The championship game was played at Homewood Field on the campus of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, featuring a crowd of 10,875 fans.

Eight NCAA Division I college men's lacrosse teams met in the postseason single-elimination tournament to decide the national championship.

The Terps’ season concluded with a five-game winning streak including victories over Johns Hopkins, Hofstra, Washington & Lee and Navy.

DeSimone would later transfer to Johns Hopkins helping lead the Blue Jays to the 1978 national title and the 1977 finals.

Jack Emmer's Washington and Lee team avenged a loss in the prior year's tournament with an upset of the top-ranked but second seeded Johns Hopkins in the quarterfinals.