Division I Men's Golf Championships

Dates and sites: Three regionals will be May 19-21 at Notre Dame, Stanford and St. Simons Island, Georgia (Southeastern Conference, host). The finals are June 1-4 at Caves Valley Golf Course in Baltimore (Loyola College, host).

Field: Thirty teams advance from regional competition -- along with the top six individuals from teams not advancing from the regionals -- to make up the 156-competitor field. The field will be cut to the top 15 teams and six individuals after 54 holes.

2004 team champion: California.

2004 medalist: Ryan Moore, UNLV.

Top team contenders: Oklahoma State, Georgia Tech, Georgia, UNLV, New Mexico, Florida, Arizona State, Brigham Young, Auburn and Duke were the top 10 teams in a recent coaches poll.

Championships notes: UNLV's Ryan Moore returns to defend his six-shot victory in last year's championships. Moore ran away from the field with a 64-66 finish and a 13-under-par total 267. He was ranked first in scoring average through April 20. Among other leaders in that category were Spencer Levin of New Mexico, Rhys Davies of East Tennessee State, Jeff Overton of Indiana and Michael Putnam of Pepperdine. Putnam placed fourth last year, while Overton tied for 20th. Moore's March 20 win in the Hall of Fame Invitational made him the winningest golfer in UNLV history ... Oklahoma State placed three golfers in the top 10 and won the team title by two strokes over New Mexico at the Texas A&M Invitational April 17. The win gave the top-ranked Cowboys their fifth victory this year and their third of the spring season. Individually, New Mexico's Levin shared medalist honors. The Cowboys' Tyler Leon posted his third top-five finish of the season ... Duke won the Atlantic Coast Conference championship for the first time since 1966. Junior Ryan Blaum became the school's first league champion since Matt Krauss in 1999 ... Kentucky claimed its first SEC championship with a three-round total of 875, two shots better than second-place Auburn.

Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship

Dates and sites: First-round games are May 14 or 15 at campus sites. Quarterfinal games are May 21 at Johns Hopkins and May 22 at Princeton. The semifinals and final will be May 28 and 30 in Philadelphia.

Field: Sixteen teams. Six conferences receive automatic bids. The remaining teams are selected at large.

Selection date: May 8.

2004 champion: Syracuse.

Top contenders: The top teams according to the latest USILA poll are Johns Hopkins, Duke, Virginia, Cornell and Navy.

Championship notes: Johns Hopkins has won this event seven times, most recently in 1987 ... Duke finished the 2005 regular season with only one loss, a vast improvement over the 2004 squad, which went 5-8 with a young team. Coach Mike Pressler was playing 17 freshmen and sophomores during the 2004 season, and he expects that experience to pay off in this year's tournament ... Virginia also finished 5-8 in 2004, the Cavaliers' first losing season in 17 years. The Cavaliers returned 27 lettermen, including eight starters, for the 2005 season ... Cornell has won three national championships in men's lacrosse, including its first in 1971. The Big Red also won in 1976 and 1977.

Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship

Dates and sites: First-round and quarterfinal games are May 12 and 15 at campus sites. The semifinals and final will be May 20 and 22 at Navy.

Field: Sixteen teams. Eight conferences receive automatic bids and eight teams are selected at large.

Selection date: May 8.

2004 champion: Virginia.

Top contenders: The top teams according to the latest IWLCA poll are Northwestern, Dartmouth, Duke, Princeton and Boston U.

Championship notes: Northwestern remained undefeated through April 24. Dartmouth was undefeated until April 27, when the Big Green lost to Boston U. by one goal ... The Duke women are hoping to win the school's first national championship in women's lacrosse, after reaching the semifinals in 1999 and the quarterfinals in 2001 ... Boston U. improved upon its 9-10 record in 2004 with a 13-1 record through April 27, including a victory over Dartmouth for the first time in school history ... The Princeton women spent 10 days touring Australia in December 2004, playing four games against Australian teams during their trip. The Tigers have made it to the semifinals in each of the past five years.

Division I Softball Championship

Dates and sites: Regional play takes place on campus sites May 20-22. Super regionals will be on campus sites May 27-28. The Women's College World Series will be at the ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City June 2-8.

Field: Sixty-four teams.

Selection date: May 15.

2004 champion: UCLA.

Top contenders: Michigan, Arizona, California, Texas A&M, Stanford, Texas, Oregon State, Baylor.

Championship notes: Eleven of the last 14 Women's College World Series finals have featured an all-Pacific-10 Conference matchup. Last year, UCLA defeated California for the national title ... Michigan pitcher Jennie Ritter suffered her first loss since the 2004 College World Series on April 22 ... Arizona has been ranked in the National Fastpitch Coaches Association/USA Today Poll since 1989 ... As of April 29, California was 24-0 when scoring five or more runs in a game ... As of April 29, Texas A&M led the nation in team batting average (.343) ... Oregon State reached its highest ranking (No. 7) in the NFCA/USA Today Poll on April 26 ... Heading into games on April 30, Baylor already had set program single-season records of 48 home runs and 327 runs scored.

Division I Men's Tennis Championships

Dates and sites: First- and second-round matches will be May 13-15 at sites to be determined. The finals are at Texas A&M, with the team championship to be decided May 21-24 and the singles and doubles titles to be decided May 25-30.

Field: Sixty-four teams. Thirty-one conferences receive automatic bids and the remaining 33 teams are selected at large. For the individual championship, the bracket will consist of 64 singles players and 32 doubles teams in a single-elimination tournament.

Selection date: May 4 for team selection; May 5 for singles and doubles selections.

2004 champions: Baylor won the team competition, Benjamin Becker of Baylor won the singles title, and KC Corkery and Sam Warburg of Stanford won the doubles title.

Top team contenders: The latest poll from College Tennis Online ranked Baylor, Virginia, Mississippi, Florida and Illinois as the top five teams in the country.

Championships notes: Baylor opened the season at the top of the ITA poll and has stayed there. The Bears' Benedikt Dorsch was the second-ranked singles player in the country in the most recent ITA poll, teammate Benjamin Becker was ranked 18th and Lars Poerschke, a Baylor freshman, was 43rd ... . Seven SEC institutions are ranked in the top 25 ... Illinois has won 83 consecutive regular-season Big Ten matches, making 2005 its eighth consecutive undefeated regular season and ninth straight Big Ten title. Illinois has not lost any regular-season conference matches since 1997.

Division I Women's Tennis Championships

Dates and sites: First-and second-round matches are May 13-15 at sites to be determined. The finals are at Georgia, with the team championship to be decided May 19-22, and the singles and doubles titles to be decided May 23-28.

Field: Sixty-four teams. Thirty-one conferences receive automatic bids and the remaining 33 teams are selected at large. For the individual championships, the bracket will consist of 64 singles players and 32 doubles teams in a single-elimination tournament.

Selection date: May 4 for the team selection; May 5 for the singles and doubles selection.

2004 champions: Stanford won the team championship. Amber Liu of Stanford won the singles title. Daniela Bercek and Lauren Fisher of UCLA won the doubles crown.

Top team contenders: The latest poll from College Tennis Online ranked Stanford, Florida, Kentucky, Georgia Tech and Northwestern as the top teams.

Championships notes: Stanford's victory in 2004 continued the tradition of either the Cardinal or Florida winning the event every year since 1996 with the exception of 2000 when Georgia took the crown. The Cardinal remained undefeated through April 28 ... Florida has become a powerhouse in women's tennis, winning 20 of 25 SEC championships and 13 of 17 SEC tournament titles, as well as four team NCAA championships. The Gators have appeared in 22 of 23 NCAA tournaments ... Florida faced a tough SEC conference challenge from third-ranked Kentucky. The Wildcats' 2004 season was impressive despite a heavy reliance on freshmen due to several injured veterans ... Georgia Tech's No. 4 ranking matches the school's 2003 volleyball team for the highest for any women's sports squad in school history. The team also won the 2005 ACC championship, the first in women's tennis at the institution.