As NBC Triple Crown announcer Larry Collmus says at near the end of every horse race, “down the stretch they come!” We’re at the home stretch of the NCAA Lacrosse season with Memorial Day Weekend finally here. Not only do we have Division 1 semifinals and the championship game, but we’ll also have the Division 2 and 3 Championship games as well. Here’s one player from each participating team to…
At the beginning of the season, many people had Denver and Notre Dame in Philadelphia for Championship weekend. But Maryland? Some people may have picked them, but the absence of Goran Murray, the availability of Matt Rambo, and the uncertainty in net were big question marks. Turns out that the defense has been the strength of the Terps all year, which has them against….Johns Hopkins. Oh the Blue Jays, a…
It’s been a repeated saying for the past few years: North Carolina looks like a team that can make it to Championship Weekend, but then falls short. And it happened yet again on Sunday on the campus of the Naval Academy, as Maryland dominated North Carolina 14-7. Entering the day, North Carolina had one of the best offenses in the entire country, which included attackmen Jimmy Bitter and Joey Sankey….
It’s the most storied rivalry in all of college lacrosse. It’s the Michigan-Ohio State or the Duke-UNC of its sport. It’s none other than Johns Hopkins-Syracuse, the two winningest programs in the history of college lacrosse. Tomorrow at Navy Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, another chapter will be written into the already huge book between the two teams. We’ll begin with what will be considered the “road” team due to…
By the end of the afternoon on Sunday, we should know the four teams moving on Championship Weekend in Philadelphia for the semifinals. Three of these four matchups will be rematches from earlier in the season, while Albany-Notre Dame will be a rematch from last year’s quarterfinals. These should end up to be four of the best games of the lacrosse season, as Albany, Denver, Johns Hopkins, and North Carolina…
The game started out with shades of last year’s upset loss to Bryant, as the Red Foxes of Marist scored the game’s first goal to take an early lead. That would be their only lead of the night. Syracuse scored 10 unanswered there after to cruise to a 20-8 victory in a humid Carrier Dome. The Orange will play Johns Hopkins, a 19-7 victor over Virginia earlier in the day,…
In a Saturday filled with a ton of excitement, controversy, big goalies running coast-to-coast scoring and setting Twitter ablaze, and upsets, there’s only one thing to follow that up: more excitement! The first half of the first round saw Albany destroy Cornell, Maryland edge out Yale with controversy, Notre Dame coming back against Towson, and Ohio State upsetting Duke. We have four more games on tap today, and here they…
The past couple of weeks in the college lacrosse world have been dominated by conference tournament and NCAA tournaments in all three divisions of college lacrosse. It’s a great time in the season to watch the best teams and the best players try to fight it out for bragging rights on Memorial Day weekend in Philadelphia. But there’s been one story that hasn’t been discussed a lot this week. On…
We’re less than two days until the start of the NCAA First Round, which is by far the best weekend for Division 1 lacrosse. There’s a lot of rematches, looking like a lot of offensive explosions, and a little mix of some defense as well. All of these games will be televised on ESPNU SATURDAY Noon: Albany vs. #8 Cornell By the end of Saturday to the beginning of Sunday,…
The NCAA Tournament got underway Wednesday night with two play-in games. MAAC champion Marist won their first ever NCAA Tournament game against NEC champion Bryant 10-6. The Red Foxes will travel to the Carrier Dome to take on Syracuse Sunday at 7:30 PM. In the other play-in game, Towson answered a 5-0 High Point run with eight consecutive goals to defeat the Panthers 10-8. The Tigers will travel to take…