INDIANAPOLIS – For the second time in three seasons, Stony Brook will play in the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championship when it faces second-seeded Johns Hopkins in Baltimore on Sunday, May 13 at 3 p.m. The game will be nationally televised on ESPNU. The Seawolves learned their NCAA Tournament fate on Sunday evening during the NCAA selection show on ESPNU.  

Stony Brook collected the America East’s automatic bid with its 14-8 win over Albany in the conference championship game on Saturday afternoon. Sean Brady made 11 saves for the Seawolves against the Danes and 19 total in the tournament to earn Most Outstanding Player honors. First-team all-conference midfielder Jeff Tundo paced the Stony Brook offense with four goals and an assist.

The Seawolves, led by America East Coach of the Year Jim Nagle, boast five first-team all-conference performers and the league’s Rookie of the Year, Mike Rooney. The freshman earned five Rookie of the Week awards during the regular season and is the top freshman goal scorer in the nation. Brady, meanwhile, anchors a defense that ranked first in the league in goals against average giving up only 9.33 per contest.

Johns Hopkins picked up the tournament’s No. 2 overall seed after an 11-3 regular season including a win against the overall No. 1 seed, Loyola.  Hopkins makes its 41^st consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament and has defeated two America East squads this season (UMBC, Albany).

Stony Brook advanced to the NCAA quarterfinal round in 2010 with a first-round win over Denver. Albany and UMBC are the only other America East schools to reach that stage and both accomplished the feat in 2007.

All eight first round matchups face-off May 12 or May 13 and all will be televised on the ESPN family of networks. The quarterfinals will be held the following weekend while the Final Four will start on May 26 at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass.