Brown competes in the Ivy League and plays its home games at Stevenson-Pincince Field in Providence, Rhode Island.

The lacrosse program resumed play in 1961 under head coach Cliff Stevenson.

Since 1961, Brown has won 10 Ivy League championships (five outright titles, five shared) and has made 14 NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship tournament appearances, including nine NCAA Quarterfinal appearances.

Brown has also won numerous Ivy League awards since All-Ivy teams were first selected in 1957.

Since the award's inception in 1974, ten Brown Bears have been named Ivy League Player of the Year and four Bears have been named Men's Lacrosse Ivy League Rookie of the Year since the Rookie award was established in 1981.