 Salisbury men’s lacrosse team’s Division III rematch with No. 2 York in Saturday’s Capital Athletic Conference tournament final. Instead, he called the chance to make amends for a 15-6 loss to the Spartans on March 24 “an opportunity.”

“Anytime you’re defeated or you make a mistake, you don’t say, ‘I’ve got to get revenge,’ ” Berkman said. “You learn from that mistake, and you look forward to an opportunity, and we’ve always been pretty opportunistic around here.”

The 12-time reigning Division III national champion Sea Gulls (15-3) will get back senior midfielder Garrett Reynolds (29 goals, three assists), who sat out Tuesday’s 14-3 rout of Christopher Newport (14-4) because of a concussion. A win Saturday would likely help Salisbury leapfrog York (17-1) to No. 2 in the South Region rankings.

Loyola Maryland men focused on exams: Between the time the No. 6 Greyhounds put the finishing touch on a 15-8 victory over Lehigh in Sunday’s Patriot League tournament final and their NCAA tournament first-round game on either May 12 or 13, they could have as many as 14 days without a game. But as coach Charley Toomey pointed out, the players will make good use of the extra time with final exams on the schedule.

“It’s nice because this week, you can focus on you,” he said. “The following week, we’ll get right back into focusing on the opponent. So there are some things we can fix. We’ll watch some film coming out of the Patriot League tournament. But we want to be playing our best lacrosse and we want to be fresh in two weeks.”

Maryland’s Kelly playing through pain: Senior midfielder Connor Kelly finished the No. 2 Terps’ 8-7 triple-overtime win against No. 7 Johns Hopkins on Saturday despite taking a stick to the left side of his neck that left a large red welt and another stick to his right knee. Kelly did not score a goal on 13 shots and had only one assist, but coach John Tillman said Kelly will be OK.

“As I told him, ‘You’re a guy that’s a marked man and you’re going to get a lot of attention, and you’ve got to be able to handle that,’” he said. “Part of that is making good decisions with the ball and maybe not holding the ball quite as long and maybe doing damage in some other ways. It is a physical game, and we play physically ourselves. So I think that’s part of his process, to kind of figure out, ‘OK, can I do as much and help the team out with and without the ball?’ ”

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