NCAA Lacrosse Playoffs
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I attended Penn vs Army at Franklin Field today. That Quaker team is for real. They have a fantastic FOGO and their defense is excellent. I will most definitely be going to the Final Four at the Linc if they make it there. Also Hobbs can and should take a page out of Penn's book... they had the student section at Franklin Field in the first 4 or 5 rows.
Unfortunately that is the Fogo that was all set to come here until UPenn got involved
Damn. Its possible we would've been playing Army at home instead of Penn yesterday if that came to fruition.
Penn St. 23 - UMBC 7 after 3. Cornell and about 6 other teams, including RU, think about the AQ system and shake their collective heads.
AQ system is a farce. There's at least 5 teams that are sitting at home that would've put up a better fight vs PSU than a sub .500 UMBC team.
Do we have feedback on what swayed him to Penn? Watching Woodall is giving me fogo envy.
I think Hopkins will be tough tonight. Maybe beating us Turtles back to back wasn't the greatest thing ever, but after that they gave Penn State (the best team by a long shot this year) a hell of a game last time out.
It is a shame that this entire tournament is televised on the ACC Network. Gotta at least give them credit for not even trying to hide their bias
Lost the game when they slowed it down with little time left at the end of the game. Told my wife they're going to loose this. Had their guy hold the ball till late & rolled the ball into the corner with 23 sec's left. Actually not sure if they rolled it into the corner or their guy held it until the shot clock was winding down & tried to get a shot off. Either way there were 23 secs left & the rest is history. Should have played their normal game & offense. Maryland scores with 3 secs left. Tie game &, in actuality, game over.
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I’d rather think about the 1 goal loss the week before.
Let’s look in the bright side. At least they were ranked number 1. Imagine getting beat 8-1 by an unranked Elon squad of all teams like Donigan did. Holy embarrassment.
Duke, who lost to High Point and their conference title game, seeded higher than Penn, who won their conference and who's only losses were to tournament teams. Thus both Duke and Virginia got cupcake 1st rd. games and the Ivies played each other in the quarterfinals.
Actually, both the NCAA AND the Baltimore Mafia love it.
Actually, the ratings difference between what they have and a Penn St-Yale, Virginia-Penn semi would be de minimus.
Yale-----who lost to Nova :)-----dominates PSU start to finish to head to the Final vs UVA.
IMO will be a ton closer than yesterdays game and UVA can beat them.
It doesn't matter in a tourney how you were playing 3 months ago what matters is how you're playing now.
If what you were doing 3 months ago doesn't matter, why are you bringing up Yale's February game with Nova?
Because he loves Catholic schools and gets as many digs in at non Catholic schools as he can
Based on what we saw yesterday, Yale is playing much better now.
While the Uva game was interesting because it was close, that was not high level lacrosse. Yale looked much better. As did Penn St.
If Yale gets the ball like they did against Penn St, it’s a lock.
I’m assuming Uva can play better than that. That was not championship material.
Their goalie better have the best day of his life.
Their goalie better have the best day of his life.
I also brought up the ACC conference championship game, which Duke lost. On the other hand Penn won their championship game and hadn't lost a game since February. Yet they were seeded lower.
Well they've got a hot goalie, Irlan is less than 100% and their overall defense is playing much better than Saturday. It's going to be an interesting 2nd half.
Gotta give it to Uva- they were more physical and shot much better today. Their goalie was great. The two things they needed to do. They looked much more rested. Yale looked tired and slow. Gotta think the Penn St game and short rest didn’t help.
Uva is building another monster. Their recruiting, as usual, has been off the charts.
Uva is building another monster. Their recruiting, as usual, has been off the charts.
