2024 Division I Women's Lacrosse Conference Alignments

2025 figures to be a big year for college women’s lacrosse, with conference changes galore and three new programs — Charlotte, South Florida and Rhode Island — starting their NCAA journeys.

But the 2024 season is essentially a month away. USA Lacrosse Magazine released the USA Lacrosse Division I Women’s Preseason Top 20 on Wednesday, with reigning NCAA champion Northwestern checking in at No. 1.

Given the ever-changing conference landscape of Division I college athletics, next up in our preseason content is providing a lay of the land as we enter the spring.

AAC

Cincinnati
East Carolina
Florida
James Madison
Old Dominion
Temple
Vanderbilt

ACC

Boston College
Clemson
Duke
Louisville
Notre Dame
North Carolina
Pitt
Syracuse
Virginia
Virginia Tech

AMERICA EAST

Albany
Binghamton
Bryant
New Hampshire
UMass Lowell
UMBC
Vermont

ASUN

Coastal Carolina
Jacksonville
Kennesaw State
Liberty
Lindenwood
Queens
Stetson

ATLANTIC 10

Davidson
Duquesne
George Mason
George Washington
La Salle
Richmond
Saint Joseph’s
St. Bonaventure
UMass
VCU

BIG EAST

Butler
Denver
Georgetown
Marquette
UConn
Villanova
Xavier

BIG SOUTH

Campbell
Furman
Gardner-Webb
High Point
Longwood
Mercer
Presbyterian
Radford
Winthrop
Wofford

BIG TEN

Johns Hopkins
Maryland
Michigan
Northwestern
Ohio State
Penn State
Rutgers

CAA

Delaware
Drexel
Elon
Hofstra
Monmouth
Stony Brook
Towson
William & Mary

IVY LEAGUE

Brown
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Harvard
Penn
Princeton
Yale

MAAC

Canisius
Fairfield
Iona
Manhattan
Marist
Mount St. Mary’s
Niagara
Quinnipiac
Rider
Siena

MAC

Akron
Central Michigan
Detroit Mercy
Eastern Michigan
Kent State
Robert Morris
Youngstown State

NEC

Central Connecticut
Delaware State
Fairleigh Dickinson
Howard
Le Moyne
LIU
Merrimack
Sacred Heart
Saint Francis
Stonehill
Wagner

PAC-12

Arizona State
Cal
Colorado
Oregon
San Diego State
Stanford
UC Davis
USC

PATRIOT

American
Army
Boston U
Bucknell
Colgate
Holy Cross
Lafayette
Lehigh
Loyola
Navy