The 2012 Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) Tournament has its four-team field set two weeks before the schools travel to the Denver Pioneers' Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium from May 2-4. Well, three teams will travel to the stadium, as the Denver Pioneers will be the No. 4 team in the field. The Pioneers went 3-3 in ECAC play, two wins better than Air Force and Hobart.
The Pioneers have drawn the No. 1 Loyola (Md.) Greyhounds, whom they lost to earlier in the season, 12-9. Fairfield and Ohio State, both 4-1 and both victorious over the Pioneers this season, have taken seeds No. 2 and No. 3 for the other matchup.
The Pioneers hosted the inaugural ECAC Tournament in 2011, which resulted in Denver winning 11-9 over Fairfield. Can the underdog Pioneers make it two in a row?
Here are the current standings:
| School | ECAC | Overall |
| Loyola (Md.) | 6-0 | 12-0 |
| Fairfield | 4-1 | 11-2 |
| Ohio St. | 4-1 | 7-6 |
| Denver | 3-3 | 7-5 |
| Air Force | 1-4 | 6-6 |
| Hobart | 1-4 | 3-9 |
| Michigan | 0-0 | 1-12 |
| Bellarmine | 0-6 | 4-7 |
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