What an excellent weekend. While there were a lot of great moments including a nice hidden ball trick goal from Hopkins, for me, the best had to have been watching Albany’s Blaze Riorden make a very nice save before trucking down the field and putting away a goal. Although I picked Albany to win, I did not expect the Great Danes’ defense to show up like it did. If the…
Now that the first round of the NCAA has wrapped up, we can take a look at who moved on, who didn’t, and what to expect this weekend. There are going to be four excellent games as teams are fighting for those four coveted spots at Championship weekend in Philadelphia. Every one of these games is a can’t miss affair since every single one is a rematch of a game…
The start of the NCAA Tournament has been absolutely spectacular with upsets, tight games and every position on the field scoring. This evening, UNC will meet Colgate on Fetzer Field in Chapel Hill at 5:15pm in the first round of the tournament. Carolina comes in as the third seed, highest since being seeded number one in 1993 and Colgate enters unseeded but has the Patriot League title under their belt….
The Denver Pioneers are ranked third in the nation for their offensive productivity this season. They’re also the No. 4 seed for the tournament beginning this week. On the other side of the field forthis Sunday’s matchup at DU is Brown University, seeded No 13/10 and ranked tenth in the nation for offense. Many of the Pioneers’ opponents this season weren’t able to match the offensive productivity as mentioned. DU…
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…
In the Saturday nightcap of NCAA action, Duke played host to the Ohio State Buckeyes. Ohio State had played some teams tough this year, scored some big upsets, but also had some real head scratchers in the their record. When the dust settled though, Ohio State would leave North Carolina with the biggest upset of the tournament so far. The first quarter was unsettling slow. Duke had really turned…
The top seeded Notre Dame began their NCAA tournament by facing a Towson team who had to beat High Point earlier in the week just to make it to the first round. Notre Dame would wind up walking away with the 12-10 win, but it did not come easily. The first quarter in no way went to the expected script, although it started like it might. Notre Dame quickly…
Yale was one of the few teams all year to say they could top Maryland. As luck would have it, they met again today for the first round of the NCAA tournament. This time though, the Terps defense would prove to be too much for the Bulldogs, and the Ivy champs are headed back home early. The first quarter was about as fast as most expected. Neither of these…
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…
Anytime there’s a two-time defending champion, they will have a target on their backs. Even though Duke enters the NCAA tournament coming off a bit of a down-year for the Blue Devils, Duke should still garner the attention they deserve. Ohio State is no slouch. But here’s the difference: Duke has championship pedigree and there’s something to be said for that experience. Even though many of those players have since…